"A high school stage manager has to face his complicated feelings about love when he catches himself falling for the same guy as his sister"--

Making friends in a new city, and new country, is hard for twelve-year-old Isabel, but joining the gardening and cooking club at school helps her find her way.

When Eva, a worrier, moves to a new town, the what ifs only grow, and she feels alone and invisible until her teacher finds a creative and kind way to make Eva feel welcome and open to new experiences, a lesson that will stay with her long after second grade.

"Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She's starting to feel at home at Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with José, a senior boy she's getting to know. She's confident her initiation into her family's bruja tradition will happen soon. But then a white boy, the son of a politician, appears at Julia De Burgos High, and his vibes are off. And Yolanda's initiation begins with a series...

Mani Semilla is determined not to go to Guatemala until she finds letters written between her mother and her journalist aunt who has disappeared, revealing both the beauty of the country and its history of violence against women, which slowly transforms her into a budding activist.

After being expelled from spy school, thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley accepts an offer to join evil crime organization SPYDER, and although he knows he is a key part of their sinister plan he is not sure how to get word to the good guys without being caught.

As they celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the kids in Mrs. Connor's class share their hopes and dreams and imagine how to make the world a better place to honor the important holiday.

Eight-year-old Kwame is eager to start Nkonyaa School and learn calabash magic, yet none of the teachers can figure out what kind of magic is in his calabash--but when one of Kwame's new friends is possessed by an evil magic his power is revealed.

"When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is going to disrupt everything about her life. She doesn't have time to be Dadi's unofficial babysitter—her journalism teacher has announced that their big assignment will be to film a documentary, which feels more like storytelling than what Maha would call “journalism.” As Dadi starts to settle into life in Houston and Maha scrambles...

"Hilo's friends Polly the warrior cat and her brother Pip are sent to a magical boarding school for bad kids"--