“Our Wayward Fate,” written by Gloria Chao, is a story about diversity through the eyes of a sixteen year old girl. Ali Chu and her family are a single Asian family who reside in a small town in Indiana.
A Young Girl has just found out that her father has gotten cancer. Pancreatic cancer to be exact. She doesn't know what to do. Is it her fault? Why is this happening to her family? Her father? Is God punishing her for forgetting to pray? These are all questions that she has been asking herself over and over and has been writing in her diary after her father got diagnosed. Why won't God make him better? She's been praying and praying, but her dad is still sick. Why isn't God listening? Can he even hear her? Will her dad be there to walk her down the aisle?
Mac, the macadamia nut, is different from most of his friends. He is different in the way he dresses, eats, sleeps, and plays. But when it counts, Mac is exactly the kind of friend everyone wants and needs.
Lizzie isn't very happy about the move. How unfair is it that her father uprooted her from her entire life because he got a new job? Why did she have to move now in the middle of the 7th grade?
But, things may not be as bad as they seem. There's an abandoned house next door to her new one, and It intrigues Lizzie. Who used to live in it? Why Isn't it being lived in now?
Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Other Wonderland Tales Book 1) by Anders Roseberg, and illustrated by Alex Preyzner, is a children’s lyrical fiction. This book will appeal to young children who are baffled by twins and their appearances. While Dee and Dum look very much alike, their private life is hardly similar. While Dee is serious and intelligent, Dum is full of fun and frolic. Children will love reading their contrasting food habits, dressing style, mischiefs, and their outings to the beach. Preyzner has presented this wonderful journey using colourful illustrations.
Tyrone, the smallest chameleon in the bayou, has been having problems since the moment he was born. He needs extra food, is too weak to play baseball with the other chameleons, and can't make any friends. His favorite place to be is alone on Sun Rock, where none of the other animals ever went. Thus begins Tyrone the Terrible, an animal fable by Jan Lis. Then one day when Tyrone is talking to himself, a squirrel named Junior overhears his troubles. He tells Tyrone that the solution to his problems would be working out in order to get bigger and stronger.
In No True Believers, the reader follows a teenage Muslim girl whose name is Salma Bakkioui. Salma’s best friend, Mariam who has been her neighbor and best friend her whole life is moving away because Mariam’s father’s patients don’t want a Muslim chiropractor anymore. Everything goes downhill from there for Salma. With her boyfriend Amir comforting her, many kids at school are being very rude to her because she is a Muslim.
“Ravening Heart of the Wolf” is a book that is centered around the heroin named Manon Falderdean.Her life has been impacted and torn apart again and again from her mother being ripped from her leading to her death, to having to stay in a constant state of fear while hiding away from a brutal warlord with her grandmother.Her chaotic life gains another level of disarray when she is found by the warlord who then comes to collect her and kills her beloved grandmother.
Things You Can’t Say by Jenn Bishop is a story about a twelve-year old boy named Drew whose father committed suicide when he was nine. It is clear from the beginning that Drew is a kind and thoughtful soul.
