CHILDREN'S
Released: April 13, 2010
"Both Spanish and urban African-American vernacular dialogue add credibility to this innovative novel that is sure to spark discussion among students who are pondering their options. (Fiction. YA)"
Efrain Rodriguez, on track to be valedictorian at Pedro Albizu Campos High School in the South Bronx, is determined to break the barriers that have kept other low-income students out of ultra-selective universities such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2010
"Hopeful and beautifully strange. (Fantasy. 11-13)"
Fat, poor and intellectually slow, Melanie Tamaki's days are divided between torment at school and her alcoholic mother at home.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2009
"This fantasy heroine, who shows her spunk with quiet self-determination instead of swordfights, headlines an appealing magical adventure set in a refreshingly non-Western milieu. (Fantasy. 12-14)"
Ai Ling wants to be a dutiful daughter, but surely marrying the vile widower Master Huang is a bad idea.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 10, 2009
"It's Me, Margaret and will fill a niche in any school or public library looking to beef up their YA multicultural fiction offerings. (Fiction. 13 & up)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Jan. 1, 2009
"Written with insight, humor and sensitivity, Abdel-Fattah introduces a winning Muslim-Australian heroine who discovers that "honesty is liberating." (Fiction. 12-16)"
A 16-year-old Australian-Muslim-Lebanese teen wonders who she really is as she straddles two cultural realities.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2008
A passionate girl loses her first love but finds community and self in this flashy debut with awkward prose but lots of heart.
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