A day can change everything in this exclusive short story from the award-winning author of I Am Thunder, written for World Book Day 2020. Fifteen-year-old Salma Hashbi has been caught with her boyfriend in a totally humiliating misunderstanding. Instantly accused of being easy, she is shunned by everyone at school, shamed by her community and worst of all has disappointed her mum. Enough is enough and Salma decides to fight back against the prejudice and rumours and audition for the role of her dreams. But on the hottest day of the year, with everything against her, can Salma make it in time and show the world who she really is? A powerful story of standing up and standing out from the Branford Boase Award-winning Muhammad Khan. Views: 98
Philly native Roberta Forest is a precocious rebel with the soul of a poet. The thirteen-year-old is young, gifted, black, and Catholic—although she's uncertain about the Catholic part after she calls Thomas Jefferson a hypocrite for enslaving people and her nun responds with a racist insult. Their ensuing fight makes Roberta question God and the important adults in her life, all of whom seem to see truth as gray when Roberta believes it's black or white. An upcoming essay contest, writing poetry, and reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X all help Roberta cope with the various difficulties she's experiencing in her life, including her parent's troubled marriage. But when she's told she's ineligible to compete in the school's essay contest, her explosive reaction to the news leads to a confrontation with her mother, who shares some family truths Roberta isn't ready for. Set against the backdrop of Watergate and the post-civil rights movement era, Angel... Views: 98
When she's mortally wounded in the Great War, Tam staggers to the Wanderwood—a place of treacherous elves and dark magic. But instead of death, she finds pointed ears and a potential ally. Views: 98
She spent her life hiding from her past. She will only get one chance to change everything.Kaithria Zarah Keith has been alone and on the run her whole life, hiding the secrets of her past. She is known only as Kaithria; a quiet, mysterious, beautiful woman with black hair and exotic golden, tawny eyes that no one in the Highlands has ever seen before.Kaithria's world is about to change when she travels with Lady Catriona MacKay to her new home at Kinbrace, the residence of the renowned warrior Keir Maxwell Gunn. Keir is the most attractive man Kaithria has ever laid eyes on. Strong and confident as no other man in Scotland, he immediately gives Kaithria a sense of safety that she had not felt for years.But even if Kaithria's horrendous past had not made her avoid contact with all men, suspicion and disapproval await her, the moment she sets foot on Kinbrace. To her utmost disappointment, the Gunn Clan and her own, the Keiths, might be neighbors, but are also sworn enemies!At Kinbrace, she is mistreated by those who wish her dead, yet, Keir does not care that she is from an enemy clan, or that she looks different. He seems to take a liking to her, and his unexpected support makes her for the first time in years question her choices;Does she stay to fight and reveal who she really is, or does she return to a life of hiding? Views: 97
