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Twelve-year-old Enly Wu Lewis is determined to go to band camp and follow in the footsteps of his musician father, who died years ago. But his mom, a single parent working two jobs, is saving every penny for his older brother's college tuition. So Enly sets out to earn the money for camp on his own, by busking with an obscure instrument he can only kind of play. When someone drops a winning scratch-off lottery ticket into his tip box, Enly thinks it's the answer to his problems—but he'll have to overcome teenage thieves and his own family if he wants to achieve his dreams.

This is the story of Begonia, who was abandoned at a retirement home when she was a baby. You might think that’s the worst thing that could happen to someone, but for Bug, the worst is yet to come. You see, Swamp Root Manor isn’t just any old house. It’s alive, it’s haunted, and everyone in it is…a little bit Odd. Everyone except Begonia. And while she’s waiting for her Oddity to arrive, the manor is running out of money, thanks in no small part to all of Bug’s hospital bills.

As a young teacher on Martha’s Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc—and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America!

A magical adventure rooted in Muslim culture and tradition, Nura and the Immortal Palace follows a young girl’s journey from modern-day Pakistan into the world of the jinn. Nura has worked all her life in the mica mines, earning just enough to keep her family afloat – and enjoy the odd...

Isamu Noguchi is one of the most important sculptors of all time. His Akari lamps changed the way modern buildings light their space. But before he was important, he was a kid. This is his story. Noguchi was a Japanese American artist who gave the world light. The world, however, was not always so giving in return. Growing up mixed-race, born in the United States but raised in Japan, Noguchi found himself perceived as an outsider who did not belong in either country

Organized and introspective nine-year-old Anne Nguyen misses her Grandma Nội, a lot. But even though Grandma Nội passed away, it doesn’t mean she’s disappeared. When Anne and her younger siblings Jacob and Liz are given gifts passed on to them by Grandma, Anne soon realizes that hers—a beautiful jade bangle—has a secret power. One that might just give her the strength to stand up to her ballet teacher, who treats her differently than her white classmates, and embrace her Vietnamese identity through cooking Grandma’s recipes.

The third book in the early chapter book series The Nguyen Kids features the youngest sibling, Jacob, and continues the series’ exploration of social justice themes, specifically gender expression and identity, with a supernatural twist.

En allegori på Jesu liv der foregår i storbyens slum.

På sin 10-års fødselsdag føder Sara en dreng, Sølnvan. De, der kommer i berøring med ham, får et mere positivt liv. Men nogle ønsker ikke forandring...

En fantastisk roman om et barn, der viser sig at have mere magt end både rockere, narkobagmænd og politi.

Alis’ far er svært plaget efter at være blevet mishandlet under besættelsen. Han har brug for morfin til at dæmpe smerterne, men lægerne har sat ham på den sorte liste. Med barnets uendelige loyalitet følger Alis sin far på hans togter for at skaffe morfin. Hun udøver barnlig magi for at hjælpe sin far, og de to holder sammen imod hele verden. Et dybt rørende portræt af et barns måde at håndtere virkeligheden på.

When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren't guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don't welcome overnight stays. Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle and a new life are waiting. Emjay has taken to disappearing for days, slowing down the family's progress and adding to their worry.

This book is written in the form of a poem that follows a young narrator as she experiences a wide array of feelings, fears and memories while processing the loss of her beloved uncle.

When Peggy saves a stray dog from near-death, a beautiful friendship begins. Peggy and Beau are inseparable – the only thing that can ever come between them is war. Peggy is evacuated to the safety of the coast, but Beau is left behind in the city, where he becomes the most extraordinary and unlikely of war heroes. Night after night, as bombs rain down and communities are destroyed, Beau searches the streets, saving countless families. But then disaster strikes, changing Peggy’s life forever.

"Hey,“ siger Kalle. „Fedt, du kom!“ "Jeg kan kun blive i ti minutter,“ siger jeg. Kalle himler med øjnene. „Er du okay?“ Jeg ser på min mobil. Ejnar er vågen. Frederik går i skole og har venner og er måske også ved at blive lidt forelsket. Samtidig prøver han at passe på sin bror og være den voksne og ansvarlige, nu hans mor ikke er i stand til det. Det er, som om det er to helt forskellige verdener. Han kæmper for at få dem til at hænge sammen. Men seks kilometers sort asfalt adskiller dem.

Ever since Jack's dad died, he's had a heavy feeling inside. The pressure keeps building. Looking for release, he starts skiving school and hanging around with a group who like to cause trouble. It's easy to hide his new habits from his mum, an environmental anthropologist, because she's too...

Join princess-knight Grace on her latest epic adventure! QUESTIVAL IS HERE! It's only the COOLEST and most FANTASTICALLY FUN event in all Wondermere! Grace can't wait to go camping, eat marshmallows and make LOADS of new pixie friends ... The only problem is she's stuck looking after Mondo. The...

When eighth grader and aspiring journalist Indigo breaks an important story, exposing an unfair school policy, she's suddenly popular for the first time. The friends who've recently drifted away from her want to hang out again. Then Indigo notices that the school's disciplinary policies seem to be enforced especially harshly with students of color, like her. She wants to keep investigating, but her friends insist she's imagining things.

Halfway through sixth grade, Noah’s best friend and the only other trans boy in his school, Lewis, passed away in a car accident. Lewis was adventurous and curious, always bringing a new paranormal story to share with Noah. Together they daydreamed about cryptids and shared discovering their genders and names. After his death, lonely and yearning for someone who could understand him like Lewis once did, Noah starts writing letters to Mothman.

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Nagroda Szwedzkiego Radia dla najlepszej książki dla dzieci. Sasha ma dwanaście lat. Marzy o tym, by zostać królową śmiechu. By zostać comedy queen. Jej mama często mawiała, że niektórzy ludzie mają funny bones, czyli zabawne kości. Dzięki temu rozśmieszanie innych przychodzi im z łatwością. Tyle że mama Sashy już nie żyje. „Comedy Queen” to cudowna opowieść o miłości, odwadze, tęsknocie i śmiechu. Wzruszająca, zabawna i doskonała. Jenni Jägerfeld jest w Szwecji uważana za współczesną Astrid Lindgren i nie ma w tym porównaniu ani odrobiny przesady.

Twelve-year-old Henna loves living on Earth’s End, the smallest and remotest settlement in the Gardenia Isles. As one of her island’s three residents—the other two are her papas—she spends most of her free time in the garden, coaxing beautiful blooms out of her beloved plants. But when her papa Niall suddenly becomes seriously ill, Henna’s perfect world is uprooted. So when she hears of a legendary, long-lost plant with miraculous healing powers, Henna knows she must find it and use it to save her papa.