PetPet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look? There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with the lesson that the city is safe for everyone. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature who some might call monstrous but, in reality, is anything but, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has emerged from one of her mother's paintings to hunt a true monster and

Bo must adjust to her new sisters and a music-minded blended family that is much larger

has embezzled thousands of dollars from her firm's clients

including divine will

marches have been an invaluable tool for bringing about social change

full of gorgeous lyricism and imagery

educational

endure the long commitments

this is a potent book for those who want to speak the truth

Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high

Ailey fights a battle for belonging that's made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma

But Athena's a literary darling

an American-born girl Nigerian girl