When Stars Come Out
Title | When Stars Come Out PDF eBook |
Author | Scarlett St. Clair |
Publisher | Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2022-07-26 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0991132351 |
From the brilliant mind of A Touch of Darkness's bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair comes a YA crossover in a darkly unique fantasy world. Anora Silby can see the dead and turn spirits into gold coins, two things she would prefer to keep secret as she tries to lead a normal life at her new school. After all, she didn't change her identity for nothing. Hiding her weirdness is just one of many challenges. By the end of her first day, she's claimed the soul of a dead girl on campus and lost the coin. Turns out, the coin gives others the ability to steal souls, and when a classmate ends up dead, there's no mistaking the murder weapon. Navigating the loss of her Poppa, the mistrust of her mother, the attention of gorgeous and enigmatic Shy, and Roundtable, an anonymous student gossip app threatening to expose her, are hard enough. Now she must find the person who stole her coin before more lives are lost, but that means making herself a target for the Order, an organization that governs the dead on Earth—and they want Anora and her powers for themselves.
Watch the Stars Come Out
Title | Watch the Stars Come Out PDF eBook |
Author | Riki Levinson |
Publisher | Turtleback |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780785756514 |
Grandma tells about her mama's journey to America by boat, years ago
Why Do Stars Come Out at Night?
Title | Why Do Stars Come Out at Night? PDF eBook |
Author | Annalena McAfee |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Children's questions and answers |
ISBN | 0099264560 |
A young boy asks his grandfather questions about life and nature, and gets some humorous answers.
When Stars Are Scattered
Title | When Stars Are Scattered PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Jamieson |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2020-04-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0525553924 |
A National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl. Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, the only family member he has left, every day. Heartbreak, hope, and gentle humor exist together in this graphic novel about a childhood spent waiting, and a young man who is able to create a sense of family and home in the most difficult of settings. It's an intimate, important, unforgettable look at the day-to-day life of a refugee, as told to New York Times Bestselling author/artist Victoria Jamieson by Omar Mohamed, the Somali man who lived the story.
Mira Como Salen Las Estrellas
Title | Mira Como Salen Las Estrellas PDF eBook |
Author | Riki Levinson |
Publisher | Turtleback |
Pages | |
Release | 1995-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780785756521 |
A little red-haired girl curls up by her grandmother to hear how, long ago, another little girl and her brother crossed the Atlantic and came to America.
She's Come Undone
Title | She's Come Undone PDF eBook |
Author | Wally Lamb |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 517 |
Release | 2012-12-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1471105342 |
Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the chocolate, crisps and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up. In his extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch an incredible ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. At once a fragile girl and a hard-edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably loveable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections.
All This Could Be Different
Title | All This Could Be Different PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Thankam Mathews |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2023-08-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0593489144 |
2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Harper's Bazaar, and more “One of the buzziest, most human novels of the year…breathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful.” —Vogue “Dazzling and wholly original...[written] with such mordant wit, insight, and specificity, it feels like watching a new literary star being born in real time.” —Entertainment Weekly From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself—a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first century America Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She’s moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, grueling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women—soon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach. But before long, trouble arrives. Painful secrets rear their heads; jobs go off the rails; evictions loom. Sneha struggles to be truly close and open with anybody, even as her friendships deepen, even as she throws herself headlong into a dizzying romance with Marina. It’s then that Tig begins to draw up a radical solution to their problems, hoping to save them all. A beautiful and capacious novel rendered in singular, unforgettable prose, All This Could Be Different is a wise, tender, and riveting group portrait of young people forging love and community amidst struggle, and a moving story of one immigrant’s journey to make her home in the world.