An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.R. PanHigh School Little, Brown 400 pp. g4/22 978-0-316-46405-5 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-316-46404-8 $9.99High school seniors Luna Chang and Hunter Yee keep crossing paths, and they soon realize that they both have bizarre abilities. Luna can attract fish and fireflies; Hunter has perfect aim,...
Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee Intermediate, Middle School Random 288 pp. g 2/22 978-1-9848-3025-8 $16.99 Library ed. 978-1-9848-3026-5 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-9848-3028-9 $9.99 Eleven-year-old Maizy and her mother leave fast-paced Los Angeles to spend the summer in languorous Last Chance, Minnesota. Oma and Opa, Maizy’s grandparents, own Golden...
The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore High School Feiwel 320 pp. g 3/21 978-1-250-62412-3 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-62413-0 $10.99 In this story that blends realism and fairy tale, McLemore (Blanca & Roja, rev. 11/18) introduces readers to a sweet, warm young woman making her way through trauma. Ciela is La...
Walk Toward the Rising Sun: From Child Soldier to Ambassador of Peace by Ger Duany with Garen Thomas High School Make Me a World/Random 320 pp. g 9/20 978-1-5247-1940-1 $18.99 Library ed. 978-1-5247-1941-8 $21.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5247-1942-5 $11.99 In this vivid memoir, Duany recounts his experience as a Lost Boy....
My Heart Underwater by Laurel Flores Fantauzzo High School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 320 pp. g 10/20 978-0-06-297228-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-297230-9 $9.99 After seventeen-year-old Cory’s mother witnesses a kiss between her and her long-term substitute teacher, twenty-five-year-old Ms. Holden, she sends Cory to spend two months in Quezon City in the...
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas High School Swoon/Feiwel 352 pp. g 9/20 978-1-250-25046-9 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-25051-3 $9.99 Unlike the rest of his family, Yadriel is kept from having a quinces, the traditional coming-of-age ceremony to become a brujo. Yadriel is trans and gay, i.e., “Head Black Sheep among the...