When Grace's teacher tells her that the school play is to be Peter Pan, Grace immediately wants the main part. You can't be Peter Pan, says Natalie. He wasn't black. But Grace's Nana thinks differently. You can be anything you want, Grace, if you put your mind to it.
Heather Goes to Hollywood (Magic Attic Club)
by Sheri Cooper Sinykin and S Sinykin
Sixteen-year-old Col Porpentine is being groomed as the next Commander of Worldshaker, a juggernaut where elite families live on the upper decks while the Filthies toil below, but when he meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run, he discovers how ignorant he is of his home and its residents.
Recounts in graphic novel format how Allen Jay, a young Quaker boy living in Ohio during the 1840s, helped a fleeing slave escape his master and make it to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
"Stephenie Meyer meets John Green in debut author Waters's wry, original supernatural romance, which blends sensitivity and deadpan humour to reflect a culture clash on both sides on the living spectrum" - Kirkus Reviews Love knows no boundaries... even death Phoebe Kendall is just your typical Goth girl with a crush. He's strong and silent... and dead. All over the country, a strange phenomenon is occurring. Some teenagers who die aren't staying dead. But when they come back to life, they...
When the school in Mayfield Crossing is closed, the students are sent to larger schools, where the black children encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Only baseball seems a possibility for drawing people together.
This is a tour-de-force new work by rising indie comics star Gene Yang. "American Born Chinese" maps the adolescent Chinese-American experience through three separate but interwoven stories. One story centres on Jin Wang, a Chinese-American student at an all-white California high school. Jin is plagued by jocks and bullies, so when another Chinese student transfers to the school, Jin wants nothing to do with him. Next is a comic update of the legendary story of the Monkey King, an ancient Chines...
Deela''s got a wonderful bike that she''s long ing to ride but she doesn''t have a helmet. If she can be goo d for a whole week, the helmet will be hers. But can she do it? '
El Pez Arco Iris y La Ballena Azul
by Marcus Pfister and M Pfister
While she and her older sisters are staying with their great-grandmother, ten-year-old Annie Rye learns about prejudice first hand when a local white girl causes Annie's sister to be unjustly punished.
Jenny never noticed her ears. Then one day, her little brother Danny, pointed and lauphed at her big ears. Jenny's special friend, Mr. Navy, helps her gain confidence and except herself. She soon learns that everybody has something that they don't like about themselves.