Seventeen-year-old Rico Danger is of exotic mixed parentage. She is, by her classmates’ evaluation, a stunning beauty, though she is unaware of it. Her clothes come from thrift shops. She has no friends and keeps to herself to hide her… Read More ›
Crown Books for Young Readers
The Truth about Martians
Life seems really hard for 11-year-old Mylo, who sleeps in a room with an empty bed where his brother used to be. It even seems to him that there is grayness around his dad, who doesn’t play ball with him… Read More ›
Odd One Out
Courtney (“Coop”) is a heterosexual high school junior who lives with his widowed mother. Next door is his best friend Jupiter (“Jupe”), a girl living with her two dads–her biological dad and a step-dad who left a wife and children… Read More ›
Aftermath
What becomes of the families of school shooters once judgments are passed and the perpetrators are either dead or convicted and imprisoned? What happens when innocent family members end up sharing blame for the event? Can families be faulted… Read More ›
My So-Called Bollywood Life
Winnie and Raj have been devoted to each other for three-and-a-half years, ever since starting high school together in Princeton, NJ. Because Winnie’s parents consulted a pandit who prophesied that she would find her soulmate before her eighteenth birthday and… Read More ›
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