[A] gorgeous, tender testament to the generation of young people who shouldered the pandemic.
--Brendan Kiely, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author

Grief, pain, hope, and love collide in this short story collection.

In New York City, teens, their families, and their communities feel the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst the fear and loss, these teens and the adults around them persevere with love and hope while living in difficult circumstances:

• Malachi writes an Armageddon short story inspired by his pandemic reality.
• Tariq helps their ailing grandmother survive during quarantine.
• Zamira struggles with depression and loneliness after losing her parents.
• Mohamed tries to help keep his community spirit alive.
• A social worker reflects on the ways the foster system fails their children.

Fiercely funny, honest, heart-breaking--this is an unforgettable novel from a bright talent, and a film that critics called a touchstone for its generation and an instant classic.

This is the funniest book you'll ever read about death.

It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he's figured it out. The answer to the basic existential question: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad?

His strategy: remain at the periphery at all times. Keep an insanely low profile. Make mediocre films with the one person who is even sort of his friend, Earl.

This plan works for exactly eight hours. Then Greg's mom forces him to become friends with a girl who has cancer. This brings about the destruction of Greg's entire life.

From Schneider Award-winning author Shannon Stocker comes a moving and empowering YA novel that explores what it means to find your voice and learn to advocate for yourself. Twyla has always believed things happen for a reason, but when she starts having severe health issues and doctors won't listen to her concerns, she finds herself questioning everything, including her diagnosis ... and wondering if her mother's death holds the answer.

Twyla enters high school sure of three things: Her best friends will always be there for her, the next four years will be amazing, and her mom was right when she said there's a reason behind everything. Then she gets extremely nauseous and has trouble concentrating during a field hockey game. The doctors say it's only a mild digestive issue, but Twyla is convinced they're wrong. Making things worse, her friends start ghosting her outside of school, even though they tell her everything is fine, and her dad is becoming more distant each time she asks about her mom's life before she died.

As Twyla's illness intensifies and her diagnosis stays the same, she finds herself feeling like her world is unraveling. It's not until she begins researching her symptoms herself--and discovers something in her mom's old records that could hold the answer to her condition--that she believes there could be some sort of reason for everything she's facing. But will anyone listen to her in time?

Stronger at the Seams:

• Is a contemporary fiction novel for readers 12 and up and adult fans of YA
• Comes from Shannon Stocker, the winner of the 2023 Schneider Award for Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion and an advocate for children with disabilities and chronic disease
• Is a powerful coming-of-age story about family, friendship, and self-advocacy

Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read.

Elogiada con entusiasmo por autores consagrados como Oliver Sacks e Ian McEwan y ganadora del Premio Whitbread y el Premio de la Commonwealth al Mejor Primer Libro, ha merecido la aprobaci n masiva de los lectores en todos los pa ses donde se ha publicado.

Su protagonista, Christopher Boone, es uno de los m s originales que han surgido en el panorama de la narrativa internacional en los ltimos a os, y est destinado a convertirse en un h roe literario universal de la talla de Oliver Twist y Holden Caulfield. A sus quince a os, Christopher conoce las capitales de todos los pa ses del mundo, puede explicar la teor a de la relatividad y recitar los n meros primos hasta el 7.507, pero le cuesta relacionarse con otros seres humanos, Christopher es autista. Le gustan las listas, los esquemas y la verdad, pero odia el amarillo, el marr n y el contacto f sico. Si bien nunca ha ido solo m s all de la tienda de la esquina, la noche que el perro de una vecina aparece atravesado por un horc n, Christopher decide iniciar la b squeda del culpable.

Emulando a su admirado Sherlock Holmes -el modelo de detective obsesionado con el an lisis de los hechos-, sus pesquisas lo llevar n a cuestionar el sentido com n de los adultos que lo rodean y a desvelar algunos secretos familiares que pondr n patas arriba su ordenado y seguro mundo.

Rese as:

«Conmovedora, veros mil y muy divertida. -Oliver Sacks

«Soberbia. Mark Haddon escribe con sabidur a y sentido del humor. -Ian McEwan

«No pierdan la oportunidad de mirar el mundo a trav s de sus ojos. -El Peri dico

«Reflexiones de una belleza y una profundidad inusuales. -Babelia

«P ginas llenas de ternura. -El Cultural

«Un libro apasionante. -Blanco y Negro Cultural

«Excepcional. Al mirar a trav s de los ojos de Christopher, vemos el mundo con mayor claridad y nos comprendemos mejor a nosotros mismos. Qu m s se puede pedir a un libro? -The Sunday Telegraph

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A bestselling modern classic--both poignant and funny--about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.

This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.

Simone Garcia-Hampton is starting over at a new school, and this time things will be different. She's making real friends, making a name for herself as student director of Rent, and making a play for Miles, the guy who makes her melt every time he walks into a room. The last thing she wants is for word to get out that she's HIV-positive, because last time . . . well, last time things got ugly.
Keeping her viral load under control is easy, but keeping her diagnosis under wraps is not so simple. As Simone and Miles start going out for real--shy kisses escalating into much more--she feels an uneasiness that goes beyond butterflies. She knows she has to tell him that she's positive, especially if sex is a possibility, but she's terrified of how he'll react! And then she finds an anonymous note in her locker: I know you have HIV. You have until Thanksgiving to stop hanging out with Miles. Or everyone else will know too.
Simone's first instinct is to protect her secret at all costs, but as she gains a deeper understanding of the prejudice and fear in her community, she begins to wonder if the only way to rise above is to face the haters head-on. . . .

Full Disclosure is such a joy to read. --Erika Sanchez, National Book Award finalist for I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

A big-hearted love letter to inclusivity, bravery, and acceptance, Full Disclosure is a wonder of a book. --Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces

An up-close look at the lives of the children of military families, Beneath Wandering Stars takes readers on a journey of love, danger, laughter, and friendship, against all odds.

After her soldier brother is horribly wounded in Afghanistan, Gabriela must honor the vow she made: If anything ever happened to him, she would walk the Camino de Santiago through Spain, making a pilgrimage in his name. The worst part is that the promise stipulates that she must travel with her brother's best friend--a boy she has despised all her life. Her brother is in a coma, and Gabi feels that she has no time to waste, but she is unsure. Will she hesitate too long, or risk her own happiness to keep a promise?

Anna is a regular teenaged girl. She runs track with her best friend, gets good grades, and sometimes drinks beer at parties.

But one day at track practice, Anna falls unconscious . . . but instead of falling down, she falls up, defying gravity in the disturbing first symptom of a mysterious disease.

This begins a series of trips to the hospital that soon become Anna's norm. She's diagnosed with lepidopsy: a rare illness that causes symptoms reminiscent of moths: floating, attraction to light, a craving for sugar, and for an unlucky few, more dangerous physical manifestations.

Anna's world is turned upside down, and as she learns to cope with her illness, she finds herself drifting further and further away from her former life. Her friends don't seem to understand, running track is out of the question, and the other kids at the disease clinic she attends once a week are a cruel reminder that things will never be the same.

From debut author Heather Kamins comes a beautiful and evocative story about one girl's journey of choosing who she wants to be--in a life she never planned for.

Created by the CDC (the U.S. Centers for Disease Control), Operation Outbreak is an exciting graphic novel designed to educate young readers about the spread of infectious diseases and the public health risks they pose. In this story, several concerned students join forces as the Junior Disease Detectives, a group of investigators who are determined to find the source of a deadly flu outbreak and stop it before it takes more lives.

The CDC writes, [We hope] that this story helps to encourage youth interest in the many different career paths available in public health at the local, state and federal levels. . . . We at CDC hope that readers are inspired to become the next generation of real life disease detectives and public health superheroes.

The book also includes Ask a Scientist: How Do People Become Infected with Germs? and Ask a Scientist: How Does My Body Fight Disease? It is beautifully printed in full color on 70-pound, acid-free, archival-quality paper for long life and durability.

Get ready for the book Kirkus Reviews calls satisfying fare for fans of romantic and family dramas. from the Texas Indie Author of the Year (2022), Haleigh Wenger.

Sixteen-year-old Paige Williams can't stop self-sabotaging. 

Not when her dad gets sick, not when her relationship implodes, not even when her parents send her to another-freaking-state for the summer to live with her sister. Paige just wants to have fun, spray paint a few walls, and block out everything stressful, including her growing concern that she might be sick as well. To make things worse, her parents threaten her with boarding school in the fall if she can't prove she's changed her bad habits.

Paige's parents sign her up for a rebuilding project in Texas where her sister lives. Meanwhile, Paige reluctantly befriends her sister's straight-laced teenage neighbor, Joey, who is a frequent guest. He's so different from her, but Paige realizes that may not be a bad thing, especially since being around Joey curbs her urge to vandalize and ignore the rules. He even makes her forget about the debilitating stomach cramps she struggles to hide.

Just as Paige begins to feel settled in Texas, her dad's worsening Crohn's disease brings her home to Seattle.

When her own health fails her, she has the choice of staying at home and receiving care. Or, she could go back to Texas and prove for once and for all that she's more than her mistakes and more than a disease.

Torn between two worlds and two versions of herself, Paige must decide where, and with whom, she truly feels at home.

Una historia peculiar, encantadora, desgarradora y conmovedora, acerca de c mo una persona busca pertencer y encontrar sentido a un mundo que no parece comprensible. Narrada en una voz extraordinaria y totalmente original.

Ve el mundo de otra manera. Te presentamos a Ginny Moon. Es la t pica adolescente, toca la flauta en la banda de la escuela, practica baloncesto semanalmente, y lee poemas de Robert Frost en la clase de ingl s.

Pero Ginny es autista. Y lo que es importante para ella puede parecer un poco... diferente: comienza cada d a con nueve uvas exactas como desayuno y la elaboraci n de un plan secreto de escapar.

Despu s de haber sido alejada traum ticamente de su madre abusiva y haber vivido en diferentes hogares, Ginny ha encontrado finalmente su «Casa permanente , un lugar seguro con padres que la aman y cuidan de ella. Esto es exactamente lo que todos ni o hu rfano anhela, verdad? Pero Ginny tiene otras intenciones. Planea robar, mentir y aprovecharse de la buena voluntad de quienes la aman, lo que sea para conseguir lo que le falta en su vida. Incluso intentar que la secuestren.

Narrada en una voz extraordinaria y totalmente original, esta historia es a la vez peculiar, encantadora, desgarradora y conmovedora, acerca de c mo una persona trata de pertenecer y encontrar sentido a un mundo que no parece comprensible.

Ash boards a Greyhound bus heading to the place where Bly was last seen: Snowflake, Arizona. Six thousand feet up in the wide red desert, Ash meets Mona, her dog, her goat, and her neighbors, and finds stepbrother Bly, too.

In their ramshackle homes, the walls lined with tinfoil, almost all the residents of Snowflake are sick. But this isn't any ordinary sickness: the chemicals and technologies of modern life are poisoning them. They call themselves canaries, living warning signs that humans have pushed the environment too far, except no one seems to be taking their warnings seriously. The healthy normies of Snowflake have written them off as a bunch of eccentrics, and when Ash too falls ill, the doctor's response is It's all in your mind.

Snowflake, AZ contemplates illness and health--both our own and our planet's. As Ash lives through a cycle of illness and recovery and loss, the world beyond is succumbing to its own affliction: a breakdown of civilization only distantly perceived by Ash and the isolated residents of Snowflake, from which there may or may not be a chance for recovery. This provocative novel by one of our most admired storytellers explores the resilience of love and community in the face of crisis.

Sixteen-year-old Petula de Wilde is anything but wild. A former crafting fiend with a happy life, Petula shut herself off from the world after a family tragedy. She sees danger in all the ordinary things, like crossing the street, a bug bite, or a germy handshake. She knows: life is out to get you.

The worst part of her week is her comically lame mandatory art therapy class with a small group of fellow misfits. Then a new boy, Jacob, appears at school and in her therapy group. He seems so normal and confident, though he has a prosthetic arm; and soon he teams up with Petula on a hilarious project, gradually inspiring her to let go of some of her fears. But as the two grow closer, a hidden truth behind why he's in the group threatens to derail them, unless Petula takes a huge risk. . .

Praise:
Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year

Nielsen writes with sensitivity, empathy, and humor. --Kirkus Reviews, Starred

Nielsen excels at depicting troubled, clever teenagers in familiar environments. --School Library Journal, Starred

An] empathic and deeply moving story, balanced by sharply funny narration and dialogue. --Publishers Weekly, Starred

A poignant exploration into the nuances of healing. --Quill and Quire, Starred

A laughter through tears YA novel about a teenage girl struggling to deal with her father's terminal cancer--in all the wrong ways

All the Ways the World Can End by Abby Sher is at times heart wrenching while at others hilarious.

Lenny (short for Eleanor) feels like the world is about to end. Her best friend is moving to San Francisco and her dad is dying. To cope with her stress Lenny is making a list of all the ways the world can end--designer pathogens, blood moon prophecies, alien invasion--and stockpiling supplies in a bunker in the backyard.

Then she starts to develop feelings for her dad's very nice young doctor--and she thinks he may have feelings for her too. Spoiler alert: he doesn't. But a more age-appropriate love interest might. In a time of complete uncertainty, one thing's for sure: Lenny's about to see how everything is ending and beginning. All at the same time.

Praise for All the Ways the World Can End:

Lenny's grief feels palpable and honest. --Kirkus Reviews

Expressing the same type of magical thinking explored in Sher's memoir, Amen, Amen, Amen, the novel delineates destructive and healthy responses to loss, and shows that beauty and continuity can exist amid tragedy. --Publishers Weekly

Brianna is a math whiz. She's almost certain to be admitted to MIT--that is, if she survives to see her nineteenth birthday. Brianna has cystic fibrosis, and after her friend Molly died six months ago, it's hard for Brianna to let go of the feeling that she's next. Numbers make sense to Brianna--they give her something to think about besides her own crummy odds. To her great surprise, it is in math class that she discovers the infinity that exists between eighteen and nineteen.

Poignant and true, this story of one extraordinary teenage life is riveting. With Forever Changes, Brendan Halpin has crafted an unparalleled protagonist who will leave an indelible mark on readers.

Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross-country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste. Eight months after her transplant, everything is different. Stuck in summer school with the underachievers, all she wants to do now is grab her surfboard and hit the waves--which is strange, because she wasn't interested in surfing before her transplant. (It doesn't hurt that her instructor, Kai, is seriously good-looking.) And that's not all that's strange. There's also the vivid recurring nightmare about crashing a motorcycle in a tunnel and memories of people and places she doesn't recognize. Is there something wrong with her head now, too, or is there another explanation for what she's experiencing? As she searches for answers, and as her attraction to Kai intensifies, what she learns will lead her to question everything she thought she knew--about life, death, love, identity, and the true nature of reality.

Nif is a talented singer trapped in a small hometown. Though she thrives in her choir, she longs for a life in Hollywood. After a breakthrough solo performance, her talents are recognized by a popular media personality, and her hopes for her big break soar, until a devastating accident derails her dreams and confronts her with new and unexpected challenges.

With the help of her family and dear friends, Nif must reassemble the pieces of her life and discover a wellspring of inner strength. In the process, her aggressive optimism becomes a source of inspiration, not only for herself but for those around her.

A unique coming-of-age story, Aggressive Optimism explores the complex landscape of mental health, the importance of solidarity, and the power of perseverance.

Jessica's storybook romance turns to tragedy when she is widowed shortly before Amber's birth. Despite her grief, she makes a promise that her daughter will live a happy life. But her pledge is tested when Amber is diagnosed with cancer after her fourth birthday.

Just as she fought off the monsters lurking under her bed, Amber's warrior spirit prevails against the monster that has invaded her body. And after months of harrowing treatments, when it seemed there was no end in sight, Amber's doctor utters the magical word--remission.

Eight years later, Amber is on the verge of adolescence. In another twist of fate, they are thrust back into the nightmare when her cancer returns. Amber responds by showing the same tenacity she had when she was small and vows to live her life to the fullest. To celebrate her decision, they take up residence in the historic town of Placerville, California, at the foot of the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountains.

It is here that Amber makes an unusual friendship with an orphaned deer she names Jane Doe. She also meets Nathan, a cute musician. Will she experience her first kiss without the shadow that has darkened most of her life? Whatever happens, Amber is determined to live her life her way.

Author Gloria Galloway is a cancer survivor and is committed to bringing awareness and help to find a cure for neuroblastoma, an insidious disease which has impacted families around the world. To further that cause, a percentage of the proceeds from Amber's Way will be donated to the Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation, Bloomingdale, Illinois.

Quelle est donc cette Menace qui terrorise Mégane ? Mathis ne comprend plus sa jumelle. Pourquoi refuse-t-elle de manger ? Selon leur père, elle ne pèse pas plus qu'un p'tit oiseau. Une psychothérapeute saura-t-elle l'aider ? Ou encore les confidences de Jerzy, son petit ami, lui porteront-elles secours ?

Dès le début du roman, nous comprenons que Mégane souffre d'un trouble du comportement alimentaire complexe, mais ce qui se cache derrière la Menace nous est inconnu et nous tiendra en haleine. Parviendra-t-elle à vaincre ce qu'elle perçoit comme un danger ?