Dashka Slater

"One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued...

Bored with eating salad, our French snail hero peruses the library stacks, looking for a cookbook.

"Baby's new shoes are high-jumping, fast-running, fine-looking shoes! But when Mama and Baby take a walk, and Baby brings some colored chalk... those white shoes don't look new for long!"--p. [4] of cover.

"A young adult nonfiction book on how Albany High School handles a racist social media incident that incurs lasting and devastating consequences"--

Twelve-year-old Rufus Takada Collins discovers feylings on his grandfather's farm and it is up to him and his cousin Abigail to find the magical train cars that will carry them safely home.

The French snail Escargot attends a party, hoping to find his snailentine, but he instead finds a surprising new friend.

Kayla loves riding her pink pony, a three-wheeled bike, up and down the street, day after day. But then Daddy announces that it's time for a big-kid bike, one with just two wheels. At the store, Kayla selects her mount, but when she tries to ride it, she is thrown--again and again. Can she tame this intimidating set of wheels? Or is the new blue bike just too wild?

A gender-nonconforming teenager was attacked by another teenager on a public bus.