![]() ![]() The only problem is that the instructor and all the students think she’s a girl named Kay Nakamura–and Yumi doesn’t correct them.Īs this case of mistaken identity unravels, Yumi must decide to stand up and reveal the truth or risk losing her dreams and disappointing everyone she cares about. ![]() One day after class, Yumi stumbles on an opportunity that will change her life: a comedy camp for kids taught by one of her favorite YouTube stars. Instead of spending the summer studying her favorite YouTube comedians, Yumi is enrolled in test-prep tutoring to qualify for a private school scholarship, which will help in a time of hardship at the restaurant. Her notebook is filled with mortifying memories that she’s reworked into comedy gold. On the inside, Yumi is ready for her Netflix stand-up special. On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids calling her Yu-MEAT because she smells like her family’s Korean barbecue restaurant. Page Length: 320 pages (paperback edition) ![]() Genre: Middle Grade, Fiction, Comteporary “Stand Up, Yumi Chung” by Jessica Kim (2020) Book Review: “Stand Up, Yumi Chung” by Jessica Kim ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Allison Saft effortlessly wove together an atmospheric and enthralling tale. The thing that initially drew me into this story from page one, aside from the promise of a top tier fantasy romance of course, was the writing. ![]() Maggie and Wes make an unlikely team – a charismatic but troubled boy, and a girl who has endured life on the outskirts of a town that never welcomed her. But as the hunt takes over, the pair are drawn together as they uncover a darker magic that may put everything they hold dear in peril…Ĭontent warnings: animal death, abuse, violence, hate crimes, antisemitism, death, parental neglect, xenophobia Fired from every apprenticeship he’s landed, this is his last chance. This is her chance to bring her home.īut the rules state that only teams of two can join the hunt, and while Maggie is known as the best sharpshooter in town, she needs an alchemist.Įnter Wes Winters. Whoever tracks down and kills the hala in the Halfmoon Hunt will earn fame and riches – and if Maggie wins the hunt, she knows her mother will want to celebrate her. But when Maggie spots a legendary ancient fox-creature on her porch, her fate is changed forever. Maggie’s mother is an alchemist who has recently left town, leaving Maggie with just her bloodhound for company. In the dark, gothic town of Wickdon, Maggie Welty lives in an old creaking manor. ![]() Source: Review copy provided by the publisher ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If she does not pass them, she won’t be eligible to receive her Soul Gem which is their version of a wand.Īnne and her friends enter a forest they have been forbidden to enter so they can try and break this ancient spell that’s on Anne. Anne also falls in love with someone at the academy causing her to have a complicated love life as she also has to deal with her boyfriend she had to leave back home.Īs Anne struggles with everything she has to face, she is then plagued by nightmares from an old ancient spell which adds more stress to her as she tries to pass her exams. ![]() She makes some friends but she also gains enemies alongside battling creatures she thought where only in fairy tales and meeting vampires, werewolves, and other magical beings. She soon finds out what those voices truly are and that she is a witch, but she also has special abilities which are made more unique than other witch’s as she is one of the last of a dying race.Īnne is taken to an Academy with other witches and wizards like herself. She begins hearing voices that only she can hear which made her question her sanity. Anuanna – pronounced Ann-you-anna – is a fantasy romance which follows Anne through her eyes as her life drastically changes so suddenly. ![]() ![]() Suddenly she finds herself caught in a web of magic, intrigue, passion, and betrayal that stretches across centuries and ultimately reveals that Aurelia is the final piece of a deadly apocalyptic plan that is only days away.Īll Aurelia wants is to reclaim her life and reunite with those she loved and lost but with the end of the world looming, she's forced to unravel the dark secrets of the distant past before she can get that chance. ![]() ![]() When Aurelia awakens from her magic-induced sleep, it is to the face of a rescuer she didn't expect, in a body she doesn't understand, and into a world she no longer recognizes.ĭesperate to know what happened to Conrad, Zan, and Kellan after the events at Greythorne Manor, Aurelia follows the threads they left behind straight into the forest. Get ready to be swept away, seduced, and swindled in the wickedly vicious third and final installment in the Bloodleaf series that Laura Sebastian called "enchanting, visceral, and twisty." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In an interview for Time Magazine, Gorman spoke with former First Lady Michelle Obama about how she reached her current level of success, and how her upbringing has impacted her poetry. Her identity as a Black woman, a poet, and an activist contributed to Gorman being the perfect candidate for the occasion. Gorman’s poem spoke to the nation in a unique way unlike what we’ve seen before. It is so incredibly inspiring to see such a successful young woman courageously share her words with the nation on such a momentous day. While being the youngest inaugural poet in our country’s history is an enormous feat in itself, Gorman’s identity as a Black woman is also representative of the increasing diversity we’re beginning to see in President Biden’s cabinet. Gorman is one of six inaugural poets in history, including universally known writers such as Maya Angelou and Robert Frost. Gorman’s poem inspires the belief that one day, the United States will be seen as a unified nation of diverse people and cultures, rather than a politically and socially divided nation of hatred and ignorance. At President Joe Biden’s Inauguration on January 20, we watched Amanda Gorman, the country’s youngest inaugural poet, recite her poem “The Hill We Climb.” Following the horrifying events that took place at the Capitol just a few weeks before, “The Hill We Climb” is a poem of raw emotion and hope for the future. ![]() ![]() ![]() Survivors of an ecological catastrophe brought on by heedless industrialization, the Kesh live in hard-won balance with their environment and between genders. This Library of America edition of her 1985 classic Always Coming Home, prepared in close consultation with the author, features new material added by Le Guin just before her death, including for the first time the complete text of the novella-within-the-novel, Dangerous People. Le Guin, at mid-career, found in her native California the inspiration for what was to be her greatest literary construction: nothing less than an entire ethnography of a future society, the Kesh, living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. A master builder of faraway, fantastic worlds, Ursula K. ![]() ![]() If you're ever looking for a book and it is not listed, please feel free to contact me, I would be happy to look for it in my inventory or put it on my shopping list for the future.īook Barn Boutique since 2004, quality books at reasonable prices. So, that's my schpiel, I hope you choose me. She waltzes from masquerade to masquerade, seducing and stealing with impunityuntil she meets her match in a dark and dangerous lord who vows to unmask her. ![]() All books are delivered directly to the post office, so if you order by 4:00 PM EST, Monday thru Friday, it will most likely ship same day, Saturday and Sunday orders ship out Monday. One bewitching look, the whispered promise of unspeakable ecstasy, and Londons richest and most notorious rakes followed the Brazen Angel like sheepready to be fleeced. Also, only small bends, creases are allowed and of course no missing pages! Light foxing, previous owners names and/or minimal writing/highlighting, may have a remainder mark or stamp on top or bottom of pages. ![]() I also hunt diligently for the best ones, if the spine is broken (bend marks), it can't be more than 50%, in other words, the title and author has to be clear. When I am out buying books I check everything.I even sniff them to make sure they don't smell like smoke or mold, the only thing a book should smell like is a book. The used books I am selling are in A+ to B condition, hand picked by me and only me. ![]() I LOVE books, but hate being disappointed when I order one online. Hi there! This is a little note to let you know about my books. ![]() ![]() At this novel’s core lies a political marriage seen in all its complexity, including tender moments, tense negotiations, angry confrontations, and parental worries over predictions that the family line will end with a Virgin Queen. Something about the Tudors brings out the best in Gregory’s portraiture. Gregory believably depicts this mostly forgotten queen, her moody husband, and the future Henry VIII, shown here as a charmingly temperamental child. Elizabeth must navigate the treacherous waters of marriage, maternity, and mutiny in an age better at betrayal than childbirth. ![]() The royal pair produces an heir and two spares but mistrust continues to abound, particularly between the two mothers-in-law, who are seemingly determined to fight the Wars of the Roses down to the last petal. ![]() As Gregory envisions her, narrator Elizabeth of York-sister to the princes imprisoned in the Tower, mother of Henry VIII, grandmother of Elizabeth I-still loves the vanquished Richard III when she dutifully marries his triumphant challenger, Henry VII. In Gregory’s fifth entry in the Cousins’ War series, marriage unites the upstart House of Tudor with its long-time enemies, the declining House of York, to rule over volatile 1485 England. The White Princess is the latest installment of the Cousins War Saga, picking up where The Kingsmakers Daughter left off Anne Neville and Richard the Third. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington.Īfter a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. ![]() Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. ![]() Maddy did it.Īn outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. When Springville residents-at least the ones still alive-are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Along with a systematic use of obscenity, her seemingly absurd statements actually build toward a specific motive: to shock both men and women out of complacency with society’s sexism. Nevertheless, readers cannot simply dismiss her manifesto as a crazy woman’s tirade. Shortly after her self-publication, Solanas shot and almost killed Andy Warhol, causing even more people to spurn her as insane. Because of articles like “How to Be a Good Housewife” and television shows like Leave It to Beaver from the 1950s, however, society still expected women to remain at home and nurture their families. Sold by Solanas on the streets, it came during a supposedly progressive era at the close of the civil rights movement and the emergence of the anti-war movement. 1 This radical manifesto declared that women must “overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex” (Solanas). In 1967, Valerie Solanas wrote and self-published the SCUM Manifesto, which called for male gendercide and the creation of a superior, all-female society. ![]() |