Ben’s life is completely upended after their parents kick them out after they come out to them as non-binary. With no other options, Ben turns to their long-lost sister for help. Starting a new school, dealing with anxiety, a new home and visiting a new therapist is a lot, but there is one bright spot: Nathan.
Through six sections, including poems and a short story, When You Ask Me Where I’m Going delivers a powerful exploration of young womanhood in an often unfriendly world and tells the story of a young mother fleeing home to raise her daughter.
All Enchanted Jones has ever wanted to be is a singer, and R&B legend Korey Fields is her ticket to stardom. After being discovered by Korey at a competition, a charmed Enchanted is swept up into his glamorous world. But lurking behind the dream-like exterior of Enchanted’s new life and relationship is a much darker story, led by an abusive, controlling and manipulative version of Korey. And when Enchanted wakes up one night to find Korey dead, she becomes suspect number one.
This Place: 150 Years Retold is a graphic novel anthology of ten stories of Indigenous history and resistance, spanning 150 years, coast to coast and many genres, from magical realism to sci-fi.
Josie is a seventeen-year-old freelance journalist with the opportunity of a lifetime: writing a profile of budding teenage movie star Marius Canet for Deep Focus magazine. After landing the role by winning a journalism contest, Josie embarks on her all-expenses-paid press tour with the cast of Marius’s new movie. But along the way, Josie discovers a dark secret behind the glitter of Hollywood stardom.
Khayyam is a seventeen-year-old aspiring art historian, and in Paris for the summer. Back home her academic and romantic lives are in shambles, and Khayyam is certain her life as she knows it is being pulled out from under her, including her chances at getting into her dream college and her boyfriend – not that he’s ever described himself that way – Zaid. But all that changes when she meets charming Alexandre, the descendant of the famous writer Alexandre Dumas – the French writer who just happens to be the subject of her academic paper that judges so viciously debunked.
Daunis Fontaine is an eighteen-year-old biracial Ojibwe girl who has her future laid out ahead of her: playing hockey, attending the University of Michigan and going on to study medicine. That is before tragedy struck her family in the form of her uncle’s death and her grandmother’s stroke, which have cast an ever-darkening shadow of grief over her mother. But transferring to the local university so she can stay in town isn’t the worst thing, especially with the arrival of the handsome new boy, Jamie. Then everything in the new normal changes when Daunis witnesses a murder, and Daunis must reckon with an even newer normal where nothing is as it seems.
Nova Huang is a teenage witch who loans books of spells from her grandmothers’ bookshop. Tam Lang is a werewolf who has been on the run from a cult trying to possess them with a demon. When Nova hears reports of a white wolf in the forest, she goes to investigate, only to find her childhood crush Tam has returned.
Fereshteh “Angel” Rahimi’s life revolves around The Ark, the famous boyband she and her friend Juliet are finally going to meet this week. Some people might say it’s silly, but Angel knows that The Ark fandom is everything to her for a reason: it’s given her something to believe in, her friends and her dreams for most of her teenage life.
Jimmy Kaga-Ricci is The Ark’s frontman and is living his childhood dreams of being in a band with his best friends. However, despite his seemingly perfect life, Jimmy is struggling more than anyone knows.
Darcy has a secret, and it’s a big one. She runs locker 89, the locker where anyone in the school can drop a letter with their relationship problems and ten dollars and receive an anonymous email with relationship advice that boasts a 95% success rate. Darcy has never been caught, at least that is until her classmate Brougham catches her in the act of retrieving letters. However, her secret is safe with him. The only catch is that she has to help him get his ex-girlfriend back.
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