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Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal awareness: family, relationship & social issues
Cemetery Boys is an LGBTQIA+ ghost story about magic, acceptance
and what it means to be your true self. From the instant New York
Times-bestelling author Aiden Thomas. Yadriel has summoned a ghost,
and now he can't get rid of him. In an attempt to prove himself a
true brujo and gain his family's acceptance, Yadriel decides to
summon his cousin's ghost and help him cross to the afterlife. But
things get complicated when he accidentally summons the ghost of
his high school's resident bad boy, Julian Diaz - and Julian won't
go into death quietly. The two boys must work together if Yadriel
is to move forward with his plan. But the more time Yadriel and
Julian spend together, the harder it is to let each other go. 'A
celebration of culture and identity that will captivate readers
with its richly detailed world, earnest romance, and thrilling
supernatural mystery' - Isabel Sterling, author of These Witches
Don't Burn
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Wonder
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R. J. Palacio
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Now an Oscar nominated film starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay.
'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'
Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go.
Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?
WONDER is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "Brilliant, honest, and equal parts
heartbreaking and soul-healing." --Laurie Halse Anderson, author of
SHOUT "A singular voice in the world of literature." --Jason
Reynolds, author of Long Way Down A powerful coming-of-age story
about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager
takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder. Jay Reguero
plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video
games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But
when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part
of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants
to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find
out the real story. Hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events
that led to his death, Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides
of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth -- and
the part he played in it. As gripping as it is lyrical, Patron
Saints of Nothing is a page-turning portrayal of the struggle to
reconcile faith, family, and immigrant identity.
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