domestic fiction

Ruth Devon, a former college basketball star, has a successful career calling games on the radio. She and her ex-husband are famous in sports media. When he retires from announcing NBA games, Ruth, who is currently reporting from the sidelines of the NBA Finals, decides to go for his job and possibly become the first woman to call NBA games on national television. Then Ruth makes a discovery that changes everything and forces her to chose between her career in sports broadcasting and motherhood.

After giving up her dreams of becoming a professional photographer, high school senior Kenzie Reed tries to appease her parents by taking an interest in the family optometry business and making up a fake boyfriend named Jacob Miller. She learns on their family's trip to Hawaii that her parents have invited her "boyfriend" Jacob along. Playing along with the ruse, Kenzie gets to know the stranger they've invited while exploring the sights and allure of Hawaii, soon realizing their lie may be true love.

Hispanic American Latina teen Andre?a Herna?ndez-Baldoqui?n has a secret--her family comes from a long line of spies working for the international organization known as the Factory, dedicated to protecting people of color around the world. Andre?a's first solo mission is coming up, but she never imagined it would involve disguising herself as a white girl and befriending the son of a white supremacist.

Saba's father Irakli takes him and his older brother Sandro away from the fighting in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to safety in England. Now, two decades later, the men are haunted by the homeland and family they left behind. When Irakli returns to Georgia and then disappears, Saba sets out on a journey to retrace his father's steps and learn the truth about what happened.

Camila tries out for a play and is disappointed not to get the leading role. However, she works hard with the cast and learns that she can still be a star.

Camila dreams of being a star and, after learning about children who break world records, decides she will do the same--but how? Includes glossary, glossary of Spanish words, activities, and discussion questions.

After going to work with her mom, a landscape architect, Nina Soni wants to plant a garden of her own. Soon, she comes up with an idea to start a business selling the vegetables they'll grow in the garden, but things start to go sideways when she finds out that gardening is harder than she thought. With the help of her friends and family, Nina learns show to deal with rabbits, mosquitos, birds, and Japanese beetles.

Nina's new friends Priya and Nayan have just moved to Wisconsin from Florida, and they've never experienced snow before, so she can't wait to introduce them to all sorts of winter activities like snowball fights, snow angels, and building a snow fort. But when Nina notices a strange car parked outside her neighbors' house while they're out of town, she decides it's time to become a Snow Spy and discover the identity of the mysterious person.

After the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, the dictator Castro solidifies power in Cuba, and twelve-year-old Cumba is sent to live in Florida to escape becoming a child soldier. Cumba struggles to feel at home in the United States, missing his family--who are only ninety miles away--and wonders if he will ever see them again.

After meeting his mysterious aunt Pilate, whom his father warns is a bad influence, a young African-American man named Macon "Milkman" Dead III leaves his rich, cold home in 1950s Michigan in search of his roots.