



Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. Why you should consider reading this book: If you love Jane Austen as much as I do, especially Pride and Prejudice, you’ll have fun just making connections to the original text.A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding.īut with four wild sisters pulling her in different directions, cute boy Warren vying for her attention, and college applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick’s changing landscape, or lose it all. She especially can’t stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. This one will whisk you away across the universe! Why you should consider reading this book: Epic is the right word for this. This beautifully illustrated graphic novel is an epic science fiction romance between two non-binary characters as they find one another through time, distance, and war. They finally are able to be together…but at what cost? They stay in contact in secret as their communities are increasingly threatened by the omnipresent, ever-expanding empire.Īs the empire begins a new attack against Fassen’s people–and discovers Lu’s in the process–the two of them have the chance to reunite at last. Lu and Fassen are from different worlds and separate solar systems. But their friendship keeps them in each other’s orbit as they grow up.

It was a forbidden meeting between a kid from a war-focused resistance movement and a kid whose community and planet are dedicated to peace and secrecy. Summary: When they were kids, Fassen’s fighter spaceship crash-landed on a planet that Lu’s survey force was exploring. Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti
