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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Aza Wu knows that casting magic can kill--it killed her sister--but she needs money desperately to pay off Saint Willow, who controls her sector of Lotusland, and save the family teahouse, so she secretly enters an underground casting tournament--and finds herself competing against other castors with "full magic," and where even victory could cause her to lose her freedom, her magic, and her life.
If the magic doesn't kill her, the truth just might....
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Marsden yearns to take her sister and escape Glory, a town famous for seedy businesses and suicides, but her friendship with Jude yields secrets that may chain them to the Indigo River forever.
The town of Glory is famous for two things: businesses that front for seedy, if not illegal, enterprises and the suicides that happen along the Indigo River. Marsden is desperate to escape the {28}bed-and-breakfast
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Astrid Xu stumbles upon an ancient Chinese scroll that she hopes is the key to curing her mother's depression, but when it transports her and her younger sister Marilla to a realm where Chinese legends are real, they suddenly find themselves caught in a war between good and evil.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sometimes, home isnt where you expect to find it. After losing his mom in a fatal car crash, Kaede Hirano--now living with a grandfather who is more stranger than family--developed anger issues and spent his last year of middle school acting out. Best-friendless and critically in danger repeating the seventh grade, Kaede is given a summer assignment: write an essay about what home means to him, which will be even tougher now that he's on his way...
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An anthology of short stories exploring interracial and other relationships, in which differences are front and center, but may or may not matter.
An anthology of YA stories that explores the complexity and beauty of interracial and LGBTQ+ relationships. They're about how being different from the person you love can matter but how it can also not matter. They're about handling relationships where differences are front and center. And they're about...
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen authors of Asian descent reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia, in short stories ranging from fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge.
