If I Could Fly by Judith Ortiz Cofer

"When I come out of my room ready to go to church, I find Papi in the kitchen drinking yesterday's coffee."

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Summary:  When fifteen-year-old Doris's mother, a professional singer, returns to Puerto Rico and her father finds a girlfriend, Doris cares for a neighbor's pigeons and relies on friends as she begins to find her own voice and wings.

Farrar Straus Giroux; 195 pages

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

"Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her parents' house, where she washed the same pink-and-yellow teacups and matching gravy boats every day, slept on the same embroidered pillow, and played with the same small and amiable dog."

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Summary:

Twelve-year-old September's ordinary life in Omaha turns to adventure when a Green Wind takes her to Fairyland to retrieve a talisman the new and fickle Marquess wants from the enchanted woods.

Publisher: Feiwel and Friends; 247 pages