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This stellar debut about losing and finding family, forging unlikely friendships, and searching for answers to big questions will resonate with fans of Erin Entrada Kelly and Rebecca Stead.

The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together.

Benjamin Burns doesn’t like science, but he can’t get enough of Spacebound, a popular comic book series. When he finds a sketch that suggests that his dad created the comics, he’s thrilled. Too bad his dad walked out years ago, and Benji has no way to contact him.

Though Ro and Benji were only supposed to be science class partners, the pair become unlikely friends, and Ro even figures out a way to reunite Benji and his dad. But Benji hesitates, which infuriates Ro. Doesn’t he realize how much Ro wishes she could be in his place?

As the two face bullying, grief, and their own differences, Benji and Ro try to piece together clues to some of the biggest questions in the universe.

A Washington Post KidsPost Summer Book Club selection * A Junior Library Guild Selection * A Bank Street Best Book of the Year

For fans of Kelly Yang and Rebecca Stead, this touching middle grade novel maps one girl’s quest to remember her grandfather through his scavenger hunts; reconnect with her family; and fight for her community in her rapidly changing hometown. Winner of the APALA Youth Literature Award!

Thanks to her Ye-Ye’s epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone—from her best friends to her older sister—is abandoning her.

After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and Nai-Nai’s friends for company. When a new boy from Ruby’s grade, Liam Yeung, starts showing up too, Ruby’s humiliation is complete.

But Nai-Nai, her friends, and Liam all surprise Ruby. She finds herself working with Liam, who might not be as annoying as he seems, to help save a historic Chinatown bakery that’s being priced out of the neighborhood. And alongside Nai-Nai, who is keeping a secret that threatens to change everything, Ruby retraces Ye-Ye’s scavenger hunt maps in an attempt to find a way out of her grief—and maybe even find herself. 

A great graduation gift, this collection of stories explores college life, love, and identity—perfect for fans of She Gets the Girl and The CW''s All American(Homecoming)!Catalyst Awards Winner for Best YA Fiction!Welcome to UMB, where...-Aarti attends orientation armed with a detailed four-year plan...that might not go as expected-Fray is looking for a Jewish community on campus that they can actually feel comfortable in-Deepika meets her cute neighbor while recovering from heartbreak over fall break-Quinn learns to embrace their interest in makeup after meeting a new crush-Salomé struggles with anxiety while trying to make new friends-Arisha worries about friends, finals, and disappointing her family as the fall semester comes to an end-Rani doesn''t know how to break the news at her family''s New Year''s party that she''s considering a career change-Trina suddenly loses her friend group and has to find a new one-Ruby realizes she may have a crush on her RA...who''s a girl-Sophie goes on a spring break road trip to help rescue her roommate''s stuffed panda-Emma and Valerie realize they might actually have feelings for each other...but they''re about to graduateTold over the course of one academic year, this collection features students from different cultures, genders, and interests learning more about who they are and who they want to be as they explore the ways university life can be stressful and confusing and exciting and fulfilling!Contributors include Jake Maia Arlow, Arushi Avachat, Boon Carmen, Ananya Devarajan, Camryn Garrett, Christina Li, Racquel Marie, Oyin, Laila Sabreen, Michael Waters, and Joelle Wellington.

At night, the garden comes alive... Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in Christina Li''s completely addictive and beautifully haunting gothic page-turner.Vivian Yin is dead. The trailblazing starlet was the first Chinese actress to win an Oscar ­- but at what should have been the peak of her career, she became a recluse. The rest of her life was shrouded in mystery...Now, her daughters gather for the reading of her will. They expect to inherit their childhood home: a grand Southern California manor house with a sprawling, labyrinthine garden. But due to a last-minute change to the will, the house is passed on to another family instead. The two families haven''t seen each other for decades - not since the tragedy that fractured all of their lives.Vying for the estate, both families move into the crumbling, vine-covered manor. As Vivian''s daughters race to piece together what happened in the last weeks of their mother''s life, they soon discover they are being haunted by something far more sinister and vengeful than just their memories. After so many years of silence, will the families finally confront the truth behind the house''s origins and the last, tragic summer they spent there? Or will the manor of dreams - and its deadly secrets - finally lay claim to its owners?Praise for The Manor of Dreams:''A true modern classic. The Manor of Dreams is beautiful, eerie, and woven with enough intrigue to hold all who enter captive. Christina Li remains unmatched in breathing characters to life - and the hauntings thereafter'' Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of Immortal Longings''The Manor of Dreams peels back the promises of the American Dream to reveal something more painful, more heartbreaking, and ultimately, more true. An ambitious, evocative meditation on the hurts passed down across generations - and how we heal'' Grace D. Li, New York Times bestselling author of Portrait of a Thief ''Richly imagined... Fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia''s Mexican Gothic ought to take note of this beautiful and haunting novel'' Publishers Weekly''Packed with gothic plot, gushing blood, choking clods of dirt, and angry ghosts - a smorgasbord for devotees'' Kirkus''A bejewelled puzzle box to unlock'' Shelf Awareness''A lushly crafted haunted house gothic, full of family secrets and forbidden romance and grounded in Hollywood''s long history of racism and patriarchy'' CrimeReads''A clever, unexpected, and lush ghost story. I curled up with The Manor of Dreams and read it over a single weekend'' Lisa See, author of Lady Tan''s Circle of Women''Haunting, tender, and intoxicating. Written with gorgeous prose and unforgettable characters, Li''s gothic adult debut will leave you devastated until the very end, and then long after you''ve put the book down'' Carolyn Huynh, author of The Fortunes of Jaded Women''Deliciously eerie, culturally vibrant, and historically profound, The Manor of Dreams is a dark pleasure'' Jamie Ford, author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet