'The novel highlights the barriers and abuses faced by many new immigrants both historically and today through short chapters that keep the pace moving toward a happy ending' - Kirkus Reviews Must purchase' - Youth Services Book Review, STARRED Review

'Petra Luna is one of my favorite protagonists in middle grade fiction she is fiery and single-minded when it comes to protecting her family and pursuing her dreams. Petra's first story, Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna, was a New York Public Library Book of the Year and a Texas Bluebonnet Master List Selection. Isn't that what the revolution is about? Her strength and courage will be tested like never before as she fights for herself, her family, and her dreams. Yet Petra also sees in America attitudes she thought she'd left behind on the other side of the Río Grande-people who look down on her mestizo skin and bare feet, who think someone like her doesn't deserve more from life. And for the first time ever, Petra has a chance to learn to read and write. She leads her family from a smallpox-stricken refugee camp on the Texas border to the buzzing city of San Antonio, where they work hard to build a new life. Still, twelve-year-old Petra knows that her abuelita, little sister, and baby brother depend on her to survive. Now that they are safe, Petra and her family can begin again, in this country that promises so much. Petra Luna is in America, having escaped the Mexican Revolution and the terror of the Federales. Strong and determined, Petra Luna returns in a story about the immigrant experience that continues to be relevant today. Dobbs, comes a compelling new novel about building a new life in America. From the award-winning author of Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna, Alda P. Trapped by her deadly double life, Saoirse can't leave the palace until she saves her sister. until he tasks her with investigating a killer plaguing the kingdom. But he is kind, thoughtful, and charming, and she finds herself increasingly drawn to him. Then a blackmailer threatens her sister, and Saoirse's investigation takes her to the royal palace, and her most dangerous job yet: personal bodyguard to the Crown Prince. And all the while, she keeps the biggest secret of all: that she is not always in control of her Siren powers, or her desire to kill. By night, she satisfies her darker urges working as an assassin for dangerous mercenaries. As the last siren in her kingdom, she can sing any man to an early grave - but her very existence is illegal, and if her true identity were ever discovered, it would be her life on the line.īy day, Saoirse disguises herself as a fae, pretending to be the perfect soldier-in-training. The Cruel Prince meets To Kill a Kingdom in this seductive YA fantasy debut, in which a siren must choose between protecting her family and following her heart in a prejudiced kingdom where her existence is illegal.

Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton