Kao’s feelings for Nagisa grow deeper at the culture festival. When Kiryu-kun sees Kao like that, he declares war on Kuze-kun! As the day of the match approaches, Nagisa also makes a resolution… Will a big change come to this heart-throbbing love triangle? And has a new rival for Kao made an entrance?! Both love and club activities are heating up!! Volume 6, where everybody is serious!

During summer vacation, Kao is touched for the first time by Kuze-kun at their part-time cafe job. The two become closer and closer, but when summer’s over, there’s more happiness to come!! The school festival and club activities take place during the second semester… and Kuze-kun wants to do his best to…? Watching the two of them, it seems as if Kiryu-kun also goes into serious mode?!

Asahi tells Kao about his true feelings. On the other hand, Nagisa, who’s become aware of his feelings for Kao, suddenly surprises Kao with a confession at the end of the tournament? And what about Asahi, who lost out…? Young love filled with sparkling moments, a full volume of emotions!

Kao is a high school girl who wants to shine like other students. Every day, she does her job of managing the boys’ volleyball team with the support of club members Kuze-kun and Kiryu-kun. In the meantime, she can’t help coming to like Kuze-kun, though she never knows whether he’s joking or serious. One day, he suddenly calls her out after an important game, and her heart starts pounding! Drawn by Haruka Mitsui, the story of a dazzling after school romance! Kuze-kun's popularity is exploding!

From the author and illustrator of Our Class is a Family, this touching picture book expresses a teacher's sentiments and well wishes on the last day of school. Serving as a follow up to the letter in A Letter From Your Teacher: On the First Day of School, it's a read aloud for teachers to bid a special farewell to their students at the end of the school year. Through a letter written from the teacher's point of view, the class is invited to reflect back on memories made, connections formed, and challenges met. The letter expresses how proud their teacher is of them, and how much they will be missed. Students will also leave on that last day knowing that their teacher is cheering them on for all of the exciting things to come in the future. There is a blank space on the last page for teachers to sign their own name, so that students know that the letter in the book is coming straight from them. With its sincere message and inclusive illustrations, A Letter From Your Teacher: On the Last Day of School is a valuable addition to any elementary school teacher's classroom library.

It was once said that the hood was a deadly battlefield where only the strongest survive. Leilani Vasquez has had her fair share of fights being born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Her childhood was suffused with drugs and abuse as she was treated as a burden by the very woman who brought her into the world. Love eludes their home once Leilani’s innocence is torn away from her by her mother’s moral less boyfriend. Showing no mercy, Leilani is forced to grow up fast when she becomes pregnant with her stepfather’s child, along with a drug habit that she cannot kick. Events transpire between the odd family, changing Leilani’s life forever. Twelve years later, she’s a professional hit woman that uses her connections to become one of the leaders of the top drug organizations, The Supremes. Supported by her close friends, Leilani is making a better life for herself. Things go south when reality throws her life into shambles, turning her world upside down. Will Leilani be able to survive this battle, or will she become just another character in a fucked up hood tale?

What is at stake when our young people attempt to belong to a college environment that reflects a world that does not want them for who they are? In this compelling book, Navajo scholar Amanda Tachine takes a personal look at 10 Navajo teenagers, following their experiences during their last year in high school and into their first year in college. It is common to think of this life transition as a time for creating new connections to a campus community, but what if there are systemic mechanisms lurking in that community that hurt Native students' chances of earning a degree? Tachine describes these mechanisms as systemic monsters and shows how campus environments can be sites of harm for Indigenous students due to factors that she terms monsters' sense of belonging, namely assimilating, diminishing, harming the worldviews of those not rooted in White supremacy, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, racism, and Indigenous erasure. This book addresses the nature of those monsters and details the Indigenous weapons that students use to defeat them. Rooted in love, life, sacredness, and sovereignty, these weapons reawaken students' presence and power. Book Features: Introduces an Indigenous methodological approach called story rug that demonstrates how research can be expanded to encompass all our senses. Weaves together Navajo youths' stories of struggle and hope in educational settings, making visible systemic monsters and Indigenous weaponry. Draws from Navajo knowledge systems as an analytic tool to connect history to present and future realities. Speaks to the contemporary situation of Native peoples, illuminating the challenges that Native students face in making the transition to college. Examines historical and contemporary realities of Navajo systemic monsters, such as the financial hardship monster, deficit (not enough) monster, failure monster, and (in)visibility monster. Offers insights for higher education institutions that are seeking ways to create belonging for diverse students.