Recreation

Young Adults’ New Titles May 2011 (arrived in April)

Fiction

The wilful eye gathered by Isobelle Carmody and Nan McNab.
Six writers - Margo Lanagan, Rosie Borella, Isobelle Carmody, Richard Harland, Margaret Mahy and Martine Murray - have taken inspiration from stories that have shaped us all, like 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'The Snow Queen'. This collection carries universal themes of envy and jealousy, deception and abandonment, control and power, courage and sacrifice, violence and deception. Characters are enchanted, they transgress, they yearn, they hunger, they hate and sometimes, they kill. Some of the stories inhabit a traditional fairytale world, while others are set in the distant future. Some are set in the present and some in an alternative present. The stories offer no prescription for living or moral advice and none belong in a nursery. Open the covers and submit to their enchantment.
The gathering.
King of Ithaka Tracy Barrett.
When sixteen-year-old Telemachos and his two best friends, one a centaur, leave their life of privilege to undertake a quest to find Telemachos's father Odysseus, they learn much along the way about what it means to be a man and a king.
I am J Cris Beam.
J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.
You killed Wesley Payne Sean Beaudoin.
When hard-boiled, seventeen-year-old private investigator Dalton Rev transfers to Salt River High to solve the case of a dead student, he has his hands full trying to outwit the police, negotiate the school's social hierarchy, and get paid.
Draw the dark Ilsa J. Bick.
Seventeen-year-old Christian Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery involving German prisoners of war, a mysterious corpse, and Winter's last surviving Jew.
Chime Franny Billingsley.
Small persons with wings Ellen Booraem.
When Mellie Turpin's grandfather dies and leaves her family his run-down inn and bar, she learns that for generations her family members have been fairy guardians, and now that the fairies want an important ring returned, the Turpins become involved in a series of magical adventures as they try to locate the missing ring.
Rebel angels Libba Bray.
Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released.
The book of spells : a private prequel : a novel Kate Brian.
Explains the origins of the Billings girls and how they became witches, beginning with the arrival of sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Williams at the Billings School for Girls in September, 1915.
Starcrossed Elizabeth C. Bunce.
In a kingdom dominated by religious intolerance, sixteen-year-old Digger, a street thief, has always avoided attention, but when she learns that her friends are plotting against the throne she must decide whether to join them or turn them in.
Glamour Melody Carlson.
While filming Fashion Week in the Bahamas for their reality television show, sisters Paige and Erin Forrester both experience romance problems, while their friend Fran faces cancer and Mollie awaits her baby's arrival.
Nina, questor Ken Catran.
"The legendary Nina of the Dark has come into her power and won a mighty kingdom but her battle has just begun. The witchers, those dark lords of evil, still plague the land ... and seek Nina's death. Forsaking both daughter and kingdom, and armed only with her fabled sword Brightsong, Nina is flown across the mountains by Illyugi the dragon, at best an uncertain ally. She must quest the Broken Lands for the secrets of her destiny as Nina the Chosen. To discover what it is she has been chosen for. However, each step of the journey takes her further into the morass of confusion and uncertainty that plagues her world and her dreams. Ahead lies a bloody and treacherous path, filled with pain and horror."--Back cover. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.
The kissing game : stories of defiance and flash fictions Aidan Chambers.
Evercrossed : a kissed by an angel novel.
Leverage Joshua C. Cohen.
High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship with Danny.
Dash and Lily's book of dares Rachel Cohn, David Levithan.
Matched Ally Condie.
On her seventeenth birthday, Cassia meets her Match. Society dictates he is her perfect partner for life. Except he's not. In Cassia's society, Officials decide who people love. How many children they have. Where they work. When they die. But, as Cassia finds herself falling in love with another boy, she is determined to make some choices of her own. And that's when her whole world begins to unravel...
The miracle stealer Neil Connelly.
In small-town Pennsylvania, nineteen-year-old Andi Grant will do anything to protect her six-year-old brother Daniel from those who believe he has a God-given gift as a healer--including their own mother.
The 10 pm question Kate De Goldi.
Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons has a rather large, quirky family. Until now they've been the centre of his universe, but now Frankie's view of his world begins to change. There's a new arrival at school- a dredlocked girl called Sydney who becomes perplexingly fascinating to him. She even starts to draw him away from his best friend, Gigs.
Burn bright.
The body finder.
Livvie Owen lived here Sarah Dooley.
Fourteen-year-old Livvie Owen, who has autism, and her family have been forced to move frequently because of her outbursts, but when they face eviction again, Livvie is convinced she has a way to get back to a house where they were all happy, once.
The golden day.
The Byron journals.
Prom and prejudice Elizabeth Eulberg.
For Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.
Cloaked Alex Flinn.
Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.
If I stay Gayle Forman.
"Just listen," Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen."Stay," he says. Everybody has to make choices. Some might break you. For seventeen-year-old Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem tough, but they're all about a future full of music and love, a future that's brimming with hope. But life can change in an instant. A cold February morning ...a snowy road ...and suddenly all of Mia's choices are gone. Except one. As alone as she'll ever be, Mia must make the most difficult choice of all. Gripping, heartrending and ultimately life-affirming, If I Stay will make you appreciate all that you have, all that you've lost - and all that might be.
Where she went Gayle Forman.
If you had a second chance at first love ...would you take it? It's been three years since Adam's love saved Mia after the accident that annihilated life as she knew it ...and three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever. Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Julliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future and each other. Told from Adam's point of view in the spare, powerful prose that defined If I Stay, "Where She Went" explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.
The dead I know.
The dark.
Eona.
Something like hope Shawn Goodman.
Shavonne, a fierce, desperate seventeen year-old in juvenile lockup, wants to turn her life around before her eighteenth birthday, but corrupt guards, out-of-control girls, and shadows from her past make her task seem impossible.
Paradise red K.M. Grant.
In the waning days of winter in 1244, with much of Occitan destroyed by the northern crusaders, Raimon, separated from the now-married Yolanda, tries to find a way to recover the Blue Flame from the the hands of the evil White Wolf, leader of a band of Cathars seeking refuge at the mountain fortress of Montsegur.
Afterlife.
Resurrection Mandy Hager.
Maryam arrives back at Onewere and tries to loosen the Apostles' religious stranglehold, but finds herself captured once again - prey to the Apostles' deadly game. The ruling elite manipulate her return by setting in motion a highly orchestrated ritual before a hysterical and brain-washed crowd. Somehow Maryam must get the islanders to listen to her plea that they start thinking for themselves. Suggested level: secondary.
Pyre of queens David Hair.
Mandore, India, 769 AD: An evil sorcerer king has devised a deadly secret ritual: he and his seven queens will burn on his funeral pyre and he will rise again with the powers of the demon king, Ravana. But things go wrong when one queen, the beautiful, spirited Darya, escapes with the help of the court poet. Jodhphur, India, 2010: At the site of ancient Mandore, four teenagers meet and realise that the deathless king and his ghostly brides are hunting them down. As vicious forces from the past come alive, they need to unlock truths that have been hidden for centuries and fight an ancient battle . . . one more time.
Liberator.
Dial L for loser : a Clique novel.
P.S. I loathe you : a clique novel.
Demonglass : a Hex Hall novel Rachel Hawkins.
After learning that she is capable of dangerous magic, Sophie Mercer goes to England with her father, friend Jenna, and Cal hoping to have her powers removed, but soon she learns that she is being hunted by the Eye--and haunted by Elodie.
Would you rather?
Fearscape Simon Holt.
Pursued by the Vours, supernatural creatures who feast on fear and attack on the eve of the winter solstice, Reggie tries to hold onto her humanity as she finds herself gradually morphing into a Vour.
The hunt of the unicorn C.C. Humphreys.
Despite strange dreams and her ailing father's firm belief in the family lore of a long-ago ancestor's connection to the mythical unicorn, fifteen-year-old New Yorker Elayne remains skeptical until, during a school visit to the unicorn tapestries in the Cloisters, she finds herself entering a tumulteous world where she must fulfill the legacy of her ancestors by taming the unicorn and bringing a tyrant to justice.
The DUFF : designated ugly fat friend : a novel Kody Keplinger.
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, and to her surprise, the two of them find they have a lot in common and are able to help each other find more productive ways to deal with their difficulties.
Grounded Kate Klise.
After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn's life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town's new crematorium.
Rotters Daniel Kraus.
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he's never known, and who's the town pariah.
The worst thing she ever did.
Whirlwind Robert Liparulo.
To save the world from destruction, rescue their kidnapped mother, and battle the evil Taksidian, the King siblings try to control the mysterious portals in their house that send them to different time periods.
Triple ripple Brigid Lowry.
The Writer begins with a sparkly good idea for a fabulous fairytale. A girl called Glory is sent to work in the Royal Palace, where the queen is planning a grand ball and a bad-tempered princess is sorting through jewels and tiaras. And, unknown to Glory, the threads of her destiny are coming together. Nova is reading the fairytale. Fairytales are not usually her thing, but right now she's feeling a bit messy and lost. Her best friend has gone away and bitchy Dylan is hassling her. Still, Nova is curious to find out why Glory's mother is scrabbling under the bed for an old magic book. Can the Writer make everything turn out happily ever after? Will the princess find true love? Will Glory escape a secret curse? And can Nova smooth out the lumps and bumps in her life?
Angry young man Chris Lynch.
Eighteen-year-old Robert tries to help his half-brother Xan, a seventeen-year-old misfit, to make better choices as he becomes increasingly attracted to a variety of protesters, anarchists, and the like.
Prisoners in the palace : how Victoria became queen with the help of her maid, a reporter, and a scoundrel : a novel of intrigue and romance Michaela MacColl.
Recently orphaned and destitute, seventeen-year-old Liza Hastings earns a position as a lady's maid to sixteen-year-old Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace in 1836, the year before Victoria becomes Queen of England.
Boys that bite.
Diary of a crush. French kiss.
The demon collector Jon Mayhew.
Cryer's Cross Lisa McMann.
Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two teenagers go missing within months of each other, with no explanation.
Breaking dawn Stephenie Meyer.
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life- first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever?
Eclipse Stephenie Meyer.
Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her relationship with Edward, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.
New moon Stephenie Meyer.
When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.
Twilight Stephenie Meyer.
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
Wish Joseph Monninger.
While trying to help her eleven-year-old brother who suffers from cystic fibrosis get his greatest wish, fifteen-year-old Bee discovers that she has some special wishes of her own.
Kick Walter Dean Myers and Ross Workman.
Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
Angel : a Maximum Ride thriller James Patterson.
Is this the end of Max and Fang, and the beginning of Max and Dylan? Only Angel knows. Maximum Ride and her friends have always had each other's backs because they can't trust anyone else. No. Matter. What. But now the flock is up against a threat unlike any they've ever faced and, just when they need each other the most, Fang is gone. He's creating his own gang that will replace everyone - including Max. Max is heartbroken over losing Fang, her soulmate, her best friend. The one she thought would always be there for her. Could it be that she really is destined to be with Dylan? He's proven that he'll do anything for her, and she can't deny that there's an intensity about him that draws her in. As the flock race to Paris to stop a terrifying cult intent on exterminating the human race, she has no choice but to trust him.
Anna and the French kiss Stephanie Perkins.
When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.
The things a brother knows Dana Reinhardt.
Although they have never gotten along well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a walking trip from Boston to Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning why Boaz is completely withdrawn.
When the cat's away Jackie Rutherford.
Story about three siblings aged 17, 15 and 14 whose parents go to Europe for a month, supposedly leaving them in the care of their aunt with the neighbour as back-up. However, their parents best laid plans go awry and the kids discover a freedom they've never had before. Things get out of hand and they end up hosting a teenage party with disastrous results. The three siblings then have to work together to sort everything out before their parents return. Suggested level: secondary.
The dark and hollow places Carrie Ryan.
Alone and listening to the moaning of the Dark City dying around her, Annah wants to find her way back home, to her sister and family and their village in the Forest of Hands and Teeth.
Grace Elizabeth Scott.
Sixteen-year-old Grace travels on a decrepit train toward a border that may not exist, recalling events that brought her to choose life over being a suicide bomber, and dreaming of freedom from the extremist religion-based government of Keran Berj.
Rockoholic.
Outside in.
Kindred Tammar Stein.
Spiritual warfare breaks out when the Archangel Raphael and the Devil deliver assignments to eighteen-year-old fraternal twins Miriam and Moses.
The latte rebellion Sarah Jamila Stevenson.
Lazlo Strangoloy's tooth and claw : ghost writing from the underground /c[text by Lazlo Strangolov ; illustrated by Quinton Winter].
Dust blood.
The Cassini code : a Galahad book.
Dress rehearsal.
Where the truth lies Jessica Warman.
Emily, whose father is headmaster of a Connecticut boarding school, suffers from nightmares, and when she meets and falls in love with the handsome Del Sugar, pieces of her traumatic past start falling into place.
Boy trouble Sarah Webb.
A thirteen-year-old Irish girl who helps her seventeen-year-old aunt write an advice column for lovelorn girls faces her own dilemma when she alienates her friends after falling for a cute but aloof boy in her art class.
A pocketful of eyes.
The space between trees Katie Williams.
When the body of a classmate is discovered in the woods, sixteen-year-old Evie's lies wind up involving her with the girl's best friend, trying to track down the killer.
The Freak Observer Blythe Woolston.
Suffering from a crippling case of post-traumatic stress disorder, sixteen-year-old Loa Lindgren tries to use her problem solving skills, sharpened in physics and computer programming, to cure herself.

Non-Fiction

Batman chronicles. Volume ten writers, Joseph Greene ... [et al] ; artists, Jack Burnley ... [et al].
A collection of Batman stories from the Golden Age of comics, featuring classic appearances of Two-Face, The Joker, The Crime Surgeon, The Cavalier, and more.
The world's steepest street Tessa Duder and James Norcliffe.
Collection of poetry and short stories written by teenagers conveying the attitudes of young New Zealanders. Suggested level: senior secondary.
Tegami bachi, letter bee. Vol. 1, Letter and letter bee story and art by Hiroyuki Asada ; [English adaptation, Rich Amtower ; translation, JN Productions].
Tegami Bachi, letter bee. Volume 4, A letter full of lies story and art by Hiroyuki Asada ; [English adaptation, Rich Amtower ; translation, JN Productions].
"Lag, now a Letter Bee rookie, meets Dr. Thunderland, Jr., a peculiar man who collects and catalogs the various Amberground species. When the doctor takes a particular interest in Steak, Lag and Niche have to hustle to keep him off the doctor's dissection table! The ensuing chaos pays off for Lag when the doctor reveals that Gauche--Lag's missing hero--paid the doctor a visit before he disappeared."--Cover.
Gossip girl. 2, For your eyes only art and adaption, HyeKyung Baek ; based on the Gossip girl novels written by Cecily von Ziegesar.
Superman/Batman. Torment Alan Burnett, writer ; Dustin Nguyen, pencils ; Derek Fridolfs, inks ; Rob Leigh, letters ; Randy Mayor, colors ; Dustin Nguyen & Derek Fridolfs.
Comics most iconic characters come together in this hardcover collection written by Alan Burnett, producer of acclaimed animated series including BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, THE BATMAN and more. This volume presents an epic tale that takes the Dark Knight and Superman from the streets of Gotham to the outer reaches of Apokolips in a quest that pits them against the terrifying galactic villain Darkseid, Scarecrow, Killer Croc, and more!
Superman/Batman. Big noise writers, Joe Casey, Joshua Williamson ; pencillers, Scott Kolins, Ardian Syaf, Jay Fabok ; inkers, Scott Kolins ... [et al.].
"A hidden threat from the stars...only the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight detective can stop it! A time-lost Kryptonian ship, its crew murdered. A missing escape pod. A mysterious attack by a powerful assassin on an insignificant reporter named Clark Kent. These are the clues in a mystery that will take all of Batman's detective skills and Superman's incredible strength..."--P. [4] of cover.
Astonishing X-Men. Exogenetic Warren Ellis, writer, Phil Jimenez, pencils/breakdowns ; Andy Lanning, inks/finishes ; Frank D'Armata, colors ; Virtual Calligraphy's Joe Caramagna, letterer.
Abigail Brand, director of S.W.O.R.D., isn't the type who asks for help, but when she finds herself careening toward Earth in the cockpit of a damaged spaceship after being attacked on an exploding asteroid, it's time to call the X-Men.
Astonishing X-Men. Ghost box writer, Warren Ellis ; pencils, Simone Bianchi ; ink washes, Simone Bianchi & Andrea Silvestri ; colors, Simone Peruzzi with Christina Strain ... [et al].
"The X-Men are called to the scene of a murder that appears to have involved heretofore unknown mutants. The team's resident scientist, Beast, discovers that though the victim was indeed a mutant, his mutation appears to be artificially produced. The team races to a spaceship graveyard in Indonesia in their search for the murderer, who they find huddled over the mysterious Ghost Box, preparing to activate it. The murderer reveals himself to also be a mutant, but commits suicide rather than give the X-Men any information as to his, or the Ghost Box's, origins. With mysterious, artificially created mutants popping up out of nowhere, the X-Men must struggle to unlock the mysteries of the Ghost Box: What is the device's purpose, and why was it sent to Earth?" -- from publisher's web site.
Family guy : a big book o' crap! [Matt Fleckenstein, writer ; Jason Axtell ... [et al.], linework ; Josh Blaylock ... [et al.], colors ; Brian J. Crowley, letters].
Focuses on one of the star characters, and their views on life, however skewed they may be! This work features stories rivaled only by the TV show itself.
Sex for guys Manne Forssberg ; translated by Maria Lundin.
Provides a no-holds-barred guide to love, desire, feelings, and sex for young men that covers a vast array of important issues such as orgasms, masturbation, homosexuality, pornography, and STDs.
Hayate the Combat Butler. 17 [story and art by] Kenjiro Hata ; [English adaptation, Mark Giambruno ; translation, Yuki Yoshioka and Cindy H. Yamauchi].
Rosario + Vampire. 1, Vampires story & art by Akihisa Ikeda ; [translation, Kaori Inoue ; English adaptation, Gerard Jones].
All-around average student Tsukune transfers to Monster High, where he discovers the turf war isn't between the jocks and the nerds but the vampires and the werewolves.
Rosario + Vampire. Season II. 2 Akihisa Ikeda ; [translation, Kaori Inoue ; English adaption, Gerard Jones.
Saturn Apartments. 1 Hisae Iwaoka ; [translation, Matt Thorn].
"Far in the future, humankind has evacuated the earth in order to preserve it. Humans now reside in a gigantic structure that forms a ring around the earth, 35 kilometers up in the sky. The society of the ring is highly stratified: the higher the floor, the greater the status. Mitsu, the lowly son of a window washer, has just graduated junior high. When his father disappears and is assumed dead, Mitsu must take on his father's occupation. As he struggles with the transition to working life, Mitsu's job treats him to an outsider's view into the living-room dioramas of the Saturn Apartments"--Cover, P. [4].
Saturn Apartments. 2 Hisae Iwaoka ; [translation, Matt Thorn, Tomo Kimura].
Treasure yourself : power thoughts for my generation Miranda Kerr.
Brain camp written by Susan Kim & Laurence Klavan ; artwork by Faith Erin Hicks ; color by Hilary Sycamore.
Lucas and Jenna are chosen to attend a camp that promises to turn delinquents into high achieving students, but when they arrive, they realize that the camp is not what it seems.
Your skirt's too short : sex, power, choice Emily Maguire.
The Twilight saga : the official illustrated guide [Stephenie Meyer] ; illustrations by Rebecca Bradley ... [et al.].
Presents a reference guide to the characters, plot, and major themes of the author's four novels.
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind. 5 story and art by Hayao Miyazaki ; [translation, Matt Thorn].
Batman & Robin. Batman vs. Robin written by Grant Morrison ; art by Cameron Stewart ... [et al.] ; colored by alex Sinclair, Tony Avina ; lettered by Patrick Brosseau, Jared K. Fletcher.
The new Batman and Robin uncover clues involving the mysterious death of Bruce Wayne before facing off against each other in a heated battle instigated by Talia al Ghul, Robin's mother.
One piece. Vol. 56, Thank you story and art by Eiichiro Oda ; [English adaptation, Lance Caselman ; translation, Laabaman, HC Language Solutions, Inc.]
"With Ivankov's help, Luffy now struggles to make his way back out of Impel Down in order to prevent the execution of his brother Ace. All the prisoners will have to work together if they ever hope to get past the dangerous Warden Magellan. But will an earth-shattering proclamation by the World Government turn everything upside down?" -- p. [4] of cover.
Archie marries Michael Uslan ; illustrated by Stan Goldberg & Bob Smith ; lettering by Jack Morelli ; coloring by Glenn Whitmore ; introduction by Danica McKellar.
Paradise kiss. Volume 4 Ai Yazawa ; [translator, Shirley Kubo ; English adaption, Kristen Bailey Murphy].