Windy Lake First Nation is hosting the annual Trappers Festival, and the four Mighty Muskrats are excited about the sled-dog races and the chance to visit with family and friends from far and wide. But during the Teen Sled Race, the lead dog is the victim of a frightening accident that may be more than it seems.
Between mysterious strangers seen lurking by the trail and a loud group of animal rights protestors, the Muskrats have a lot of suspects. Despite the chill of winter, the case is heating up for Sam, Otter, Atim and Chickadee!
The fourth book in the Mighty Muskrats Mystery series, The Case of the Rigged Race is a warm-hearted window into the lives of people living in remote indigenous communities. The plot revolves around the attempted poisoning of sled dogs during the Windy Lake Teen Dogsled Race, and the mystery of who might be behind it.
The true story of racial inequality—and resistance to it—is the prologue to our present. You can see it in where we live, where we go to school, where we work, in our laws and in our leadership. Unequal presents a gripping account of the struggles that shaped America and the insidiousness of racism, and demonstrates how inequality persists. As readers meet some of the many African American people who dared to fight for a more equal future, they will also discover a framework for addressing racial injustice in their own lives.
This book is banned in Texas. And Florida. And wherever else school boards think kids are too fragile to learn the truth. Are they right?
Slavery ended a long time ago, they say. And Martin Luther King Jr. took care of any racism left over, they say. Let’s move on, they say.
And then they’ll ban this book, and books like it, which tell you the truth: that the effects of slavery, Jim Crow, red-lining, voter suppression, mass incarceration, environmental racism and unconscious biases have created a United States that is, in fact, Unequal.
From the author of Meet Cute Diary comes a delectable rom-com that’s brimming with zest and a sprinkle of sweetness. A must-read for fans of Casey McQuiston and Julian Winters.
Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses—an Asian American café and a Puerto Rican bakery—and Gabi’s lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count.
Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dreams, Gabi sees his parents’ shop as his future. Stuck under the weight of his parents’ expectations, Theo’s best shot at leaving Vermont means first ensuring his parents’ livelihood is secure.
So, when a new fusion café threatens both shops, Theo and Gabi realize an unfortunate truth—they can achieve their goals only by working together to cook up an underground bakery operation and win back their customers. But can they put aside their differences long enough to save their parents’ shops or will the new feelings between them boil over?
According to Professor Angus, Estaban was found one day outside of the Sleep Lab: a young boy lost and abandoned. Angus and his son Tristan quickly welcome him into their family and their field of work, which is exploring nightmares and allowing patients a good and safe night’s sleep. But in Esteban’s nightmares of late, he wakes up in his old house, reunited with his parents as if they were never separated. To wake up and actually return to his real life, Esteban must travel into the woods and face his own fears. Can The Nightmare Brigade help one of their own awaken from his own nightmares?
Political tensions are heightening on the streets of Stepney, and as Oswald Mosley comes to power, brother and sister Mikey and Elsie begin to see friendships torn apart. Award-winning author Tanya Landman explores the rise of antisemitic fascism in 1930s London in this gripping new story.
Life has always been tough on the streets of Stepney, where Mikey and Elsie are growing up in a vermin-infested slum nicknamed “Paradise.”
But the rise of antisemitic fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts in the 1930s stirs up trouble between families who have lived closely together for years, and Elsie sees friendships torn apart.
When Elsie and Mikey attend a Mosley rally, intending to heckle and cause trouble, they soon see how dangerous the situation has become. But out in the streets the fascists find that people will stand and fight against them and against hatred in what becomes the dramatic Battle of Cable Street.