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"Lilico's life in Japan is going well. She has great friends and is the captain of the school's basketball team. She's happy! Then comes her parents' news: they're moving to America! Before she knows it, Lilico finds herself forced to start all over. And that won't be easy with her closest friends thousands of miles away or a school bully who immediately dislikes her. Luckily, anime-loving Nala and Henry eventually befriend Lilico and with help from them--along with her guardian spirit who looks a lot like her cat, Nico--Lilico just might figure out where she fits in"--Provided by publisher.

"There's nothing Kate loves more than being around horses. But her best friend is allergic to them, so Kate has to take riding lessons without her. Kate's forced to navigate some of life's hardships--like the mean girls at the stable who tease her and her body insecurities--all on her own. To make matters worse, Kate is continually falling off her horse. To Kate, her tween years feel like one unfair punishment after another. Can she get over it all . . . and get back on her horse?"--Back cover.

Aiko Cassidy, a fourteen-year-old with cerebral palsy, tired of posing for the sculptures that have made her mother famous, dreams of going to Japan to meet her father and become a great manga artist, but takes a life-changing trip to Paris, instead.

"At first, Jo and Rus don't realize how much they have in common--she's a middle schooler who's constantly bullied and he's a high schooler in a rock band. But when a mysterious one-eyed cat brings the two of them together, they quickly learn they're both outcasts trying to figure out what they really want from life in a world where the odds are stacked against them. It's only by becoming friends they discover who they are, who they want to be and what it takes for every one of us to find our own happiness!"--Back cover.

Presents a collection of coming-of-age poetry that explores race, feminism, and queer identity.

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

Collects two love novels in which two very different girls search for their own identities and long for romance. One has it all, seemingly, until an unexpected romance makes her question everything she believes in; the other is hiding a secret, one that will destroy her own illusions and force her to listen to the truths of others in her life.

Each year, the people of the Protectorate think they must sacrifice an infant to Xan, the witch who lives in the forest. Xan finds the abandoned babies and feels sorry for them, feeding them starlight and delivering them to good homes on the other side of the forest. One year, though, she accidentally gives one baby moonlight, which imbues her with magic. Xan and her friends, Glerk the wise swamp monster and Fyrian, a tiny dragon, decide to raise baby Luna by themselves. However, just as Luna's magic is emerging at her thirteenth birthday, Xan goes to gather the next baby at the same time a young man arrives to kill the witch and end the sacrifices. Glerk and Fyrian try to save Xan, but it is up to Luna to protect those who raised her.

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.