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I Will Always Write Back
I Will Always Write Back
by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda with Liz Welch
by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda with Liz Welch
The true story of an all-American girl and a boy from an impoverished city in Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever.
It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kids picked countries like France or Germany, but when Caitlin saw Zimbabwe written on the board, it sounded like the most exotic place she had ever heard of--so she chose it. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen pal letter. There were only ten letters, and forty kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got the first one. That letter was the beginning of a correspondence that spanned six years and changed two lives.In this compelling dual memoir, Caitlin and Martin recount how they became best friends and better people through letters. Their story will inspire readers to look beyond their own lives and wonder about the world at large and their place in it.
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With the Fire on High
With the Fire on High
by Elizabeth Acevedo
by Elizabeth Acevedo
With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions. The one place she can let her responsibilities go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Still, she knows she doesn’t have enough time for her school’s new culinary arts class, doesn’t have the money for the class’s trip to Spain and shouldn’t still be dreaming of someday working in a real kitchen. But even with all the rules she has for her life and all the rules everyone expects her to play by. Once Emoni starts cooking, her only real choice is to let her talent break free.
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That Night
That Night
by Amy Giles
by Amy Giles
A terrible tragedy shakes the Queens neighborhood where Jessica Nolan and Lucas Rossi live. The year since the shooting has played out differently for Jess and Lucas, both of whom were affected by that night in eerily similar, and deeply personal, ways. Lucas has taken up boxing and lives under the ever-watchful eye of his overprotective parents, while trying to put good into the world through random acts of kindness to pay back a debt he feels he owes the universe for taking the wrong brother. Jess struggles to take care of her depressed mother, with the help of her elderly next-door neighbor, and tries to make ends meet. Without her best friend, who’s across the country at boarding school, and her brother, who died that night, Jess feels alone in the world. When Jess and Lucas's paths cross at their shared after-school job, they start to become friends… and then more. Their community and their families were changed forever by a senseless act of violence. But as Jess and Lucas fall in love, they'll learn to help each other heal and move forward, together.
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