Jake Maia Arlow

In this unabashedly queer middle grade debut, a week-long amusement park road trip becomes a true roller coaster of emotion when Dalia realizes she has more-than-friend feelings for her new bestie. Would-be amusement park aficionado Dalia only has two items on her summer bucket list: (1) finally ride a roller coaster and (2) figure out how to make a new best friend. But when her dad suddenly announces that he's engaged, Dalia's schemes come to a screeching halt. With Dalia's future stepsister Alexa heading back to college soon, the grown-ups want the girls to spend the last weeks of summer bonding--meaning Alexa has to cancel the amusement park road trip she's been planning for months. Luckily Dalia comes up with a new plan: If she joins Alexa on her trip and brings Rani, the new girl from her swim team, along maybe she can have the perfect summer after all. But what starts out as a week of funnel cakes and Lazy River rides goes off the rails when Dalia discovers that Alexa's girlfriend is joining the trip. And keeping Alexa's secret makes Dalia realize one of her own: She might have more-than-friend feelings for Rani.

It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom’s Subaru. Attempted vehicular manslaughter was not part of Shani’s plan. She was supposed to be focusing on her month-long paleoichthyology internship. She was going to spend all her time thinking about dead fish and not at all about how she was unceremoniously dumped days before winter break. It could be going better. But when a dog-walking gig puts her back in May’s path, the fossils she’s meant to be diligently studying are pushed to the side—along with the breakup. Then they’re snowed in together on Christmas Eve. As things start to feel more serious, though, Shani’s hurt over her ex-girlfriend’s rejection comes rushing back. Is she ready to try a committed relationship again, or is she okay with this just being a passing winter fling?

Dwie dziewczyny, zamieć śnieżna i gorąca czekolada... Poznajcie przepis na zimowy romans – idealny dla kochających „She Drives Me Crazy” i „Ofelia mimo wszystko”! Martwe ryby nie złamią ci serca. Zwłaszcza te, które nie żyją od milionów lat. Dlatego Shani zamierza myśleć wyłącznie o martwych rybach. A konkretnie o skamielinach, które będzie badać w Waszyngtonie w ramach stypendium. Jednak jej myśli zaprząta „przeurocze” pierwsze spotkanie z May, na którą wpadła przypadkiem... samochodem mamy. Shani może dopisać to do listy swoich wątpliwych sukcesów: związek z – jak jej się wydawało – wymarzoną dziewczyną skończył się trudnym zerwaniem, a wyjazd na stypendium oznacza dla jej mamy samotne święta. Jedno jest pewne: przerwa zimowa nie stanowi dla niej przerwy od problemów. Pomimo niefortunnego początku Shani i May zbliżają się do siebie, a szalejąca śnieżyca, która odcina je od świata, zmusza Shani do zmierzenia się ze swoimi uczuciami. Czy śnieg, zimowe dekoracje, kubki z gorącą kawą, życzenia i magia świąt sprawią, że jej serce znów otworzy się na miłość? "Zabawna, szczera i prawdziwa... Jake Maia Arlow to jeden z najważniejszych nowych głosów w literaturze młodzieżowej” – Kelly Quindlen, autorka powieści „She Drives Me Crazy” "Burzliwa podróż od złamanego serca, po wspomnienie pierwszej miłości, aż do wejścia w dorosłość. Shani sprawi, że będziesz się śmiać, płakać i kibicować jej aż do ostatniej strony." – Racquel Marie, autorka powieści „Ofelia mimo wszystko” "Dowcipna, pełna rozbrajającej chemii pomiędzy bohaterami, przepełniona słodyczą wyśmienitej gorącej czekolady i przyprószona delikatnym śniegiem  „Kamień z serca” to powieść idealna na zimowy wieczór! W trakcie czytania będziecie chcieli delektować się każdym jej słowem, a po przeczytaniu polecicie ją każdemu, kogo tylko znacie." – Dahlia Adler, autorka powieści „Cool for the Summer” Jake Maia Arlow to osoba autorska i podcasterska, która zadebiutowała w czerwcu 2021 roku queerową powieścią dla młodzieży „Almost Flying". Studiowała w Barnard College biologię „ewolucyjną i creative writing (twierdzi, że to wcale nie są bardzo odległe dziedziny). Współtworzy kilka podcastów: „Not Past It”, „Invisibilia”, „FiveThirtyEight's”. Lubi podróżować i uważa, że w każdym miejscu można znaleźć coś godnego uwagi.

Nina LaCour meets Alyson Derrick in this cross-country journey of identity, love, and friendships as Zoe tries to figure out her life, one train stop at a time. “Sometimes, looking at him was like looking in a funhouse mirror.” Zoe’s life has gone off the rails. When she left Seattle to go to college in New York, she was determined to start fresh, to figure out what being a lesbian meant to her, to experiment with clothes and presentation away from home for the first time. Instead, she lost touch with her freshman orientation friend group, skipped classes, and failed completely at being the studious premed student her parents wanted her to be. But the biggest derailment of all? Her newly minted ex-boyfriend—and the fact that she had a boyfriend to begin with. When she met Alden, he made her feel wanted, he made her feel free. He made her feel . . . like she could be like him, which was exciting and confusing all at once. So, Zoe decides a second fresh start is in order: she’s going to take a cross-country train from New York to Seattle for fall break. There, no one will know who she is, and she can outrun her mistakes. Or so she thinks until she meets Oakley, who’s the opposite of Zoe in so many ways: effortlessly cool and hot, smart, self-assured. But as Zoe and Oakley make their way across the country, Zoe realizes that Oakley’s life has also gone off the rails—and that they might just be able to help each other along before that train finally leaves the station.

A hilariously honest book about surviving middle school while navigating a chronic illness from the Stonewall Honor-winning author of Almost Flying.Twelve-year-old Al Schneider is too scared to talk about the two biggest things in her 1. Her stomach hurts all the time and she has no idea why.2. She’s almost definitely 100% sure she likes girls.So she holds it in…until she can’t. After nearly having an accident of the lavatorial variety in gym class, Al finds herself getting a colonoscopy and an answer—she has Crohn’s disease.But rather than solving all her problems, Al's diagnosis just makes everything worse. It’s scary and embarrassing. And worst of all, everyone wants her to talk about it—her overprotective mom, her best friend, and most annoyingly her gastroenterologist, who keeps trying to get her to go to a support group for kids with similar chronic illnesses. But, who wants to talk about what you do in the bathroom?The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet is a wildly funny and honest story about finding community, telling the truth even when it’s hard, and the many indignities of middle school life.