Fiction

After a solar flare changes the trajectory of Halley’s Comet to collide with Earth, the planet’s inhabitants are all but doomed. Only a handful of people are chosen to keep the human race alive on another planet, including twelve-year old Petra Peña and her Latinx family. Although Petra longs to stay with her storytelling grandmother, she at least hopes to become a cuentista in this new world.

Willodeen loves nature. In fact, she would much rather be outside, alone, away from everyone, and surrounded by her favorite creatures, screechers. As her eleventh birthday approaches, Willodeen notices how much things have changed in the outside she adores. Perchance, her village, is on the precipice of a calamity because the annual migration of hummingbears to their blue willow trees is threatened.

Almost a year ago, Sila’s mom left for Turkey to track down the immigration paperwork required to return to the United States and to her family. Throughout the year, Sila has had to navigate life without one of her life’s most important people.

High up in the Andes Mountains in Bolivia, Ana and her family struggle to survive. They struggle to make enough money to eat, struggle to live with an abusive father, and struggle to hold on to hope for a better future.

Stevie does what she can to know things. Whether it be creatures lurking in the deep ocean or stars and constellations in the night sky, she understands that knowledge is power. And Stevie’s knowledge gives her strength to quell anxious thoughts and feelings that threaten her peace.

Rose Alice Anders is meant for great things. Ever since she was born, her father, has believed that she will be just as great, just as talented, and just as special as he is. Rose’s father is Wendell Anders, the greatest magic catcher of Belling Bright, and he thinks that Rose, or Little Luck, will carry on his legacy.