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‘When I was thirteen I was sent away... Maybe dragged away is a better way to put it.’A powerful and unflinching graphic memoir about what really happens inside America’s secretive ‘troubled teen’ correctional facilities – told from the inside with raw honesty and dark humour.Bad Kid tells the story of Sofia’s turbulent teenhood, including her experience of being taken away (‘kidnapped’) to a residential treatment centre aimed at ‘troubled...

Even the most basic chores can be fun when Sofia is involved! From washing a car to cooking with grandma, this smart and funny 7-year-old knows how to make every moment count. Follow Sofia through three every day adventures in this early chapter book and find out why Sofia has such a crazy life!

“Given everything our world faces today, having faith in love is no small thing.” —Rev. Dr. Sofía BetancourtUnitarian Universalists as a progressive religious community hold a humbling expectation to periodically re-evaluate the freely chosen covenant that holds us together. While this work impacts the bylaws that define our governance structures, it also gives life to the values we express in common cause. We do this work to live into the Unitarian Universalism of...

How does one rise above the trauma of child sexual abuse?Sofia Abdullah is now an international women’s and children’s rights champion, fighting for equality and fair treatment for disempowered groups all over the world. But she comes from a painful past—one in which she was sexually abused as a child by a family member. Taking many years to heal from the trauma, these are pages from her notes documenting her journey of coming to terms with what had happened. This is her journey of...

Betas are made for business, not pleasure.We're intelligent, hard-working, and unlike alphas and omegas, we're not ruled by our hormones. That's how I've earned the title of Alpha Wrangler. No matter how much testosterone floods a boardroom, I can always rise above it and get the job done.Which wins me the plum job of negotiating one of the biggest mergers in the country. All I need are a couple of signatures, and then I can use my bonus to buy an apartment...

#1 New York Times bestselling team Andrea Beaty and David Roberts present a Questioneers chapter-book adventure in Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote.Watch the Questioneers in the Netflix television series Ada Twist, Scientist!Miss Lila Greer announces it's time for Grade Two to get a class pet, and she wants the kids to participate in choosing which one. After all, they will all have to share the responsibility ...

Reese...I made a mistake that might have ruined someone's life. I've moved to Sydney to avoid the glares and the questions from the people back home, but there's one thing I can't run from--the guilt and pain that follows me relentlessly. All I can do is dull it with alcohol and casual sex.But then my new boss, Mr Dark and Delicious, deserted me, mid kiss, with my skirt hiked up and my shirt discarded on the alley floor. I should hate him―him and the secret...

Alphas don't have heats—except when I "switch" to omega at an all-male alpha academy.Alphas are taught to take what they want. Or at least that's the motto of the elite alpha academy where I work. My probation is around the corner, and the headmaster has already warned me I don't fit in. But I need this job to prove to my family and my ex that I'm more than just my past mistakes.Falling for my student is a dangerous complication. But Mattie is a burst of su...

There’s a reason crows circle overhead nightly. It’s to remind themselves of where they’ve been, where they’re going, and, most importantly, who they’re with—who is friend, and who is foe.Guardian River spent years cataloging every detail of how his best friend accidentally electrocuted his wings, leaving him scarred, flightless, and furious. The healers say his molting is psychological. That he needs to “forgive and forget” to heal. Crows don’t forget. And River w...

Every famous love song has been written by an alpha for an omega.As a beta, I've never expected to be anyone's muse. I'm happy to stick in the background—and with a past like mine, it's simply safer avoiding the spotlight.That changes the day I learn my long-lost brother is Stix Rain, the drummer for one of the biggest rock bands in the world. We lost touch when we went into foster care. He ran away, I stayed, and I still carry the scars from growing up alo...

*His Pretty Little Queen needs to be read after His Pretty Little Burden*.Months ago, I was homeless and broken, and in search of a dangerous man.I found the Devil’s prototype in a flawless navy suit.Clay Butcher.A man twice my age, who kills brutally, takes territorially, and hides his emotions deep within layers of smooth control.He is my father’s enemy and the Don of the Cosa Nostra.

Pretending to date my rich, sexy, and caring friend Gabriel could grant us the deal of a lifetime . . . or ruin my chances of ever running my family's company.Gabe is handsome and surprisingly down to earth for a billionaire. Teaming up with him for a massive project shouldn't have required us to fake a relationship.My machista Latine family is to blame for forcing us into it. They think my goal should be to settle down and make babies, not run a corporatio...