I Am Not Alone by Francisco X. StorkHigh School    Scholastic    320 pp.7/23    9781338736267    $19.99Eighteen-year-old Alberto lives with his sister, Lupe, and her baby, Chato, in Brooklyn. While studying for his high-school equivalency, he’s working painting houses for Lupe’s sketchy boyfriend and expressing himself creatively at the neighborhood ceramics studio. On...

Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored byIn Disappeared, brother and sister Emiliano, a high school student, and Sara, a young newspaper reporter, respectively, alternate their voices to relate this moral thriller set in...