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Quinn Calvet was supposed to be having an epic year. She had plans with her best friend, Ximena, and sister, Ava, and to grow her following as an influencer on The Whine. Instead, Quinn finds herself third wheel to Ximena and her boyfriend or getting ditched by Ava who has turned into an overachiever, obsessed with studying and joining school clubs. It brings up Quinn's old feelings that her disability has her left behind. She tries to talk to Ava about it, but she's too busy with the newest club at school, Defend Kids.

Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy has stayed inside baking all summer—pies are better than people, and they don’t trigger her social anxiety. So when her (also) chronically ill mom and sister cook up a plan to get Ivy out of the house and into a support group, Ivy doesn’t expect to say more than a few words. And she certainly doesn’t expect Grant. Grant is CUTE: class-clown cute, perfectly-messy-hair cute, will-always-text-you-back cute. There’s an instant connection between them. He has the same illness as her—juvenile rheumatoid arthritis—and he actually understands Ivy’s world.

Two starred reviews! An “artful and introspective” (BCCB, starred review) novel in verse about a Black teen with ADHD who finds self-expression and first love during one epic summer school season, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and On the Come Up. For the third summer in a row, Pernell...

Fifteen year old Guy is highly intelligent, well-informed, passionate about language and skilled technically. He is also profoundly dyslexic, shy and awkward. When he is enrolled in a mainstream Zimbabwean boarding school, Guy keeps a tape-recorded diary of his progress (or lack of it) through the system with humor, emotional acuity and cynicism that would surprise those who see him failing to meet either the academic or disciplinary expectations of his teachers, or the social expectations of his peers.

Josh Flagsmith is a brave, epileptic pirate boy. Born with visionary powers, Josh is chosen as the Pirate Guardian, and entrusted with the onyx Stone of Truth, which he uses to control his epilepsy. But when a cruel colonist dictator seizes power and throws Josh’s parents in prison, Josh has to escape and sail to the island of Amaryllis to seek aid from the Pirate Council. Helped by his friends, Sandy and Megs, and the dictator’s cunning stepdaughter, Lavinia, Josh must find a way to rescue his parents and overthrow the evil dictator.