CHILDREN'S
Released: Aug. 1, 2001
"Both controversial and long-awaited, this helps to fill a need that is painfully obvious in YA literature and introduces a wonderful new voice. (Fiction. YA)"
In a love story that breaks the usual rules ("There's two girls and a boy, but they're not in the roles you'd think they'd have"), Ryan has written an almost too-perfect awakening story.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 11, 2001
"Move over, Ya Ya Sisters. (Fiction. YA)"
In this feel-good novel with substance, four teenage girls, friends since they were all born just weeks apart, are about to embark on their first summer as separate young women.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2005
"Teens—gay and straight—will connect. (Fiction. YA)"
Sixteen-year-old Russell and his two best friends, Gunnar and Min, from the Goodkind High School Gay-Straight-Bisexual Alliance sign up to be camp counselors at sleep-away camp.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2006
"Great voice from a very promising debut. (Fiction. YA)"
A tumble of words flows out of Patty Ho as she tries to figure out how to be 15, and half white, half Taiwanese, hapa, says her buddy Jasmine, the "Asian-ator."
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CHILDREN'S
Released: June 1, 2006
"And, where they can bandy ideas back and forth in an unflinching manner without worrying they'll offend each other. (Fiction. YA)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Nov. 1, 2006
"Despite Emily and Lucy being well-defined, Ostow pays little attention to other characters, who fade into the well-drawn Puerto Rican setting. (Fiction. YA)"
Growing up in an affluent New York suburb, Emily Goldberg didn't mind not knowing about her mother's Puerto Rican childhood, but when her family travels to Puerto Rico for her grandmother's funeral, Emily's ignorance is compounded as she is bombarded by unfamiliar relatives, foreign customs and a language she can barely decipher.
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