In this comedic, coming-of-age novel, Millie’s finally growing up. After crushing on Rory Calhoun for what seems like an eternity, she’s ready to move on to her first real crush - a cute boy in her social studies class called Scott Fenwick.
Bluma Tishgarten, Felix Goldberg, and the rest of the Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany’s cruel ideals had no way of knowing that their humanity was about to be stripped from them as Adolf Hitler rose to power. They had no reason to believe the unbelievable - that there would be times when they’d be treated worse than dogs, in conditions like living death - because it just seemed impossible that anyone’s moral compass could be disrupted so easily.
Jiho, Camelia, Jordan, Ravi, Ava are five teens who never expected to walk into a science expo and walk out with powers. Five teens who never, not even in their wildest daydreams, saw themselves as anything close to dangerous. And they certainly never expected to be hunted down by NOVA, a reclusive organization which seems to be hiding a secret. Tensions heighten even further in the group when they discover that their powers play a part in an experiment that seeks to make them into weapons.
Nitasha is struggling and no one else can see it - not her Indian parents whose only wish is for her to be an obedient daughter nor her best friend Ava who seems to trust the new girl more than Nitasha. She doesn't fit in, whether at school where she's one of the only Indian kids or at home, where she knows she could never measure up to her perfect doctor brother. Alcohol dulls the knowledge that Nitasha is everything but enough, and eventually so does cutting. And all it takes is one viral video, one dark, lonely night for everything to go from bad to worse.
Among waves of worldwide anti-semitism, mass displacement, and the general ordeal of World War 2, there is Max, pre-teen genius and Jewish refugee. Accompanied by a kobold and a dybbuk called Berg and Stein, he’s forced to escape Nazi-infested Germany and stay with the Montagu family in England. But even as Max settles into this strange, foreign life, even enjoys it at times, the undeniable truth is still there: he misses German and more than that, his parents. So when he sees an opportunity to change that, he, of course, leaps at it.
Lotus keeps too many secrets for her own good. Secrets that she could never tell her parents about, secrets that would destroy her if they ever came out, destroy everything she loves. And so it happens that she's being threatened with one of those secrets. When her best friend Nova offers her the chance to join her and their friend, Vin, on a week-long getaway, she agrees. All they're going to be doing is focusing on their upcoming exams, with no devices, no link to the world outside. In a farmhouse miles away from the nearest town, what's going to happen?
