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All Jin Wang wants is to fit in...
When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly
finds that he’s the only Chinese-American student at his
school. Jocks and bullies pick on him constantly, and he
has hardly any friends. Then, to make matters worse, he
falls Read More »
The Pox Party
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks
and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations.
Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by
numbers, the boy and his mother — a princess in exile from a
faraway land — are the only Read More »
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is
girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named
Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times,
to be exact.
On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-
up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in Read More »
am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh
of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only
beautiful thing about it. As life slips away, Gabriel looks
back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded
by frustration and humiliation. A small Read More »
It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's
groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a
foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a
meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters
something she can't resist'books. With the help of her Read More »
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