A heartwarming middle-grade novel about an eleven-year-old Japanese American girl who finds her true friends when she joins her school's J-Pop club, from award-winning author Akemi Dawn Bowman.
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Akemi Dawn Bowman is een veelgeprezen auteur wiens werk zich over meerdere genres uitstrekt. Haar romans duiken in complexe thema's met een scherpe focus op karakterontwikkeling. Bowman benadert haar schrijven met een nauwgezette en doordachte stijl, waarbij ze verhalen creëert die diep resoneren bij lezers. Haar onderscheidende stem maakt haar een boeiende keuze voor wie op zoek is naar emotioneel rijke en gedetailleerd uitgewerkte verhalen.
Nami has been honing her skills in the Borderlands after escaping Ophelia and the Courts of Infinity. With newfound abilities, she can now enter minds without consent, which she plans to use to find answers in Prince Caelan's mind. However, his past betrayal complicates her mission, leaving her uncertain about confronting him again. As she prepares to rescue her captured friends, the struggle between trust and betrayal looms large over her journey.
Kiko Himura has always had a hard time saying exactly what she's thinking. With a mother who makes her feel unremarkable and a half-Japanese heritage she doesn't quite understand, Kiko prefers to keep her head down, certain that once she makes it into her dream art school, Prism, her real life will begin. But then Kiko doesn't get into Prism, at the same time her abusive uncle moves back in with her family. So when she receives an invitation from her childhood friend to leave her small town and tour art schools on the west coast, Kiko jumps at the opportunity in spite of the anxieties and fears that attempt to hold her back. And now that she is finally free to be her own person outside the constricting walls of her home life, Kiko learns life-changing truths about herself, her past, and how to be brave.
“Earnest, poetic.” —Booklist “Raw, engaging.” —Kirkus Reviews The Greatest Showman meets This Is Us by way of Sarah Dessen in this heart-wrenching, hopeful contemporary novel about a multiracial teen who risks it all to follow her dreams by joining the circus, from the award-winning author of Starfish. Harley Milano has dreamed of becoming a trapeze artist for as long as she can remember. With parents who run a famous circus in Las Vegas, she spends almost every night in the big top watching their lead aerialist perform, wishing with all her heart and soul that she would be up there herself one day. After a huge fight with her parents, who continue to insist she go to school instead, Harley leaves home, betrays her family, and joins the rival traveling circus Maison du Mystère. There, she is thrust into a world that is both brutal and beautiful, where she learns the value of hard work, passion, and collaboration. At the same time, Harley must come to terms with the truth of her family and her past—and reckon with the sacrifices she made and the people she hurt in order to follow her dreams. From award-winning author Akemi Dawn Bowman comes a luminous, unforgettable examination of love, loyalty, and the hard choices we must make to find where we truly belong.
Summer Bird Blue
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- 12 uur lezen
After her sister and songwriting partner, Lea, dies in an automobile accident, seventeen-year-old Rumi is sent to Hawaii with an aunt she barely knows while she and her mother grieve separately. --
The Infinity Courts
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- 16 uur lezen
Murdered on the way to her high school graduation party, eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto finds herself in an afterlife ruled by Ophelia, a virtual assistant planning to eradicate human existence.
Black Mirror meets Marie Lu's Warcross in Nami's continuing adventures as she fights to free her friends in this "fast-paced" (Kirkus Reviews) sequel to The Infinity Courts by award-winning author Akemi Dawn Bowman. číst celé
In this middle grade contemporary fantasy by a critically acclaimed author, half-Japanese teen Eliot grieves the loss of her beloved grandma and attempts to contact her beyond the grave.