Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood with Greg Dawson is a novel about the Holocaust told in verse and organized into seven parts. The story rings with Zhanna’s love for her Ukrainian homeland, 为她失去的家人感到悲伤, and fury for both Stalin and the Nazis. The story opens with the insatiable curiosity of Zhanna Arshanskaya, a born explorer. 直到1935年, 詹娜和她的妹妹, 皮肤利什曼病, 在别尔江斯克过着甜蜜的生活, 乌克兰, 坐落在亚速海附近. When Stalin begins to devour their country and imposes “death by hunger,” the family is forced to seek refuge in阅读更多→

12年前, Frances Frida Ripley (aka Frankie) was born near the sea during a storm, 这似乎在她身上留下了印记, making her prone to volatility and moodiness. She is often impatient with her six-year-old sister, Birdie, and temperamental with her parents. 鉴于她的情绪爆发, Frankie has grown accustomed to her father’s admonishment: “Shouting creates negative energy and harmful interpersonal toxicity. 此外,它还会扰乱我们的头脑。”. Frankie is frustrated by how adults always try to sort out or tidy up feelings, putting labels on them or nudging them into another shape. When Frankie doesn’t get her way, she rages. 她的父母阅读更多→

以巴黎为背景, 肯塔基州, 凯瑟琳·奥姆斯比的《皇冠登录welcome》 is a queer coming-of-age story about Cline Louise Alden. Alden ladies have music in their marrow, and according to Cline’s Gram, music is medicine. 十三岁的克莱因, who plays her secondhand guitar with finesse, imagines herself in Nashville singing her heart out at the Ryman Auditorium, 大奥普里剧院的所在地. If knowing better means keeping quiet when a good song is on the radio, 克莱恩乐于保持无知.  For as long as she can remember, she has dreamed of making it big as a singer/songwriter. Cline gets the chance to be noticed for阅读更多→

Despite the prologue, this graphic novel (Messy Roots by Laura Gao) isn’t about the pandemic. The beautiful color pages of the first chapter describe what this book is really about: freedom and roots. Two concepts that can seem like opposites but that blend together in a beautiful combination in this book. Opening her story with her childhood in Wuhan, Gao makes it easy to see how different her adolescence in Texas is from her early years. As a child transplanted to the US at a young age, Gao quickly learns the importance of fitting in. She changes her Chinese name for the American “Laura” and阅读更多→

但丁·美得玛没有找到的信息 is a romantic mystery that keeps the reader intrigued with every turn of the page. Medema tells the story of two “ride or die” friends: Vanessa Carson and 贝利 Pierce. A lover of Disney princesses and blue raspberry flavored Pop Rocks, Vanessa dreams of being a writer someday. 贝利, 另一方面, hopes to follow in her parents’ footsteps to work in computer coding and artificial intelligence. 一天晚上, the girls trade Pop Rocks therapy for champagne drinking and ice cream eating as they share secrets and commiserate about boys and 贝利’s breakup. 当瓦内萨收到一条短信阅读更多→

With themes and a style similar to the stories penned by Lemony Snicket, Rex Ogle writes a mystery featuring the unfortunate events of Will Hunter in The 超自然的 Society. In what hints at a series, this installment is narrated by a monster. When Will Hunter’s dad abandons his family, mother and son are forced to move from Brooklyn, 纽约, 到东爱默生, 麻萨诸塞州, where Will’s mother secures a job as a nurse. Sixth grader Will hates that he has no choice in this “fresh start” his mother describes. His only solace is in his Saint Bernard, Fitz, a Christmas gift from his father years阅读更多→

Readers of Sarah Dessen and Kasie West will likely enjoy This Might Get Awkward by Kara McDowell. 设置页面, 亚利桑那州, McDowell’s novel tells the story of Gemma Wells, who finds social situations awkward and awful and who—of her own admission—doesn’t know how to have fun. Despite her challenges to conquer her social anxiety disorder (SAD), Gemma can’t just “suck it up.” So, when her favorite beach is overtaken by a teen party at the end of the school year, 她的幻想开始高速运转. Beau Booker, captain of the swim team and the most popular person at Page High, is in attendance. 只是阅读更多→

Many readers have found fictional worlds fascinating; some of us might even wonder what it would be like to live in such an alternate reality. Adelle Casey and Connie Rollins have been enamored by the Victorian era novel Moira by Robin Amery for years. Although Adelle is attracted to the esoteric and the occult, Connie is much more practical. With a heart as big as her fanciful imagination, Adelle tends to be in love with the worlds found in books rather than with the world going by all around her. 结果是, her interests lean towards topics like astrology, 塔罗牌, 向导, 吸血鬼, 狼人, or阅读更多→