Cory McCarthy
1) Man o' war
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
On a field trip to SeaPlanet, seventeen-year-old Arab American high school swimmer River McIntyre has a chance encounter with Indy, a happy, healthy queer person, which sets off a wrenching journey of self-discovery, from internalized homophobia and gender dysphoria, through layers of coming out, affirmation surgery, and true love.
Author
Series
B.E.S.T. world volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new cadet in the Biological Enhancement Systems Technology (B.E.S.T.) program who is determined to make his mark on the world, 11-year-old Ace Wells discovers that he is not ready when nothing goes as planned.
Author
Series
B.E.S.T. world volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told through the alternating perspectives of Leo (they/them) and Jayla (she/her), the boxmates from the B.E.S.T. Academy are lost at sea and their best friend, Grayson Bix, is missing. From the depths of the Pacific Ocean to the heights of the stratosphere, hijinks, adventure, and emotional challenges ensue as the gritty kids meet a whole new cast of characters, weigh out the costs of life-changing bionic enhancements, and blow the top off of an earth-shattering...
Author
Series
B.E.S.T. world volume 3
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Join the boxmates of Liliput in this thrilling conclusion to Cory McCarthy's inclusive B.E.S.T World trilogy as the friends make startling discoveries both about themselves and the near-future world they live in. When the boxmates' final adventure takes them from the iconic Tower of Power campus and deepscraper Resistance base to the larger-than-life Bixonic's Co. international space station, their augs are put to the test against a global corporate...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Before Kahlil Gibran became the world's third-best-selling poet of all time, he was Gibran Khalil Gibran, an immigrant child from Lebanon with a secret hope to bring people together despite their many differences. Kahlil's life highlights the turn of the twentieth century, from the religious conflicts that tore apart his homeland and sent a hundred thousand Arab people to America, to settling in Boston, where the wealthy clashed headlong with the...