Realistic Fiction
Wesley Wilder has big plans for this day. Her poem for Indigenous People’s Day will be printed in the school newspaper, and she looks forward to reading it aloud in class. She also plans to ask her crush, Ryan Thomas, to the TOLO dance. However, her day takes one unexpected turn after the next.
Maya and Chaya are identical twins and nearly inseparable. Each is the other’s world around which they orbit. Yet, they’re also unique, and those differences allow them to shine in their own ways, especially when it comes to music.
George is transgender. While she knows her gender identity, everyone else does not. When George’s teacher announces that the class play will be Charlotte’s Web, George sees this as an opportunity to embrace and show who she really is.
When Chase Ambrose wakes up in the hospital, he does not remember anything. Not his name, not his own mother, and certainly not how he fell off the roof of his home. Faced with the daunting task of trying to figure out who he is, Chase has a lot of work ahead of him.
When Mac Delaney is given a copy of Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic for literature circle, he’s surprised to find a few words blacked out. Since Mac Delaney is not a young person that keeps quiet when a wrong has been committed, he teams up with his friends to discover what the black rectangles are hiding.
Amidst the beauty of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, Akira and her father witness the unforgiving destruction of an intense wildfire that threatens to overcome them on a leisure horseback ride. In Miami, Florida, Hurricane Reuben barrels down a city ill-prepared to cope with a storm of a lifetime, and Natalie is trapped in Rueben’s path. In Churchill, Manitoba, Owen and his friend get stranded on the tundra and must survive a polar bear attack, struggling to fend off more starving bears as they trek back to their home.
