Winner of the Christopher Medal and a "heart-wrenching" Al Roker's Book Club selection on the Today Show. Zulaikha hopes. She hopes for peace, now that the Taliban have been driven from Afghanistan; a good relationship with her hard stepmother; and one day even to go to school, or to have her cleft palate fixed. …
In a YA trilogy like no other, Trent Reedy has raised the most primal questions of our national existence: Do we owe our greatest loyalty to our friends? Our state? Our country? Our party? How do we reconcile our individual rights and common needs? What keeps us all united -- and what happens if we fall apart?Now, in …
Fulfilling a lifelong dream of serving his country by enrolling in the National Guard, Danny Wright misfires during a routine crowd-control mission in Boise, triggering a public and political maelstrom that slowly escalates toward a second American civil war. By the author of Words in the Dust.