Hiding the stress of her home issues behind a brave face, Iris competes for valuable assignments that may one day earn her the coveted columnist position. Now Olivia sees what has unraveled generations of her family, and where her father may have come from. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia―the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion!

Bloom by Kevin Panetta | Goodreads

Stiekem vindt hij dit veel gezelliger dan hij in eerste instantie had verwacht en Hector vindt zijn nieuwe baan tof.Free to conduct your lives in the classical manner, to escape this solar system, to populate the stars. According to Strasheim, the Pasteur is "like a bathroom with seven shower stalls and a streetcar cockpit wedged incongruously at one end, a utility closet wedged in the other. As Mia gets to know her team, who are each well fleshed out with their own stories that become relevant later, we flashback to Mia’s time in a boarding school where she fell in love with a mysterious new student. Messy Roots is a laugh-out-loud, heartfelt, and deeply engaging story of their journey to find themself–as an American, as the daughter of Chinese immigrants, as a queer person, and as a Wuhanese American in the middle of a pandemic.

Bloom | written by Kevin Panetta; illustrated by Savanna

When they met, Emma brought Jacob to the beach and the two went in her little boat farther into the water. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her.When the plants turn carnivorous, Petra, Anaya, and Seth are the only ones able to withstand their strange perfumes and their acidic interiors, and they realize they must have something more in common. Fans of Monster and of the work of Walter Dean Myers—and even kids who think they don’t like to read—will devour this graphic adaptation. A tender blend of sugary, buttery, and other complex flavors that's baked with a tremendous dash of heart. Tillie Walden is legendary on the queer graphic novel scene by this point but if you have managed to miss this stunning work then here’s your friendly push to pick it up next. The girls are soon attacked by a group of teenagers; one of the teens steals a walkie-talkie from Tiffany.