De: MíPara: MíLa tormenta pasaráNunca es tarde para otorgarte una segunda oportunidad. Cada día puedes empezar de nuevo, aprender de las experiencias que te hirieron, y avanzar hacia un futuro mejor. Por mucho tiempo te has juzgado, y en este viaje, uno de los destinos será el perdón.Mereces cerrar los ojos abrazando tus logros, aunque te sientas muy lejos de la meta, estás avanzando por la escalera de la vida, donde cada peldaño ya es un triunfo.Si estás leyendo esto, es porque nos merecemos un viaje en el que naveguemos sin juzgarnos por cada error, y entendamos que los problemas, aunque se aparezcan juntos y traten de derrumbamos, no lo lograrán. Es tiempo de enfrentar los inconvenientes con paciencia descubriendo esa fortaleza que tenemos. Porque tenemos el poder de empezar de nuevo todas las veces que sean necesarias, recuérdalo.Este libro es para encendernos en la noche mas oscura, para atravesar las crisis, para despedirnos de ese amor que acabó, o de ese amor que se fue al cielo. Un libro para reencontramos, para convertirnos en desconocidos que se vuelven amigos, y tienen derecho a llorar, a reir, a tocar fondo y coger impulso hasta tocar las nubes.Porque después de este viaje, ninguna tempestad va a debilitarnos, saldremos de ella fortalecidos, y con más motivación para superar lo que sea que nos depare la vida. Quizá hoy tienes mucho en tu mente, y piensas que no podras, pero iremos con calma, sin prisa, y poco a poco...La tormenta pasará. Read more

Nunca es tarde para otorgarte una segunda oportunidad. Por mucho tiempo te has juzgado, y en este viaje, uno de los destinos será el perdón. Mereces cerrar los ojos abrazando tus logros, porque, aunque te sientas muy lejos de la meta, estás avanzando por la escalera de la vida, donde cada peldaño ya es un triunfo.Si estás leyendo esto, es porque vamos a intentarlo. Vamos a trabajar por volver a estar bien. Vamos a dejar de juzgarnos por cada error y entender que los problemas, aunque traten de derrumbarnos, no lo lograrán. Es tiempo de enfrentar los inconvenientes y descubrir nuestra fortaleza. Porque tenemos el poder de empezar de nuevo todas las veces que sean necesarias, no lo olvides. Siempre podemos aprender de lo que nos hirió y avanzar hacia un futuro mejor.LA NOCHE OSCURA NO ES ETERNA: Un audiolibro para volver a encendernos. Para atravesar las crisis que nos presente la vida. Para aprender a despedirnos cuando sea necesario, aunque duela, aunque pese, aunque queme. Un audiolibro para reencontrarnos y convertirnos en desconocidos que se vuelven amigos, que tienen derecho a llorar, a reír, y a tocar fondo para coger impulso hasta tocar las estrellas.Ninguna tempestad va a debilitarnos. Saldremos de ella fortalecidos, y con más motivación para superar lo que sea que nos depare la vida. Quizá hoy tienes mucho en tu mente, y piensas que no podrás, pero iremos a nuestro propio ritmo, sin comparaciones, sin prisa, pero con la convicción de que poco a poco...La tormenta pasará.Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish. Read more

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"My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage" is the raw and emotionally charged debut poetry collection by Rose Brik. Rose delves into the intricate layers of the human experience with profound insight. Through her verses, she fearlessly navigates themes of the mother and father wound, childhood trauma, domestic violence, grief, mental health struggles, love, motherhood and ultimately, the process of healing. Her words possess the power to unearth buried emotions and memories, evoking a deep sense of empathy and reflection in her readers."I have my mother's rage,and my father's ability to walk away.this, I've learned, is a very lonely combination"- from my father's eyes, my mother's rage Read more

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Despite being a young master of the Zearthorn sect, Neave is not a cultivator. And if he can have his way, he never will be. Years of daily beatings, bullying, and abuse haven’t been enough to make him change his mind, and the ultimatum from his father won’t be either.Forced to choose between an arranged marriage and a path of cultivation, Neave makes a third choice. In a desperate, last-ditch attempt, he enters a secret vault and encounters a treasure.A book he should have never touched.Trapped in a hellish time loop of death and suffering, he fights waves of demons in an impossible challenge of skill, creativity, and perseverance.What will happen when he finally returns?Oblivious to the apocalypse he had become.Unaware of the horrors he had dragged outside.Grab a copy of this captivating cultivation adventure! Filled with progression, time loops, nightmare realms, and a tons of action waiting for you to immerse yourself in! Read more

In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people…In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash.Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other. Great for summer reading or anytime! Clap When You Land is a Today show pick for “25 children’s books your kids and teens won’t be able to put down this summer!"Plus don't miss Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X and With the Fire on High! Read more

“A lyrical masterpiece.” —School Library Journal (starred review) Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds’s rallying cry to the young dreamers of the world.For Every One is exactly that: for every one. For every one person. For every one who has a dream. But especially for every kid. The kids who dream of being better than they are. Kids who dream of doing more than they almost dare to imagine. Kids who are like Jason Reynolds, a self-professed dreamer. Jason does not claim to know how to make dreams come true; he has, in fact, been fighting on the front line of his own battle to make his own dreams a reality. He expected to make it when he was sixteen. Then eighteen. Then twenty-five. Now, some of those expectations have been realized. But others, the most important ones, lay ahead, and a lot of them involve kids, how to inspire them: All the kids who are scared to dream, or don’t know how to dream, or don’t dare to dream because they’ve NEVER seen a dream come true. Jason wants kids to know that dreams take time. They involve countless struggles. But no matter how many times a dreamer gets beat down, the drive and the passion and the hope never fully extinguishes—because simply having the dream is the start you need, or you won’t get anywhere anyway, and that is when you have to take a leap of faith. A pitch-perfect graduation, baby, or inspirational gift for anyone who needs to me reminded of their own abilities—to dream. Read more

In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. A smart, funny, gorgeous retelling starring all characters of color. Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can’t stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding.But with four wild sisters pulling her in different directions, cute boy Warren vying for her attention, and college applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick’s changing landscape, or lose it all."Zoboi skillfully depicts the vicissitudes of teenage relationships, and Zuri’s outsize pride and poetic sensibility make her a sympathetic teenager in a contemporary story about race, gentrification, and young love." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List") Read more

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. The story follows the titular orphan, who, after being raised in a workhouse, escapes to London, where he meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin, discovers the secrets of his parentage, and reconnects with his remaining family.Oliver Twist unromantically portrays the sordid lives of criminals, and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by painter William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress.In an early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises child labour, domestic violence, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own experiences as a youth contributed as well, considering he spent two years of his life in the workhouse at the age of 12 and subsequently, missed out on some of his education.Oliver Twist has been the subject of numerous adaptations, including a 1948 film of the same title, starring Alec Guinness as Fagin; a highly successful musical, Oliver! (itself adapted into a multiple Academy Award-winning 1968 motion picture), and Disney's animated film Oliver & Company in 1988. Read more

She lost her words but found her voice.All My Rage meets The Poet X in this electric debut that explores a Muslim teen finding her voice in a post-9/11 America.Nida has always been known as Mamou Abdul-Hafeedh’s niece—the poet who will fill her uncle’s shoes after he was wrongfully incarcerated during the war on terror. But for Nida, her poetry letters are her heart and sharing so much of herself with a world that stereotypes her faith and her hijab is not an option.When Nida is illegally frisked at a Democratic Senatorial candidate’s political rally, she writes a scathing poem about the politician, never expecting the letter to go viral weeks before Election Day. Nida discovers her poem has won first place in a national contest, a contest she never entered, and her quiet life is toppled. But worst of all, Nida loses her ability to write poetry. In the aftermath of her win, Nida struggles to balance the expectations of her mother, her uncle, and her vibrant Muslim community with the person she truly wants to be.With a touch of magic and poetry sprinkled throughout, Sarah Mughal Rana's Hope Ablaze is heartbreaking, often funny, and ultimately uplifting, not only celebrating the Islamic faith and Pakistani culture, but simultaneously confronting racism and Islamophobia with unflinching bravery.A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books. Read more

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From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award–winning title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright. Winner of the California Young Reader Medal!Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago’s life has been about making the tough decisions—doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela.The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness.Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it’s not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet despite the rules she thinks she has to play by, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.Plus don't miss Elizabeth Acevedo's Clap When You Land! Read more

Una historia no muy lejana de la realidad, quizás lo sientas como un bocado de aquello que tú también has probado, de la tristeza a raíz de una ruptura nadie se salva, pero en la desesperación por salvar un vínculo que ya está roto cualquiera puede perderse, sobre todo aquellos que olvidaron amarse a sí mismos en el camino por amar a otros. Amar sin límites suena muy bonito, pero tiene sus consecuencias.¿Cómo es que entregarlo todo en una relación no fue suficiente? Es la pregunta que acecha a Sharon por muchas noches seguidas, una chica rota, una niña interior herida, una búsqueda de sentido en lo externo que termina con graves resultados, hasta que un viaje interno es la única opción restante, un proceso de introspección, hasta que el camino conduce a un reencuentro, uno consigo misma.A Sharon nunca le hablaron de lo que realmente es el amor, quizás a ti tampoco, ella también confundió con mariposas en el estómago aquella sensación de caer en el vacío por dejarse a un lado para vivir por otros, ella pensó que los altibajos eran infinitos en una relación, que la manipulación era parte del menú completo en una pareja, ella pensó que una relación solo podía ser de un solo modo, inestable.Acompaña a Sharon en la travesía de hallarle sentido a su dolor, atravesarlo, transformarlo para entonces así reubicarse de nuevo en el presente, logrando hacer las paces consigo misma para nunca más volver a soltarse.Sharon se enfrenta a distintas versiones de sí misma, incluso aquellas que estaban siendo consumidas por el polvo del pasado, la intención no es revivir lo que pasó, la intención de este viaje interno es hacer las paces con su pasado, soltando la culpa acumulada por años, agregándole compasión a su proceso como parte de la lista de ingredientes principales.Todos sabemos que después del caos siempre vamos a poder encontrar la magia, solo hay que estar preparados para reconocerla, lo bueno siempre ha estado ante nuestros ojos, pero la culpa es un lente nubloso que nos impide verlo. La aceptación y el agradecimiento van a llevarte a lugares donde la culpa no puede.Acompaña a Sharon a convertirse en esa mujer que se ama lo suficiente como para irse a tiempo de lugares donde no la hacen feliz, para que pueda dejar de buscar su valor en otras personas, pero sobre todo para que sea capaz de detener aquello que no está bien, logrando así volver a amar, pero esta vez, con límites. Read more

New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year  * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * New York Public Library Best Book of the YearFrom award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. One of the most acclaimed YA novels of the year, this New York Times and USA Today bestseller is a must-read for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo and is now available in paperback! The story that I thoughtwas my lifedidn’t start on the dayI was born Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, because of a biased system he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated. Then, one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. The story that I thinkwill be my life starts todaySuddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it? With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth in a system designed to strip him of both. Read more

Inherited Hunger cuts to the bone, exploring the wounds passed down from parent to child and how it affects every area of life. In this visceral poetry collection, the bestselling author of My Father’s Eyes, My Mother’s Rage unpacks a girl’s life shaped by a mother’s anger and a father’s absence, leaving her starved for love.These poems speak to the pain of generational trauma, the relentless search for belonging, and the fragile hope of survival. Inherited Hunger dares you to confront the darkness head-on and emerge with a hunger that no longer controls you but heals you, finally filling the void."I have an inherited hunger,passed down from generation to generation,waiting to be satiated. we've reached for men,alcohol, food, and drugs, but nothing could ever fill us up.a child will always be hungry until they are fed with love"-Inherited Hunger Read more

A New York Times bestseller and one of 2019's best-reviewed books, a poetic memoir and call to action from the award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she's never written about before. Described as "powerful," "captivating," and "essential" in the nine starred reviews it's received, this must-read memoir is being hailed as one of 2019's best books for teens and adults. A denouncement of our society's failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp, whether aloud, online, or only in their own hearts, SHOUT speaks truth to power in a loud, clear voice-- and once you hear it, it is impossible to ignore. Read more

In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award, was a YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War.Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Words and images are her constant companions, friendly and comforting when the children at school are not. Then a revolution breaks out in Cuba. Margarita fears for her far-away family. When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupts at the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Margarita’s worlds collide in the worst way possible. How can the two countries she loves hate each other so much? And will she ever get to visit her beautiful island again? Read more

This collection introduces readers to eleven British poets born between 1806 and 1914, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Alfred Tennyson, W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, and Dylan Thomas. Includes biographical information, historical background, poetry analysis, and several poems by each writer. Helps readers understand poetry and appreciate the statement by Dylan Thomas: "The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it." Read more

La novela que volvió a revivir en los jóvenes la pasión por la poesía. -Best seller del New York Times. -Novela ganadora del National Book Award, el Michael L. Printz Award, el Boston Globe-Horn Award for Fiction, ell Pura Belpré Author Award y la medalla Carnegie. Xiomara Batista se siente ignorada e incapaz de ocultarse en Harlem. Desde que su cuerpo se volvió curvilíneo, aprendió a dejar que sus puños y su rudeza hablaran por ella. Pero X tiene mucho para decir, por eso descarga su frustración en las páginas de un cuaderno y recita las palabras para sí misma como si fueran plegarias, especialmente después de verse invadida por fuertes sentimientos hacia un chico de la clase de Biología. Ante la determinación de «mami» de forzarla a obedecer las leyes de la iglesia, X comprende que es mejor guardarse sus pensamientos. Cuando la invitan a unirse al club de poesía slam de su escuela, sabe que no podrá hacerlo y mucho menos decir sus palabras en voz alta, a no ser que logre evadir las reglas de mami. Pero aun así no puede dejar de pensar en interpretar sus poemas frente a un público. En alzar su voz. Porque, a pesar de que el mundo no quiera escucharla, Xiomara se niega a permanecer en silencio. «Una historia que volverá a introducir con la fuerza de una bofetada el poder de la poesía y del amor en tu corazón.» Laurie Halsie Anderson, autora de Speak AUTORElizabeth Acevedo es la hija menor y única mujer de inmigrantes dominicanos. Es licenciada en artes escénicas por la Universidad George Washington y tiene una maestría en escritura creativa por la Universidad de Maryland. Con más de catorce años de experiencia en poesía interpretativa, Acevedo es Campeona Nacional de Poesía Slam, miembro de Cave Canem y de CantoMundo y participante del Taller de Escritura Creativa Callaloo. Tiene dos libros de poesía: el folletín Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths y Medusa Reads La Negra’s Palm, ganador del premio Berkshire 2016. Poet X es su primera novela. Vive con su pareja en Washington DC. Puedes conocer más sobre ella en www.acevedowrites.com  Read more