juvenile fiction / general

"When the Ku Klux Kla???s unwelcome reappearance rattles Stella's segregated southern town, bravery battles prejudice ... Stella lives in the segregated South--in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she ca???t. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan has???t bothered them for years. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something the???re never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, unwelcome change by any stretch of the imagination. As Stell???s community--her world--is upended, she decides to fight fire with fire. And she learns that ashes do???t necessarily signify an end."--Publisher's web site.

Ninety-five days, and then I'll be safe. I wonder whether the procedure will hurt. I want to get it over with. It's hard to be patient. It's hard not to be afraid while I'm still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn't touched me yet. Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't.

After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.

Spunky eleven-year-old Wadjda lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with her parents. She desperately wants a bicycle so that she can race her friend Abdullah, even though it is considered improper for girls to ride bikes. Wadjda earns money for her dream bike by selling homemade bracelets and mixtapes of banned music to her classmates. But after she's caught, she's forced to turn over a new leaf (sort of), or risk expulsion from school. Still, Wadjda keeps scheming, and with the bicycle so closely in her sights, she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

"Fox has a not-so-new problem, and every possible solution leads to more problems for the other animals, until they all come together with the ultimate fix."--.

"When two siblings attend an unusual school, aboard a ship, they make new friends, learn about all things nautical, and become involved in a mystery they feel compelled to help solve"--Provided by publisher.

Bad Bunny likes to play tricks, like putting spicy sauce on vegetables, but when a sly fox threatens the rabbits it is Bad Bunny who saves his friends.

"A group of supernatural kids faces off against a corrupt politician and the supernatural adults he has recruited to aid him in his misdeeds"--.

Ravenskill is hosting the Golden Frog Games, a magical tournament, but somebody is using forbidden hexes to turn contestants into stone; meanwhile Seven Salazar, future "uncle" of Ravenskill, who is supposed to have the power to communicate with animals, has a secret--the only voices she hears belong to the deadly monstruos.

Middle school student Sam is comfortable with their nonbinary identity, and their family has accepted it too (as long as they do their homework and chores), so when their history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) they and their friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian photographer, whose house on Staten Island is a museum--but they have to overcome the presumption on the part of their teacher that only straight males are eligible.