Nice Try, Jane Sinner

Frazzled: Ordinary Mishaps and Inevitable Catastrophes

Boy Underwater

Bad Apple

Burn Our Bodies Down

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond

Donuthead

The Schwa Was Here

When Vee Crawford-Wong’s history teacher assigns an essay on his family history, Vee knows he’s in trouble. His parents—Chinese-born dad and Texas-bred Mom—are mysteriously and stubbornly close-lipped about his ancestors. So, he makes it all up and turns in the assignment. And then everything falls apart.

After a fistfight, getting cut from the basketball team, offending his best friend, and watching his grades plummet, one thing becomes abundantly clear to Vee: No one understands him! If only he knew where he came from… So Vee does what anyone in his situation would do: He forges a letter from his grandparents in China, asking his father to bring their grandson to visit. Astonishingly, Vee’s father agrees. But in the land of his ancestors, Vee learns that the answers he seeks are closer to home then he could have ever imagined.

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Nice Try, Jane Sinner

Lianne Oelke, 2018

Frazzled: Ordinary Mishaps and Inevitable Catastrophes

Booki Vivat, 2017

Boy Underwater

Adam Baron, 2018

Bad Apple

T. R. Burns, 2012

Burn Our Bodies Down

Rory Power, 2020

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond

Brenda Woods, 2014

Donuthead

Sue Stauffacher, 2003

The Schwa Was Here

Neal Shusterman, 2004