Children of the River

Children of the RiverBy: Linda Crew Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child. Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be "a good Cambodian girl" at home. A good Cambodian girl never dates; she waits for her family to arrange her marriage to a Cambodian boy. Yet Sundara and

lushly illustrated and told in accessible and engaging easy-to-understand text for young readers

Author: Sarah Mlynowski  |  English

his streak hits some hilarious snags

Menacing and marvellously written

such as “Why is the sky blue

Brian Coleman fills this void

By: Jeho Son     "[A] thrilling action series

humans and shifters alike live in artificially lit cities designed to keep the darkness at bay

and Roosevelt as they meet at a climactic turning point in the war to hash out the terms of the peace

‘A triumph of imagination and storytelling’ A

on the cusp of great changes in her life

A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative