Sterling, Zack

Filipino American siblings JJ and Althea struggle to belong in school and clash over the best way to be accepted. They both agree that working long hours at their family's food truck, listening to their mother's stories about Filipino folklore, doesn't seem to help their situation. However, when the creatures from their mother's tales suddenly appear and threaten their family's livelihood, the two must band together and embrace who they are if they are to save their family.

"First-generation Filipino siblings JJ and Althea struggle to belong at school. JJ wants to fit in with the crowd, while Althea wants to be accepted as she is. But that hope seems like a long shot, for both of them. To make matters worse, they have to help their parents run the family food truck by dressing up as a dancing pig and passing out samples. Ugh! And their mom is always pointing out lessons from Filipino folklore -- annoying tales they've heard again and again. But when witches, ogres, and other creatures from those same stories threaten their family, JJ and Althea realize that the folklore may be more real that they'd suspected. Can they embrace who they really are and save their family?--Jacket flap.

"Young orphan Pitch is an aspiring tournament fighter who has big dreams of traveling to the city and competing in the Wide Plains Fighting Tournament. He also harbors a secret wish-to be trained by aging tournament fighter Sonny Chan. Can Pitch make it in a big city filled with unsavory types that want to do him harm? And is Emperor Vergil, host of the fighting tournament, one of those people? Will Sonny decide to act decent...for once? Find out in this exciting blast of battle energy!".