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如果书需要标签, Café con Lychee by Emery Lee would be a romantic comedy that showcases queer interracial love between two people of color. Labels are suggestive of a category and, as such, provide a cognitive short-cut. Yet, labels also invite critical thinking. So, while Lee’s book does indeed feature two gay young men—one Japanese/Chinese, the other Puerto Rican—it dives deeper, emerging as a book about the universal experience of looking for acceptance and how fear makes people do terrible things. An openly gay boy, Theo Mori is a talented cook and soccer athlete. Even though his friends see him as confident, smart, and阅读更多→

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Although an important book about exploitation, 种族灭绝, and identity—one inspired by Yoruba-Nigerian mythology—黛博拉·法拉耶的《welcome皇冠地址》 is difficult to read. Trapped in a world of monsters who will eat her alive should they realize she’s the enemy, Sloane Shade lives under Lucis rule and tyranny. Ten times more horrifying than the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, the ruling class and its military are pitting children against children, 训练他们杀人或被杀. Bound by the Lucis law regarding conscription, 当一个孩子满十五岁时, he or she reports for training for a 战争 against the Shadow Rebels. 这就是……的命运阅读更多→

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这是七年级的第一天, and Maggie Diaz is eager for the new freedoms that West Memorial Middle School in Miami will hold. 然而, this messy and forgetful gal with strict 古巴n parents discovers that life at this age and stage is complicated. 麦琪没有电话, 和她奶奶共用一间卧室, and endures chaos at home with a teenage sister, 一个刚出生的小弟弟, a mother who is trying to complete her accounting degree, and a father who is working out of town. Furthermore, she feels left behind by her friends who are moving for战争d with their own interests. 喜欢的乐队阅读更多→

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Readers of Katherine Patterson will likely appreciate 阿里·斯坦迪什报道. The community of Foggy Gap proves the world is a confusing place—with gaps in understanding and with clarity of vision required on subjects like justice, 偏见, 战争, 和勇气. 故事发生在20世纪40年代早期, Standish shares a perspective of what the years surrounding World War II may have been like in the United States. Her story suggests that the country’s role in WWII is more complicated than many of us are taught to believe, especially in the way in which news about Hitler’s Jewish extermination campaign was publicized or received limited coverage. 为阅读更多→

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无法使她成为养母, 琳恩帕克曼, 快乐, Rynn gives up after Mom critiqued her homemade birthday gift placemats sewn by Rynn at age twelve. Although Rynn compares Mom to a dormant volcano that explodes without 战争ning, she loves her Jewish father who was raised in New York but now grows garlic on a farm in Maine. Rynn’s birthmother was twenty when she gave birth to baby girl and named her Scheherazade. 图例定义了名称, but Rynn decides it might be a survival trick for her: “I’m wondering if my birthmother wanted me to know that in order to survive without the truth阅读更多→

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With his novel Falling Short, Ernesto Cisneros writes a motivational book for middle grade readers. Taking inspiration from his own life and from a quote by Michelangelo, Cisneros concurs that “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.来传达这个寓意, Cisneros creates Isaac Castillo and Marco Honeyman, two sixth graders at Mendez Middle School, who are looking for approval from their absent fathers. A talented basketball player, Isaac is dedicated to the sport and to the idea of teamwork. 他最好的朋友阅读更多→

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Alechia Dow writes an intriguing speculative story with her novel The Kindred. Her two protagonists—as is everyone else in the Monchuri system—have been linked with since birth. The Kindred program was created after The Second Chaos, a revolution in which the poor rose up demanding that their voices be heard by the rich. Maru’s top scientists created the mind pairing idea as a solution. Because those who are paired come to know each other’s thoughts so intimately, they often marry. 然而, in the case of Joy Abara and Felix Hamdi, a pairing is unlikely since he’s of royal blood and in line for the throne阅读更多→

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A master storyteller and the creator of the character Maria on the television program Sesame Street, Sonia Manzano brings to life the unfolding injustice of Fidel Castro’s reign in 古巴 from 1959-1961. Through the narratives of four pre-teen adolescents in Coming Up 古巴n, Manzano weaves a tapestry that captures a compelling period in human history. 读者们认识一下安娜·安迪诺, 哈瓦那一位有抱负的艺术家, 古巴, in 1959, 谁的父亲是革命者. 在安娜的眼中, her Papi is fighting for an unjust cause—one that is keeping a rebel leader with suffocating rules and ideas in place. Rafael explains to his daughter: “This Revolution was fought阅读更多→