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Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep, he feels as if he is constantly swimming in whiteness. Most of the students don't look like him. They don't like him either. Dubbed the "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter skinned brother, Trey. Quiet, obedient.

When an incident with "King" Alan leads to Donte's arrest and suspension, he knows the only way to get even is to beat the king of the school at his own game: fencing. With the help of a former Olympic fencer, Donte embarks on a journey to carve out a spot on Middlefield Prep's fencing team and maybe learn something about himself along the way.

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Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma fighting for his life after an unspecified football injury at training camp. His family and friends flock to his bedside to support his recovery—and to discuss the events leading up to the tragic accident. Was this an inevitable result of playing a
violent sport, or was something more sinister happening on the field that day? Told in an innovative, multimedia format combining dialogue, texts, newspaper articles, transcripts, an online forum, and Teddy’s inner thoughts, Game Changer explores the joyous thrills and terrifying risks of America’s most popular sport.

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Wherever the sharks went, Lucy Everhart’s marine-biologist mother was sure to follow. In fact, she was on a boat far off the coast of Massachusetts, preparing to swim with a Great White, when she died suddenly. Lucy was eight. Since then Lucy and her father have done OK—thanks in large part to her best friend, Fred, and a few close friends and neighbors. But June of her twelfth summer brings more than the end of school and a heat wave to sleepy Rockport. On one steamy day, the tide brings a Great White—and then another tragedy, cutting short a friendship everyone insists was “meaningful” but no one can tell Lucy what it all meant. To survive the fresh wave of grief, Lucy must grab the line that connects her depressed father, a stubborn fisherman, and a curious old widower to her mother’s unfinished research. If Lucy can find a way to help this unlikely quartet follow the sharks her mother loved, she’ll finally be able to look beyond what she’s lost and toward what’s left to be discovered.

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Real life isn't a fairytale.

But Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tiến, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through?

Is there a way to tell them he's gay?

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This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school bus falling from the sky. But no one saw it happen. They were all too busy—

Talking about boogers.
Stealing pocket change.
Skateboarding.
Wiping out.
Braving up.
Executing complicated handshakes.
Planning an escape.
Making jokes.
Lotioning up.
Finding comfort.
But mostly, too busy walking home.

Jason Reynolds conjures ten tales (one per block) about what happens after the dismissal bell rings, and brilliantly weaves them into one wickedly funny, piercingly poignant look at the detours we face on the walk home, and in life.

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Dad always said if things get desperate, it’s okay to drink the water in the toilet. I never thought it would come to that. I thought I’d sooner die than let one drop of toilet water touch my lips. Yet here I am, kneeling before a porcelain throne, holding a tin mug for scooping in one hand, and my half-gallon canteen in the other.

The Lockwood brothers are supposed to be able to survive anything. Their dad, a hardcore survivalist, has stockpiled enough food and water on their isolated Nevada ranch to last for months. But when they are robbed at gunpoint during a massive blackout while their dad is out of town, John and Stew must walk 96 miles in the stark desert sun to get help--and they have only 3 days before their time runs out....

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Fourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brussels, Belgium, Ahmed fled a life of uncertainty and suffering in Aleppo, Syria, only to lose his father on the perilous journey to the shores of Europe. Now Ahmed’s struggling to get by on his own, but with no one left to trust and nowhere to go, he’s starting to lose hope.

Then he meets Max, a thirteen-year-old American boy from Washington, D.C. Lonely and homesick, Max is struggling at his new school and just can’t seem to do anything right. But with one startling discovery, Max and Ahmed’s lives collide and a friendship begins to grow. Together, Max and Ahmed will defy the odds, learning from each other what it means to be brave and how hope can change your destiny.

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The letter waits in a book, in a box, in an attic, in an old house in Lambert, South Carolina. It's waiting for Candice Miller.

When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes a young woman named Siobhan Washington. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter-writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. Grandma tried and failed. But now Candice has another chance.

So with the help of Brandon Jones, the quiet boy across the street, she begins to decipher the clues in the letter. The challenge will lead them deep into Lambert's history, full of ugly deeds, forgotten heroes, and one great love; and deeper into their own families, with their own unspoken secrets. Can they find the fortune and fulfill the letter's promise before the summer ends?

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Clara Evans is horrified when she discovers her principal’s “prohibited media” hit list. The iconic books on the list have been pulled from the library and aren’t allowed anywhere on the school’s premises. Students caught with the contraband will be sternly punished.

Many of these stories have changed Clara’s life, so she’s not going to sit back and watch while her draconian principal abuse his power. She’s going to strike back.

So Clara starts an underground library in her locker, doing a shady trade in titles like Speak and The Chocolate War. But when one of the books she loves most is connected to a tragedy she never saw coming, Clara’s forced to face her role in it.

Will she be able to make peace with her conflicting feelings, or is fighting for this noble cause too tough for her to bear?

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The year is 1946, and the Lee family has moved from Chinatown to Downtown Metropolis. While Dr. Lee is eager to begin his new position at the Metropolis Health Department, his two kids, Roberta and Tommy, are more excited about being closer to the famous superhero Superman!

Tommy adjusts quickly to the fast pace of their new neighborhood, befriending Jimmy Olsen and joining the club baseball team, while his younger sister Roberta feels out of place when she fails to fit in with the neighborhood kids. She's awkward, quiet, and self-conscious of how she looks different from the kids around her, so she sticks to watching people instead of talking to them.

While the Lees try to adjust to their new lives, an evil is stirring in Metropolis: the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan targets the Lee family, beginning a string of terrorist attacks. They kidnap Tommy, attack the Daily Planet, and even threaten the local YMCA. But with the help of Roberta's keen skills of observation, Superman is able to fight the Klan's terror, while exposing those in power who support them--and Roberta and Superman learn to embrace their own unique features that set them apart.

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Book Talk of Black Brother, Black Brother by the Author!

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Book Talk of Black Brother, Black Brother by the Author!

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Introducing... Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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The Line Tender by Kate Allen book trailer

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Book Trailer For Superman Smashes the Clan

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Superman Smashes the Klan | Official Trailer

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Home (PoF) - Children's Fiction by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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The Louisiana Girls Trilogy are stories of young girls coming of age and finding the strength to overcome adversity. They are steeped in the folklore of the deep south of America and are hugely popular with young readers.

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Tommy Greenwald - a shrine to everything me

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Caleb Springer is the up-and-coming star freshman quarterback on the high school football team, which isn't a surprise considering his dad, Sammy Springer, was an NFL superstar and is now the town celebrity. College scouts are already snooping around Caleb, and his future seems set.

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Heartbreaking but also filled with wit and hope, The Line Tender is the story of Lucy, the daughter of a marine biologist and a rescue diver, and the summer that changes her life. If she ever wants to lift the cloud of grief over her family and community, she must complete the research her late mother began. She must follow the sharks.

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Heartbreaking but also filled with wit and hope, The Line Tender is the story of Lucy, the daughter of a marine biologist and a rescue diver, and the summer that changes her life. If she ever wants to lift the cloud of grief over her family and community, she must complete the research her late mother began.

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Trung Le Nguyen, also known as Trungles, is a comic book artist and illustrator working out of Minnesota. He received his BA from Hamline University in 2012, majoring in Studio Art with a concentration...

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Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of many award-winning books, including Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks and more.

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JL Esplin is a writer of books for kids and teens. She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband and kids. Her first middle grade novel, 96 Miles, will be out February 11, 2020, from Starscape (Tor/Macmillan). She is represented by Andrea Somberg, literary agent at Harvey Klinger Inc..

For inquires, please contact Andrea Somberg at andrea@harveyklinger.com
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JL Esplin lived in four different states by the time she turned 13. As an adult, she moved back to the place she was born, Las Vegas, Nevada, and immediately knew she was home. She lives on the edge of town with her husband and kids. When not writing, she enjoys teaching guitar the fun way, traveling to new places, and coming back home to the desert.

Growing up in a family of six kids, her dad, a US Secret Service agent, was passionate about emergency preparedness. They had food and water storage that took up half the garage, emergency backpacks with survival gear in the hall closet. And the family slept soundly each night knowing that, in the event of a house fire, Dad had secured a rope to the foot of each bed with which they could escape their second-story bedroom windows. It was important to him that his kids were self-reliant, and on that note, he gave her and her siblings a survival tip that she never forgot: If you're ever in a desperate situation, it's okay to drink the water in the toilet, you just have to boil it first.

After years spent contemplating this revolting bit of advice, imagining scenarios in which she might have to drink toilet water, wondering if she'd be willing to do something like that to survive, she sat down and wrote the first sentence of her debut novel, 96 Miles.

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JL Esplin is a writer of books for kids and teens. She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband and kids. Her first middle grade novel, 96 Miles, will be out February 11, 2020, from Starscape (Tor/Macmillan). She is represented by Andrea Somberg, literary agent at Harvey Klinger Inc..

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Katherine Marsh is an award-winning author of books for children and young adults including Nowhere Boy, winner of the Middle East Book Award; The Night Tourist, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery; Jepp, Who Defied the Stars, a New York Times Notable; and The Door By The Staircase, a Junior Library Guild selection.A former journalist and managing editor of The New Republic, Katherine spent three years in Brussels, Belgium with her family and flock of chickens. She now lives in Washington, DC with her husband, two children, two cats, rabbit, and five chickens.

Long version:

I was born in Kingston, New York, a town on the Hudson River, on the same day as Leonardo DiCaprio (we're Scorpios). My parents, an artist/videographer and a stay-at-home mom, didn't have much money but we always had books; Mother Goose and the Little Bear stories with Maurice Sendak's wonderful etchings were some of my favorites.

The summer before I turned five, my parents moved to my grandmother's house in Yonkers, New York, a suburb a half-hour by train to Grand Central Terminal. Growing up as an only child, I spent a lot of time listening to my grandmother's stories about the Russian/Ukrainian bar in the East Village she had run with my late grandfather. Three out of four of my grandparents were immigrants. Two of them travelled to America alone; one was just seventeen at the time.

I went to the same public elementary school for seven years. In first grade, I started off in the lowest reading group, was small for my age, shy, and sometimes fell out of my chair. But in second grade, my teacher encouraged me to write poetry and I started to love school, especially reading and creative writing. When I was ten, my parents separated and later divorced. Books were my escape (they still are). I particularly liked survival stories such as Island of the Blue Dolphins.

In seventh grade, my parents sent me to a private school in New York City. Middle school was predictably awful: I had big blue glasses, braces, and was still so tiny that on my first day a staff member tried to send me to the elementary school. But I had a great English teacher who introduced me to weird, wonderful writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, and J.D. Salinger. For my last two years of high school, I switched to a boarding school so I could study Russian. I was even able to spend a semester at a high school in the Soviet Union (yes, I am that old).

After studying English at Yale, I spent a year as a high school English teacher before becoming a journalist. My first job was at Good Housekeeping where I kept the messiest desk in the history of the magazine. (I continue to be extremely messy.) Over the next decade, I worked for Rolling Stone, The Washington City Paper, and The New Republic, where I was managing editor, editing stories about politics and world affairs.

How did I become a children's writer? On September 11, 2001, I was living in New York City; a few months later, the grandmother who helped raise me died. I found an outlet for my grief and anxiety in writing. My first book was never published. My second book became The Night Tourist, which won the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery. Writing is a journey. It doesn't always work out. The only thing under your control is your own perseverance.

Besides writing, I like to read, cook for friends and family, travel, try to improve my French and Russian, ride my bike, take photos, and visit off-beat museums. Most of all, I like to spend time with my family. I met my husband on a blind date in New York City. In 2015, after thirteen years in Washington, D.C. we moved to Brussels, Belgium, an experience that inspired Nowhere Boy. We are now back in Washington, DC and are the proud parents of two bilingual children, two Belgian-American cats, a rabbit and five chickens.

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About Katherine Marsh, author of books for children and young adults

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Katherine Marsh is an award-winning author of books for children and young adults including Nowhere Boy, winner of the Middle East Book Award; The Night Tourist, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery; Jepp, Who Defied the Stars, a New York Times Notable; and The Door By The Staircase, a Junior Library Guild selection.A former journalist and managing editor of The New Republic, Katherine spent three years in Brussels, Belgium with her family and flock of chickens.

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Varian Johnson is the author of several novels for children and young adults, including The Parker Inheritance, which won both Coretta Scott King Author Honor and Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor awards; The Great Greene Heist, an ALA Notable Children’s book and Kirkus Reviews Best Book; and the graphic…

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Little Eva is a budding engineer who loves to invent machines, toys, and robots that bring her joy. But where does her curiosity, creativity, and pizzazz come from? Meet God. He loves to invent, too, and delights in His creations, especially Eva.

God and Eva are A LOT alike because God made Eva to be just like Him.

Eva loves her inventions, but maybe not their earlier versions. God loves Eva, every version of her, and He wants her to know just how much. Parents and children alike will relish the playful illustrations and the gentle reminder that the image of God is alive in each of us.

The story of Eva

Sometime last year I found an illustrator named Amy Domingo scrolling around on Instagram and fell in love with her illustrations. After putting the phone down, I couldn't stop thinking about her illustrations. That night, after reading some books to my kids before bedtime I thought, "you know? I've never read A picture book about Jesus that was funny. God loves humor. He freaking created a platypus."

So I wrote a funny Jesus picture book and then pitched it to internet stranger/illustrator, Amy. She told me she'd been wanting to illustrate a children's book and praying for the opportunity (first Jesus moment). She said "let's do it" and we tackled the first challenge, finding a literary agent who wanted to represent a funny Jesus picture book.

After researching for a few weeks, I found one agent who specifically said she was looking for a funny Jesus picture book so i felt that the margin of error on the query was very low, no pressure! I queried Adria Goetz and she responded pretty quickly with a "Let's go!" (Second Jesus moment)

We revised, Amy illustrated, and we subbed to some places. Pretty quickly, the fine folks at WaterBrook & Multnomah (a Penguin/Random House imprint) said "oooohhh, we like. Let's talk." (Third Jesus moment)

Fast forward a buncha months and a pandemic and I finally get to announce that our picture book, The Inventions of God (and Eva) is coming to a book near you Fall 2021 with a second coming sometime in 2022 (assuming the world is still around then).

P.S. For readers who've been with me for my YA asking, "but what about YA?" I'm going to be working on a new YA in the next few months, so don't worry.

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Little Eva is a budding engineer who loves to invent machines, toys, and robots that bring her joy. But where does her curiosity, creativity, and pizzazz come from? Meet God. He loves to invent, too, and delights in His creations, especially Eva. God and Eva are A LOT alike because God made Eva to be just like Him.

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The year is 1946, and the Lee family has moved from Metropolis' Chinatown to the center of the bustling city. While Dr. Lee is greeted warmly in his new position at the Metropolis Health Department, [...]