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Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.
Finally there’s a word for it: Fidgital—excessively checking one’s devices. Martyrmony—staying married out of duty. Author of the highly popular “That Should Be a Word” feature in the New York Times Magazine, Lizzie Skurnick delights word lovers with razor-sharp social commentary delivered via clever neologisms. That Should Be a Word is a compendium of 244 of Skurnick’s wittiest wordplays—more than half of them new—arranged in ingenious diagrams detailing their interrelationships. Complete with definitions, pronunciations, usage examples, and illustrations, That Should Be a Word features words on our obsession with food: carbiter—one who asserts that someone else cannot b...
-- New York Times' From Laura Lipmann and Meg Wolizer to Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Traister, each writer uses her word as a vehicle for memoir, cultural commentary, critique, or all three. Spanning the street, the bedroom, the voting booth, and the workplace, these simple words have huge stories behind them -- stories it's time to examine, re-imagine, and change.
Mischief and Malice is a brand new work from an iconic figure in YA literature.
Isabel thinks World War II is a drag--until the horrors of war literally come right into her home.
Afraid of her foster father's advances, fifteen-year-old Sylvia flees and is aided by Walter and Vic who have different motives for helping her.
A warm and charming family story...one can imagine this this story ends where All-of-a-Kind Family begins.--School Library Journal
The stunning sequel to the award-winning Isabel's War tells the story of a young German girl trapped in the Holocaust.
The story of five young Jewish girls growing up in New York's lower east side before the first world war.
In the 1950s, when the society families of Rivertown decide to launch their daughters in an elaborate debut season, beautiful Lynn Chambers is delighted until her father refuses to let her participate in this display of snobbishness and Lynn finds herself ostracized from the community in which she grew up.