"In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor...

At home or work, do you find yourself in similar conflicts or situations again and again? Do your relationships seem fine-but you sometimes wonder if those around you might disagree? On an immediate level, have you ever wished for greater clarity, depth, and delight in all of your experiences? "It's much easier to see the unconscious and self-defeating habits of others than our own," Kelly Boys notes, "and perceptually, to miss so much that's happening...

Poems from the alternating perspectives of two students explore such topics as hair, hobbies, and family dinners.

One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesn't recognize calls out to him. To Kelly's shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kelly's closest friends in high school - and, before his disappearance nearly twenty years before, skinny, white, and Jewish. Martin then tells an astonishing story: he's had a plastic surgeon perform 'racial reassignment surgery.'...

Young readers learn about the big and little emotions that color their relationships and experiences.

"A primer that explores how our racist American society socializes us all to be racially stupid--and what we can do about it"--