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Everything has been so confusing since the night Paulie's dad died.  Paulie is hurt, angry, worried and it gets worse when he finds out his dad died because of a black man.  Paulie's mom has trouble dealing with everything and soon Paulie and his sister end up living with their Aunt Bee.  But the anger and confusion threaten to overtake him unless he can learn to deal with it.  Can Paulie find the answers he This was a pretty powerful poetic narrative filled with emotion and healing.  Glad I picked it up. Taylor's dad is a special something in Vietnam.  He and his mom never really see him and even when they do he's distracted by war work.  So they decide to travel to Vietnam for his 50th birthday.  But Taylor is restless and looking for action and decides to run off and go to a party.  Then things go horribly wrong.  Saigon is attacked and Taylor is captured.  Soon he is on the move along the Blood Road with his captors for who knows what.  Taylor suffers through interrogations, bombing, death all around, hunger and thirst but most of all uncertainty.  Who is right?  Who is wrong?  Along the way he actually becomes friends with one of his captors Phuong.  Will Taylor This was pretty intense but I can see an audience for this type of historical fiction. This is another Rick Riordan imprint.  This book takes place in the Thousand Worlds - outerspace worlds with terraforming, star gates, and space cadets.  Min is shocked when officials come looking for information about her brother. They say he has deserted and that it has something to do with the missing Dragon Pearl - a powerful ord that helps to terraform planets.  Min decides to go searching for her brother using her fox ability to shapeshift and charm. But can she find her brother to clear his name and find the Pearl before it gets into the wrong hands? This was a clever sci fi adventure.  I thought it lagged a bit in the middle but good overall. Who knew a story about a coyote pup named Trouble, an opossum, a crow, an owl, a poodle, and a fox could be so heartwarming?  A story of