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The Trouble with Half a Moon
Books, Middle Grade Books
The Trouble with Half a Moon
By Danette Vigilante
Putnam • 2011 • 181 pages
Hardcover ($16.99)
ISBN: 978-0-399-25159-7
Ages 9-12
Like most 13-year-olds, Dellie has a lot on her mind: school, parents, friends, and boys. But Dellie's…
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White
Books, Young-Adult-BooksDarkroom: A Memoir in Black & White
Written & Illustrated by Lila Quintero Weaver
University of Alabama Press • 2012 • 264 pages
Paperback ($24.95)
ISBN: 9780817357146
Ages 14 and up
Weaver's remarkable memoir of her youth…
The Queen of Water
Books, Young-Adult-Books
The Queen of Water
By Laura Resau & María Virginia Farinango
Delarcorte /Random House • 2011 • 352 pages
Paperback ($9.99)
ISBN: 9780375859632
Ages 12 and up
From a very young age, María Virginia Farinango experienced a heartbreaking…
Guadalupe Garcia McCall Retells Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’
Book News & Features, Books
Young adult novelist Guadalupe Garcia McCall’s latest book, Summer of the Mariposas (Tu Books), is a retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey with a decidedly Latino twist. We had a chance to chat with McCall, whose debut young adult novel, Under…
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Books, Young-Adult-Books
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Simon & Schuster • 2012 • 359 pages
Hardcover ($16.99)
ISBN: 978-1-4424-0892-0
Ages 12 and up
It's summer 1987, and not quite sixteen-year-old Aristotle…
Classic Teen Books: Must-Reads for the Modern Young Adult
Book News & Features, Books
With blockbuster franchises like Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games, there is no shortage of books to get teens excited about reading. But so much media hype and fan frenzy over the movies and the actors who star in them makes it…
Are Extended Wear Contact Lenses for You?
Health, Medical News
Contact lens wearers have known for years that contacts in their eyes need to be removed before nodding off to sleep. It's just one of those accepted things in life—you don't sleep with contact lenses in. But times have changed as improvements…
The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind
Books, Life, Young-Adult-Books
The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind
Meg Medina
Candlewick Press • 2012 • 246 pages
Hardcover ($17.99)
ISBN: 978-0-7636-4602-8
Ages 13 and up
Sonia Ocampo is not a typical small-town teenager. She was born during a terrible storm…
Summer of the Mariposas
Books, Life, Young-Adult-BooksSummer of the Mariposas
Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Tu Books • 2012 • 355 pages
Hardcover ($19.95)
ISBN 978-1-60060-900-8
Ages 12 and up
Mothers and daughters. As our girls grow up, the relationship becomes more difficult to navigate;…