“Newcomer Arnold’s protagonist, 16-year-old Mim Malone, is as hold-nothing-back honest as they come, which makes the narrative she provides about her outlandish trek from Mississippi to Cleveland wholly enjoyable. Mim, blind in one eye from a solar eclipse and suffering from a ‘misplaced epiglottis’ that results in unpredictable spells of vomiting, is reeling from her parents’ divorce and an unclear psychiatric diagnosis when she is dragged to Mississippi by her father and new stepmother. Determined to get back to her mother, Mim hops a bus to Cleveland, beginning an Odysseus-like adventure …” — Publishers Weekly, starred review
“As a member of the Scintilla, 17-year-old Cora possesses the rare ability to see people’s auras, making her both an object of desire and a target for harm. … Cora, possessing both her own powers and a fierce determination to protect those she loves, is no shrinking violet. … Passion and power are the driving forces behind this series that continues to deliver.” — Kirkus
“High school junior Etta juggles many identities, none of which seem to fit quite right. She’s bisexual, but shunned by her group of friends, the self-named Disco Dykes, who can’t forgive her for dating a boy. She has an eating disorder, but never weighs little enough to qualify as officially anorexic. She’s a dancer, but just tap these days, not ballet, because as a short, curvy, African American teen, she doesn’t seem to have the right look for ballet. … Moskowitz masterfully negotiates all of the issues, never letting them overwhelm the story, and shows the intersectionality of the many aspects of Etta’s identity.” — School Library Journal
“Luisa ‘Lulu’ Mendez dreams of leaving her dead-end small town behind. She cannot wait to immerse herself in the University of San Diego’s biochemistry program in the fall. So she is devastated when her dad admits that he has lost her college funds in a bad investment. Lulu is determined to make her college dreams a reality, and when a confiscated distillery turns up at the junkyard where she and her best friend work, she sees it as a bit of serendipitous luck. Although Lulu is not a party girl, she is aware that the moonshine business, illegal or not, is still thriving in the rural mountains of Virginia. … Lulu narrates the story in second-person, as a confessional of sorts to Mason, and readers will race to turn the pages as it becomes apparent that Lulu’s gamble may result in the destruction of the people she cares about the most. A wholly original and most satisfying debut.” — School Library Journal
“Lauer and Melnick team up to present a poem apiece from 100 "younger” poets who’ve published in media ranging from Twitter to the New Yorker. This cross section of contemporary poetry is promoted for grades nine and up, making no concessions to youth. The language and themes of a number of these selections are as adult as they come, probing suicide, mental illness, drug abuse, rape, racism, police brutality, AIDS and other cataclysmic life events, along with tamer reminiscences of home and more common rites of passage like heartbreak, sexual and recreational drug experimentation, and identity formation. … Incisive and occasionally brash.“ — Kirkus
Book Description: The walls of Ninurta keep its citizens safe.
Kai always believed the only danger to the city came from within. Now, with a rebel force threatening the fragile government, the walls have become more of a prison than ever.
To make matters worse, as Avan explores his new identity as an Infinite, Kai struggles to remind him what it means to be human. And she fears her brother, Reev, is involved with the rebels. With the two people she cares about most on opposite sides of a brewing war, Kai will do whatever it takes to bring peace. But she’s lost her power to manipulate the threads of time, and she learns that a civil war might be the beginning of something far worse that will crumble not only Ninurta’s walls but also the entire city.
In this thrilling sequel to Gates of Thread and Stone, Kai must decide how much of her humanity she’s willing to lose to protect the only family she’s ever known.
"Intrigue, romance and the rich details of Victorian life are the focus in the fourth installment of this mystery series featuring a complex female detective. As the book opens, heroine Mary Quinn is living a life she could not have imagined in her earlier years. She is independent and beginning a detective agency with her fiance, James Easton, who would like to marry soon. Her sense of gratitude causes her to take one more case for the Agency, where she learned her trade. … Readers of the series will find this addition deeply satisfying as both a mystery and a historical romance.” — Kirkus
Book Description: Harlow Wintergreen has been named the new Matriarch of VisionCrest, the powerful religious organization previously led by her father. There’s just one problem. The real Harlow is trapped inside a Cambodian temple, and her double, the evil Isiris, is out in the world masquerading as her.
With VisionCrest at her command, Isiris moves all the pieces into position for her genocidal endgame. To stop her twin from unleashing a super-virus designed to eradicate civilization, Harlow must escape the temple and reunite with the Resistance. But in trying to save the people she loves, Harlow gets a taste of the power Isiris wields … and her battle against the horror takes on a new and dangerous dimension.
“Smith (Grasshopper Jungle) turns in another audacious performance, this time a wild tale of summer camps, adoptive families, mad bombers, masturbation slang, illegal biological research, and an icebound 19th-century ship. Ariel, a 14-year-old orphan caught up in a civil war in an unnamed foreign nation, has been brought to the U.S. by an executive from the mysterious Merrie-Seymour Research Group. … Fans of Smith’s raunchy, profane, and provocative work will find this funny but morally serious tale deeply appealing.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review
"What would it feel like to wake up normal? It’s a question most people would never have cause to ask—and the one 14-year-old Adam Spencer Ross longs to have answered. … Adam’s first-person account of his struggle to cope with the debilitating symptoms of OCD while navigating the complexities of everyday teen life is achingly authentic. Much like Adam, readers will have to remind themselves to breathe as he performs his ever worsening OCD rituals. Yet Toten does a masterful job bringing Adam to life without ever allowing him to become a one-dimensional poster boy for a teen suffering from mental illness.” — Kirkus, starred review
“Sixteen-year-old Julio Ramirez Jr. dreams of being a junior Nacional and playing for Cuba against the best young players around the world. Baseball is ‘practically a religion’ in Cuba, and Julio’s father was like a Cuban god, an all-star pitcher for the Cuban National Team. Now, having defected, he’s a star for the Miami Marlins. But instead of pride, Julio feels resentment toward his father for abandoning his family to a life of poverty while he, the great El Fuego, lives the high life in Miami with his multimillion-dollar contract. … An entertaining tale of baseball, family and loyalty.” — Kirkus
Book Description: After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old Mai, a young Vietnamese girl of Chinese descent, is torn from a life of privilege and forced to flee across the South China Sea in the hold of a fishing trawler. Mai finds tenuous safety in a refugee camp on an island off the coast of Malaysia, where a greedy relative called Small Auntie offers her a place to stay—but her hospitality isn’t free. With her father’s words “You must survive” echoing in her ears, Mai endures the hardships of the camp, which are tempered only by her dreams of being sponsored by her uncle for entry into America.
But when an accident forces Mai to leave the safety of Small Auntie’s family, she meets Kien, a half-American boy who might be the only person who can keep her alive until she’s sent to the United States.
Coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Out of the Dragon’s Mouth is a poignant look into life ripped apart by the ravages of war.
Hello excuse me friends, but have any of you read A Good Girls Guide to Murder? By Holly Jackson?
Ok well, I need recs for more books like it. It’s for a younger teen so probably nothing too horribly graphic. Murder mysteries, crime mysteries, who dunnit’s.
She used to love the A to Z Mystery books and has moved up, but I don’t know what to recommend for her.
Anyone have any suggestions? Middle grade to YA preferred.
I see lots of posts where people answer this question with recommendations for classic historical romance authors like Georgette Heyer or more modern bodice-rippers like Julia Quinn or Tessa Dare. But to me that’s never quite the appropriate answer. Sure, if what you want is romance with country dancing and breeches, that’s fine, but surely if you want to read more things similar to Jane Austen, the best way to do that is to delve into her lesser known contemporaries. People Austen admired and people who admired her. People writing on similar themes and using similar language.
So this is my list of 10 novels from the 18th and early 19th century that you might like to try if you’ve read Austen and want to branch out more. These are just personal recommendations and based off what I’ve read; I’m very happy to hear other suggestions!
Worth noting as well that all of these are available online or free for kindle download. :)
This makes me happy in ways I can’t completely describe.
There was a science fiction short story with that plot. Evil Aliens hit a spaceship full of humans with a paralysis ray before boarding. The ship’s cat 1.) wasn’t affected 2.) had been entered into the system as a crew member as a joke. So, being the ranking crew member, the cat was in charge. Ship’s computer displayed the enemy ships on the tactical command touch screen and the cat swatted at the glowy dots, targeting the ships and activating the defenses.
how can you say this and not tell us the name of the story of the author because I AM DESPERATE NOW…
Everything about this post is causing me to make the same face as that cat.
I HAVE A BOOK THAT STORY IS IN!!!!! The story itself is titled “Well Worth the Money” and written by Jody Lynn Nye. The book I have is titled “Cats in Space (and Other Places)” edited by Bill Fawcett and published in 1992 by Baen Publishing Enterprises, distributed by Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-72118-6. EVERY STORY IN THE BOOK IS GREAT, and I suggest if you can lay your hands on a copy you do so.
(Warning, the front cover says “In space, no one can hear you meow…” and the back cover says, “Space, the Feline Frontier.” Just in case you’re allergic to puns or something.)
This makes me happy in ways I can’t completely describe.
There was a science fiction short story with that plot. Evil Aliens hit a spaceship full of humans with a paralysis ray before boarding. The ship’s cat 1.) wasn’t affected 2.) had been entered into the system as a crew member as a joke. So, being the ranking crew member, the cat was in charge. Ship’s computer displayed the enemy ships on the tactical command touch screen and the cat swatted at the glowy dots, targeting the ships and activating the defenses.
how can you say this and not tell us the name of the story of the author because I AM DESPERATE NOW…
Everything about this post is causing me to make the same face as that cat.
I HAVE A BOOK THAT STORY IS IN!!!!! The story itself is titled “Well Worth the Money” and written by Jody Lynn Nye. The book I have is titled “Cats in Space (and Other Places)” edited by Bill Fawcett and published in 1992 by Baen Publishing Enterprises, distributed by Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-72118-6. EVERY STORY IN THE BOOK IS GREAT, and I suggest if you can lay your hands on a copy you do so.
(Warning, the front cover says “In space, no one can hear you meow…” and the back cover says, “Space, the Feline Frontier.” Just in case you’re allergic to puns or something.)
Ok, my writeblr buds, I’m gonna rec some books for anyone trying to figure out the whole wordy thing. These are on my shelf and I love them. Super useful, very well organised and legit my favourite physical resource for descriptive purposes. The examples I’m including are short versions because each one covers two pages, so you definitely get your money’s worth. I paid just under £50 for the entire set, which I bought individually by shopping around. There’s also a companion booklet that goes with the Emotion Thesaurus that I don’t have that includes more information the authors put together after publication. These books work in tandem with each other, so you can use the information from one in another. They also reference other pages in themselves to help you even more. I do recommend having the set, but it depends what kind of writer you are. If you’re weak in character creation then the positive and negative traits are for you. If getting emotions across is your sticking point then go for the emotion and emotional wound thesauruses. The two location helpers are great all round and really help spark ideas for when you know how a place looks but you can’t get the right words out to describe it. Anyway, to the examples! This is a long post, sorry in advance.
THE EMOTION THESAURUS Ever struggled for more than just another word for how someone feels? Yeah, we all been there. This book contains not just a list of emotions, but offers a definition, physical signs, internal sensations, mental responses, cues of acute or long term effects of that emotion, connections to other emotions resulting from the emotion you’re looking up, cues of suppressed emotion and a handy tip.
EX:GRATITUDE—Thankfulness, feeling grateful or appreciative. Physical signs. Eyes that are soft, filled with an inner glow. Clasping another’s forearm or hand. Tapping a loose fist against the heart.
Internal sensations. Tingling warmth in the limbs. A release of all bodily tension. A feeling of expansion in the chest.
Mental responses. Desiring to repay another’s kindness and support. Feeling overwhelmed in a good way. Wanting to drink in the moment, to remember this feeling forever.
Cues of acute or long termgratitude. Worship. Falling to one’s knees. Joyful tears.
May escalate to: SATISFACTION. PEACEFULNESS. HAPPINESS.
Cues of suppressed gratitude. Closing the eyes. Ducking one’s head to hide one’s expression. Avoiding eye contact.
THE EMOTIONAL WOUND THESAURUS Honestly, of the set this one is my favourite. It has a very comprehensive list of different types of trauma and it’s nicely set out into different categories with detailed information in each section.
EX:MISPLACED LOYALTY
Examples: Learning one was a pawn for others. Being used by a love interest. Being thrown under the bus by a family member.
Basic needs often compromised by this wound: Love and belonging. Esteem and recognition.
False beliefs that could be embraced. I can’t trust my own instincts. I’m so gullible; I believe anything anyone says. No one can be trusted.
The character may fear: Intimacy with others Sharing personal information. Being betrayed by a loved one. Possible responses and results. Negative self-talk Withdrawing from others Becoming disloyal
Personality traits that may form. Attributes: Analytical, appreciative, bold, cautious. Flaws: Apathetic, antisocial, callous, catty.
Triggers that might aggravate this wound: Suspecting that someone is being used by others. Not knowing if a friend can be trusted. Catching a friend in a lie.
Opportunities to face or overcome this wound: Finding one is guilty of betraying the trust of others. Being given a chance to join a group instead of living on the fringes of a community. Making oneself vulnerable again by offering support.
THE POSITIVE TRAIT THESAURUS. Now, I know for a fact there’s so many of us who struggle with character creation and how to develop our oc’s personality, so this is a godsend! It’s also handy if you’re already confident about who your characters are, but want to broaden their personality traits. I’d recommend using this one alongside the negative personality trait to build a balanced character.
EX:DISCIPLINED—Exhibiting willpower and self-control.
Categories:Achievement, identity. Similar attributes:Self-controlled. Possible causes:Being strongly dedicated to a goal of belief. Being raised in a devout household. Participating in competitive sports.
Associated behaviours: Adhering to long-term routines or patterns. Making sacrifices to achieve one’s goals. Having a strong moral barometer.
Associated thoughts: “I’d like to go out, but I need to get to bed early so I’m ready for tomorrow.”, “If I save up my tips for the next three months, I can take that trip to Mexico.”
Associated emotions: Confidence, desire, determination. (This is where the emotion thesaurus comes in handy)
Positive aspects: Disciplined characters are focused and determined with concrete goals. They’re strong planners, choosing the best and most direct course of action in order to achieve a desired result.
Negative Aspects: Disciplined characters are sometimes so focused on what they want that they marginalise friends and loved ones. Example from film: He may not be the smartest guy on the block, but Rocky Balboa has strength of will when it comes totraining. Traits in supporting characters that may cause conflict: Dependent, gentle, influential, innocent, manipulative.
Challenging scenarios for the disciplined character: Remaining disciplined during times of doubt and insecurity. Facing a temptation that is as tantalising as one’s original goal. Having an identity crisis that forces one to reevaluate the current path.
THE NEGATIVE TRAIT THESAURUS This goes great alongside the positive trait thesaurus if you struggle with creating characters. There’s every negative personality trait you can think of, with examples and how it affects the character. It’ll also link positive traits and emotions and possible wounds caused by negative personality traits, so these four books I’ve mentioned really work as a set and reference each other, which makes things a lot easier.
EX:MACHO—Aggressively pride in one’s manly qualities, including a belief in one’s right to dominate.
Similar flaws: Virile.
Possible causes:Being raised in a tradition people with traditional ideas. A fear of being perceived as feminine or unmanly. A history of being bullied.
Associated behaviours and attitudes: Obsessively working out. Aggression. Bullying others. Steroid use. Refusing to do “womens’ work”. Domestic abuse.
Associated thoughts: “As a matter of fact, I am god’s gift to women.”, “The house better be clean when I get home or Amy’s gonna be sorry.”
Positive aspects: Many macho characters see nothing wrong with acting the way they do. Somewhere, they’ve seen or heard this is the way real men behave and they’re trying to live up to this standard.
Negative aspects: Macho characters are offensive on a number of levels. Their proprietary attitudes towards women stem from the belief that women are frail beings who need someone to take care of them.
Example from film: Gaston from Beauty and the Beast.
Overcoming this trait as a major flaw: Machismo is simple masculinity taken too far, usually out of a need to prove something. This character will need to recalibrate his idea of manliness—possibly through a positive role model who refuses to accept their behaviour.
Traits in supporting characters that may cause conflict: Nagging, cocky, confrontational, controlling.
THE URBAN SETTING THESAURUS I know I’m not alone when I can’t think of how to word what a place looks like. This is here to save you! Lots of lovely descriptive sentences that invoke imagery you can build on for your setting. You get your five senses laid out, along with examples of the type of people found in the location and related settings to link the location with. There’s also some factual notes that will help you research your location further.
EX:SUBWAY TUNNEL
Sights: Bars of blue-tinged light spaced out along the track, darkness, concrete walls, graffiti, a narrow ledge along one or both walls, pipes running horizontally along the walls, motion sensors, track lines.
Sounds: The rattle and roar of a passing train, brakes screeching as a high-speed train hits a sharp corner, water dropping, the hum of live tracks, rats squeaking and scrabbling over concrete.
Tastes: Some settings have no specific tastes associated with them beyond what the character might bring into the scene.
Textures and sensations: Being buffeted by the wind from a passing train, cold concrete under one’s hand, rough concrete catching on clothing as one slides along the wall, grit and sand scraping one’s skin when a train goes by, debris crunching under one’s shoes.
People commonly found here: Homeless people, subway work crews.
Related settings that may tie in with this one: Sewers, Subway train (this is where it gives another page number in this book)
Setting notes and tips: While subways tunnels are off limits to the public, people can get into them if they’re determined enough.
Setting description example: Martin’s footsteps echoed in the damp air and a steady breeze blew through his work shirt, chilling his skin.
THE RURAL SETTING THESAURUS Last one, and it’s the opposite of the urban setting, so it covers all your naturey places, schools, home and anything found outside of a city.
EX:TREE HOUSE
Sights:A rope ladder or boards nailed to the tree trunk to form a ladder, a trapdoor, wooden planks, a cut outwindow, cloth nailed over the window to make curtains.
Sounds: The squeak of floorboards, the rope ladder scraping against the tree trunk, wind in the leaves, branches creaking and scraping against the roof.
Smells: Flowers, fresh-mown grass, new wooden planks, sawdust, rain, clean air, tree sap.
Textures and sensations: Rough wooden planks, nail heads sticking out of boards, cool air slipping through the gaps in the floorboards, the tree house swaying in the wind.
Possible sources of conflict: The tree house falling down due to poor workmanship. Being found by someone one is trying to avoid. Wasps building a nest inside the tree house. Bedbugs and mouldy furniture.
People commonly found here: Kids, neighbours, siblings.
Related settings that may tie in with this one: Backyard. (another page reference is given here)
Setting notes and tips: Tree houses are a kind of rite of passage among many youngsters. While the traditional tree house is constructed of rough materials, today’s hideout can also be bought prefabricated, complete with glass windows, decks, awnings, slides and many other features.
Setting description example: I looked up to what everyone was doing. Nora was polishing the rocks she’d collected at the creek and lining them up on the narrow shelf above the window.
You can purchase these books on Ebay—which is where I bought most of mine—but I recommend doing a search to get the best deal. Some do cost more than others. They’re all round about the same thickness, so the page count is even throughout, so don’t let that dictate book costs.
Haley loves gothic romance novels. Walking home from school, where her teacher has just told her she must review a different kind of book for once, she jumps into a river to save some dude. Then she wakes up in a manor straight from one of her favorite books – it’s complete with a foreboding housekeeper, a ghost no one else can see, and three brothers: Laurence (dark and brooding), Cuthbert (wanton, youngest), and Montague (cute, crabby, the guy who was in the river). Haley hasn’t gone back in time or anything – it’s way more complicated and has to do with different universes. (In fact there’s a pamphlet that explains it all.) In the end it all comes down to protecting our universe from an ultimate evil, which is pretty much an excuse for lots of lighthearted humor and a tiny bit of romance.
Forgiveness is such a trap and I honestly highly recommend not forgiving people who’ve done irreparable damage in your life. Despite what people say, you don’t need to forgive someone to have peace in your life.
I love this song
Forgiveness isn’t for the other person, it’s for you. Holding on to anger and resentment can fuck you up, both physically and psychologically.
So yes, you absolutely do need to forgive too have peace in your life, and science backs this up.
It actually doesn’t in fact a lot of therapists talk about forgiveness as a trap and you don’t need to forgive in order to let go of anger and resentment.
I encourage you to read Toxic Parents by Dr. Susan Forward but I’ll include some of what she says about the forgiveness trap here:
“One of the most dangerous things about forgiveness is that it undercuts your ability to let go of your pent-up emotions. How can you acknowledge your anger against a parent whom you’ve already forgiven? Responsibility can go only one of two places: outward, onto the people who have hurt you, or inward, into yourself. Someone’s got to be responsible. So you may forgive your parents but end up hating yourself all the more in exchange.
I also noticed that many clients rushed to forgiveness to avoid much of the painful work of therapy. They believed that by forgiving they could find a shortcut to feeling better. A handful of them ‘forgave,’ left therapy, and wound up sinking even deeper into depression or anxiety.
Several of these clients clung to their fantasies: ‘All I have to do is forgive and I will be healed, I will have wonderful mental health, everybody is going to love everybody, we’ll hug a lot, and we’ll finally be happy.’ Clients all too often discovered that the empty promise of forgiveness had merely set them up for bitter disappointment.”
Experienced witches, witches who have made the same mistakes, witches trying to maintain an honest and informative community - please tell me which are the main authors/publishers to avoid while reading up on witchcraft (any topic, we’re not specializing too much here) and which are your personal recommendations
Skyhunter: “The Karensa Federation has conquered a dozen countries, leaving Mara as one of the last free nations in the world. Refugees flee to its borders to escape a fate worse than death, transformation into mutant war beasts known as Ghosts, creatures the Federation then sends to attack Mara. The legendary Strikers, Mara’s elite fighting force, are trained to stop these monsters. But as the number of Ghosts grows and Karensa closes in, defeat seems inevitable. Still, one Striker refuses to give up hope. Robbed of her voice and home, Talin Kanami knows firsthand the brutality of the Federation. After another devastating battle, Mara seems ready to fall. But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front, Talin senses there’s more to him than meets the eye. Is he a spy from the Federation? Or could he be the weapon that will save them all?”
Gearbreakers: “War and oppression are everyday constants for the people of the Badlands, who live under the thumb of their cruel Godolia overlords. Their rule is aided by giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. Eris Shindanai is a Gearbreaker, a rebel who specializes in taking down Windups from the inside. When Eris finds herself in a Godolia prison she meets Sona Steelcrest, a cybernetically enhanced Windup pilot. Sona has a secret: She has intentionally infiltrated the Windup program to destroy Godolia from within. Facing a direct attack to end Godolia’s reign once and for all, Eris and Sona grow closer as comrades, friends, and perhaps something more.”
Blazewrath Games: “Lana Torres has always preferred dragons to people. In a few weeks, sixteen countries will compete in the Blazewrath World Cup, a tournament where dragons and their riders fight for glory in a dangerous relay. Lana longs to represent her native Puerto Rico in their first ever World Cup appearance, and when Puerto Rico’s Runner–the only player without a dragon steed–is kicked off the team, she’s given the chance. But when she discovers that a former Blazewrath superstar has teamed up with the Sire–a legendary dragon who’s cursed into human form–the safety of the Cup is jeopardized. The pair are burning down dragon sanctuaries around the world and refuse to stop unless the Cup gets cancelled. All Lana wanted was to represent her country. Now, to do that, she’ll have to navigate an international conspiracy that’s deadlier than her beloved sport.”
Crownchasers: “A deadly race across 1,001 planets will determine more than just the fate of the empire. Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy, even leaving behind the Kingship and her uncle, the emperor, for a life of exploring. But when her dying uncle announces a crownchase–a search for the royal seal hidden in the empire that will determine the next ruler–Alyssa is thrust into her greatest, most dangerous adventure yet.”
Skyward: “Spensa’s world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Pilots are the heroes of what’s left of the human race. She dreams of becoming a pilot, but her fate is intertwined with that of her father– a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team. When the Krell double their fleet, this may be Spensa’s chance to get into Flight School.”
Defy the Stars: “Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.”
Heartstopper: “Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn’t think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, they come to understand the surprising and delightful ways in which love works.”
Haikyu!!: “Ever since he saw the legendary player known as ‘the Little Giant’ compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else? After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, 'the King of the Court,’ Shoyo Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens when the guy he wants to defeat ends up being his teammate?!”
Check, Please!: “Y'all… I might not be ready for this. I may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It’s nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There’s checking. And then, there is Jack… You see the problem.”
