Will her upbringing force her to make the difficult choice between true love and family honor? Can she embrace her new experiences without breaking her promise not to shame her missionary father? When Lily finds herself falling for Gabe, her heart is torn. But she walks a fine line between two worlds. Left in the care of Jeff's best friend, Gabe Kapaia, and his family, Lily discovers the paradise of Oahu's north side at the Kapaia Resort. Raised in a remote Asian village by her disciplinarian father, 24-year-old Lily is thrilled to visit her brother Jeff in Hawaii-until Jeff is called away on urgent business. From supermarkets and swimsuits to the way women look men directly in the eye, she's baffled by this strange new land. The recipient of five starred reviews, Publishers Weekly called Far Far Away "inventive and deeply poignant."Ĭan their love survive two very different cultures? Lily Walsh has never imagined anything like America.
Veteran writer Tom McNeal has crafted a young adult novel at once grim(m) and hopeful, full of twists, and perfect for fans of contemporary fairy tales like Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book and Holly Black's Doll Bones. And as anyone familiar with the Brothers Grimm know, not all fairy tales have happy endings.
In any other place, this would be a turn for the better for Jeremy, but not in Never Better, where the Finder of Occasions-whose identity and evil intentions nobody knows-is watching and waiting, waiting and watching. When coltish, copper-haired Ginger Boultinghouse takes a bite of a cake so delicious it’s rumored to be bewitched, she falls in love with the first person she sees: Jeremy. But Jacob can't protect Jeremy from everything.
Jacob watches over Jeremy, protecting him from an unknown dark evil whispered about in the space between this world and the next. Or, specifically, one voice: the ghost of Jacob Grimm, one half of The Brothers Grimm. Publisher : Knopf Books for Young ReadersĪ National Book Award Finalist An Edgar Award Finalist A California Book Award Gold Medal Winner A dark, contemporary fairy tale in the tradition of Neil Gaiman.