For Elio Solis, eighth grade fizzes with change. His body teeming with hormones. His feelings that flow like lava. His relationship with Pops, who's always telling him to man up, the Solis way.
For Belén Dolores Itzel del Toro, nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She’s at risk of not graduating.
As the contentious 2017 presidential election looms and protests rage across every corner of the city, life in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, churns louder and faster.
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In this moving true story, Kao Kalia Yang shares her experiences as a young Hmong refugee navigating life at home and at school.
First-generation Filipino siblings JJ and Althea struggle to belong at school. JJ wants to fit in with the crowd, while Althea wants to be accepted as she is.
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José Andrés’s love of cooking began as a young boy in Spain as he gathered the wood to make the fire that would cook the paella just right.
In 1492, during the Spanish Inquisition, Benvenida and her family are banished from Spain for being Jewish. They journey by foot and by sea, eventually settling in Istanbul.
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During World War Two, in the concentration camp Terezin, a group of Jewish children and their devoted teacher planted and nurtured a smuggled-in sapling.