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Hiding her identity as the developer of an elite online role-playing game, seventeen-year-old Black honors student Kiera,  one of the only Black students in her school, is targeted with violent racism when an in-game dispute escalates into a player’s murder.

Welcome to high school. Brace yourself for too much homework, too much attention from dangerous seniors, and no idea what your Spanish teacher is talking about. Or your math teacher, for that matter.

In Smartbomb, journalists Heather Chaplin and Aaron Ruby take the reader behind the scenes at gaming conventions, into powerhouse think tanks where new games are created, into the thick of the competition at cyberathlete tournaments, and into the homes of gamers for whom playing a role in a virtual world has assumed more relevance and reality than life in the real world.

Will Tuppence is a 14-year old who likes to be in control. Playing chess-a game at which he excels — he likes to see the entire board. Will learns that — unlike chessmen — friends, family, even protons can be beyond one’s sway, making this coming-of-age story plausible and unusual.

 This book is the sequel to P.S. Longer Letter Later and is about the relationship between two long-distance friends, Elizabeth and Tara.They used to write letters to each other, but now they’re both addicted to e-mail.

Nina is a Lipan Apache girl in our world. She’s always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he’s been cast from home. He’s found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli’s best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven’t been in centuries. And there are some who will kill to keep them apart. Darcie Little Badger, author of Eltasoe, draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to weave another unforgettable tale of monsters, magic, and family. 

Betrayed by Raj, who she thought she was fated to marry, Princeton, New Jersey, high school senior Winnie Mehta teams with fellow film fan Dev Khanna to get her life back on track and find her true soul mate.