Yoon Ha

May 26, 2024 | slj.com | Lauren Ho |Karin Greenberg |Yoon Ha |Dos Santos

Gr 9 Up–Agnes Chan attends an international school in Kuala Lumpur. A rising track star who is waiting to finalize a college recruitment deal in America, she has a clear path to the future. A scholarship will secure her dreams of making it big and take the weight off her family’s uncertain finances. Agnes’s only obstacle is her rival and track team cocaptain, Royce Taslim. Things come as easy to him as they do to his wealthy family.

May 26, 2024 | slj.com | Serena Kaylor |Emily Walker |Yoon Ha |Dos Santos

Gr 9 Up–Marlowe is left feeling like a failure when she is dumped by her boyfriend before senior year. To win her ex back, Marlowe works out a deal with the mysterious boy Ashton in her English class; she’ll revamp his band’s social media if he teaches her all about romance. What begins as a simple agreement, quickly turns into something more as all the calculations in the world cannot help Marlowe anticipate Ashton Hayes.

May 26, 2024 | slj.com | Amira Walker |Yoon Ha |Dos Santos |Austin Siegemund-Broka

Gr 10 Up–Seventeen-year-old Malik is haunted by the memory of his mother’s disappearance. Or was it her death? He can’t be sure. He can only remember the confusion and fear as shadowy, cloaked figures surrounded her, taking her away from him. The opportunity to find answers falls in his lap when he gets a letter from a grandmother in New Orleans he never knew he had, inviting him to stay with her, leading him to Caiman University, an HBCU for kids just like him—kids who’ve inherited magic.

May 26, 2024 | slj.com | Hope Jahren |Kelly Kingrey-Edwards |Yoon Ha |Dos Santos

. Jun. 2024. 464p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9780593484111. COPY ISBN Gr 7 Up–In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain gives a scant 30-or-so pages to Mary Jane, “the red-headed one.” Twain’s readers are left with the confidence that Mary Jane has stolen Huck’s heart, but no backstory to explain how or why this should be so. In this companion piece to Twain’s classic, Jahren delivers Mary Jane’s story in vivid, heart-pounding, nail-biting, soul-stirring detail.

May 1, 2024 | slj.com | Nicole Melleby |Jenny Arch |Yoon Ha |Dos Santos

Gr 3-7–No one asked Winnie, 12, but she’s spending the summer with her grandma while her parents work; her mom is pregnant again after several miscarriages and bouts of depression, and no one is talking about it. Winnie’s parents have told her not to tell her grandma that she’s gay, which she’s known since she was four. Being sent away and forced into the closet makes upsets Winnie, but she acquiesces because she wants her mom to be happy.