Linh is just a little girl looking for some blueberries to have her friends and family over for some yummy food. She explores her entire garden and realizes that some of the fruits and vegetables do share some of the same things, like melons are round like blueberries. For instance, blackberries are made of many
In New Orleans, an anti-magic city, twins Chris and Clem are stuck caring for their ill mother in a place that despises who they are. The twins are the heirs to a fractured magical family, but they both hold opposite views on magic. Chris has sworn off magic after she cast the spell that led
How would a town without punctuation sound? The sound might make you scream! Well, the village of Babble couldn’t scream or ask why not before a young stranger brought them some practical, linguistic gifts. No one can understand anyone else in Babble, where monotonous sounds overlap and people can’t distinguish their own thoughts from speech.
Known for its fertile soil and its abundant supply of natural resources, Ukraine is a nation inhabited by more than forty million people. The Ukrainians are culturally rich and have exuberant pride and love for their homeland. Throughout history, their freedom hasn’t come easy, though they vow never to stop fighting for it. First written
Ready…Set…Frog! is an adorable story that teaches young readers and listeners a valuable lesson. Frog is a youngster who becomes very excited when his mother tells him that there will be a neighborhood fair the following week. And at this fair, there will be an obstacle course! Now, Frog loves nothing more than an obstacle
In Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, debut author Rita Chang-Eppig picks apart the legacy of power and examines it against the contexts of patriarchal and colonialist oppression. Following her pirate fleet after the death of her husband and amid the tumultuous politics of the early 19th-century South China Sea, Shek Yeung’s journey
When Charlie meets Emily while on summer vacation, the young girls immediately bond over scary stories. Emily is afraid of her father, so Charlie makes up a monster to get rid of him. What at first started as a game, becomes real as Charlie sees her monster and someone dies. Now, thirty years later, Emily
Can a fifty-two year-old woman be the central character in a coming-of-age novel? In skillful hands, she can. Claire is in desperate need of resolving the central dilemmas of her life. After years of selling old and abandoned church properties, she travels to Rome to market another convent. There, she falls in love—first with Rome
Language has its own personality, one that adapts and evolves to meet the pressures of its time but has the binding power to attract and cohere its speakers. Ilan Stavans, professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, has assembled a gallery of American English written samples to illustrate the power within the
Bret Easton Ellis has been avoiding his past as if it were the plague. In his senior year at the Buckley School, friendships were tested, relationships formed and broken, and a serial killer roamed the city. In 1981, Bret is in a relationship with Debbie, best friends with Thom and Susan, but also in an
