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A Golden Kite Award Winner for Young Adult Fiction From award-winning author Margarita Engle comes a "[f]anciful, hopeful, and heartfelt" (Kirkus Reviews) love story told in verse about childhood friends, once lost and now reconnected, and their fight to protect...

A Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book Penelope Ross has always felt like a passenger in her mother's fairytale - until the night of her 17th birthday, when she is forced to enter her own. After a text from her estranged mother rips her away from a night with friends...

A Kirkus' Best Book and Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! One Step Forward is a compelling debut YA historical fiction novel in verse about Matilda Young--the youngest American suffragist imprisoned for picketing the White House to demand women's right to vote....

From #1 NYT bestselling author Ellen Hopkins comes a new heartbreaking young adult novel in verse about twins separated in the foster care system and the different paths their lives take. Seventeen-year-old twins Storm and Lake have always been in perfect sync. They faced the...

Winner of the Pura Belpré Award and Walter Dean Myers Award for Young Adult Literature! Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer--that...