Plunked

Landing a starting position on the Little League team and looking forward to an exciting season, sixth-grade slugger Jack Mogens is injured by a powerful stray pitch during his first game and confront

When a young slugger gets hit by a pitch, he needs more than practice to get back his game.Sixth grader Jack Mogens has it all figured out: He's got his batting routine down, and his outfielding earns

I plunked away on my great-grandmother’s upright repeatedly, too slowly, painfully until I got it right. I was 38-years-old then and facing the inevitability of becoming a widow. ‘He gives and takes

William C. Morris YA Debut Award Winner!Now in paperback with a fresh new look, a hilarious YA contemporary realistic novel about a witty Black French Canadian teen who moves to Austin, Texas, and experiences the joys, clichés, and awkward humiliations of the American high school experience―including falling in love. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon, When Dimple Met Rishi, and John Green.Setting: Austin, Texas.Identifying characteristics: Abundance of food trucks and concert T-shirts worn by adults.Habitat: 104 degrees. Basically, inhospitable to human life.Meet Norris Kaplan. As a Black French Canadian (and avid ice hockey fan) who has been recently plunked into Austin, Texas, he is not happy. Norris’s superpower has always been the ability to wield a sharp comeback and keep people at a safe distance. He’ll just do his time there until he can finally go back home.Having grown up on a steady diet of American TV, Norris knows just what to expect when he starts at a prototypical American

In this coming-of-age story, Benjie Gabai is convinced he's been the victim of a terrible cosmic hoax. Instead of being born in the 18th century as a French-Canadian voyageur, God has plunked him down