belonging

Mina is worried about starting a new kindergarten in her new country. The classroom is full of laughter, friendly faces and fun things to do, but the only word Mina can understand is her name. As she listens to stories and songs, chatter and instructions, Mina's understanding steadily grows. She tries out sounds that roar in her throat and tickle her tongue until the new words feel like her own. Then one day, Mina realises that this language now belongs to her, and she belongs to this new world. And she's ready to welcome others in.

Told from three perspectives, outcast Hew and wish-granting canine Orail help seventeen-year-old ?lia through a series of divine Ordeals, but there is more at stake in the kingdom than just ?lia's future, and Orail may be the key to saving them all.

The students of YIKESSS are invited to a dance at the local public school, but they are prohibited from performing any magic or supernatural acts around the humans.

In rural West Virginia, teen anti-fracker Viv discovers an ability to sense forests' energy, a power that becomes heightened the more she interacts with Dex, the new boy in town.

Sophie worries she will not turn into a werewolf on her first night of howlergarten.

Desperate to find a middle haunting ground between her cultures after being told by her ancestors to dress and behave like a good Chinese ghost, Marnie plans a ghastly new look that could either give a fabulous fright or be a grave mistake.

A young indigenous girl explores the ways she is connected to the Earth and to those who came before her.

Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the treasured intergenerational bonds of love and joy that connect everyone everywhere.

Bruce Wayne, the only kid in school without super powers, gets called to the principal because his career choice of vigilantism is deemed too ambitious, and he becomes even more determined to prove he belongs.

"Missing the city life, a young girl starts to feel a sense of belonging in her new town when she discovers vibrant graffiti splashed throughout the neighborhoods, proving street art can be found everywhere--as well as a sense of home"--Provided by publisher.