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About Kat Zhang
Kat Zhang is an avid traveler, and after a childhood spent living in one book after another, she now builds stories for other people to visit. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, she spends her free time scribbling poetry, raiding local bookstores, and plotting where to travel next. She is represented by Emmanuelle Morgen of Stonesong. You can read about her travels, literary and otherwise, on her website or check her out on Twitter.
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Amy loves craft time at school. But when her teacher asks everyone to make their own dragon, Amy feels stuck. Her first dragon has a long, wingless body, stag-like horns, and eagle claws, but her friends don’t think it’s a real dragon. Then she makes dragons like theirs, but none of them feels quite right...None of them feels like hers.
After school, a story from Grandma sparks new inspiration, and Amy rounds up her family to help her. Together, can they make Amy’s perfect dragon?
Mia Chen is on what her mother calls a Grand Adventure. She’s not sure what to make of this family trip to China, and didn’t want to leave her friends for the summer, but she’s excited about the prospect of exploring with her Aunt Lin, the only adult who truly understands her.
Then Aunt Lin disappears, right after her old nemesis, a man named Ying, comes to visit. Mia knows that years ago, when Aunt Lin and Ying were sent to the Fuzhou countryside to work as laborers, the two searched for an ancient treasure together—one that still hasn’t been found. She’s suspicious that their shared history might be linked to Aunt Lin’s disappearance.
When Mia discovers an old map filled with riddles in Aunt Lin’s room, she quickly pieces together her mission: find the treasure, find her aunt. Now, Mia, along with her big brother, Jake, must solve the clues to rescue the person she knows best in the world—and maybe unearth a treasure greater than her wildest dreams.
Amy’s class has a new student from China! Amy tries hard to make Lin feel included, but she can’t draw him out of his shell. Then she sees Lin chattering happily in Chinese with his family. The gears in her head start to turn, and a plan blossoms. Step one: invite Lin to her dumpling party…
With a little help from her grandma and a shiny new banner, can Amy give Lin the warmest welcome?
Meet the funny, fierce, and fearless Amy Wu, who is determined to make a perfect bao bun today. Can she rise to the occasion?
Amy loves to make bao with her family. But it takes skill to make the bao taste and look delicious. And her bao keep coming out all wrong.
Then she has an idea that may give her a second chance…Will Amy ever make the perfect bao?
One of the happiest memories twelve-year-old Sophia Wallace has is of her tenth birthday. Her mother made her a cake that year—and not a cake from a boxed-mix, but from scratch. She remembers the way the frosting tasted, the way the pink sugar roses dissolved on her tongue.
This memory, and a scant few others like it, is all Sophia has of her mother, so she keeps them close. She keeps them secret, too. Because as paltry as these memories are, she shouldn’t have them at all.
The truth is, Sophia Wallace’s mother died when she was six years old. But that isn’t how she remembers it. Not always.
Sophia has never told anyone about her unusual memories—snapshots of a past that never happened. But everything changes when Sophia’s seventh grade English class gets an assignment to research solar eclipses. She becomes convinced that the upcoming solar eclipse will grant her the opportunity to make her alternate life come true, to enter a world where her mother never died.
With the help of two misfit boys, she must figure out a way to bring her mother back to her—before the opportunity is lost forever.
In the final installment in the Hybrid Chronicles—bound to captivate fans of Ally Condie, Lauren Oliver, and Scott Westerfeld—Addie and Eva must come to terms with sharing a body as they fight for lasting change and hybrid freedom.
Addie and Eva barely survived the explosion at the Powatt institution, but they refuse to sit still as the nation ripples with rebellion. When an ambitious reporter offers Addie and Eva the chance to go undercover and film the wretched conditions of a hybrid institution, the girls jump at the chance to once again take part in the fight for hybrid freedom. As Eva and Addie walk into danger, they cling to each other and the hope of a better future. But the price they might pay is higher than they ever could have imagined.
In the second novel in the Hybrid Chronicles—perfect for fans of Ally Condie, Lauren Oliver, and Scott Westerfeld—Eva and Addie struggle to share their body as they clash over romance and the fight for hybrid freedom.
Addie and Eva escaped imprisonment at a horrific psychiatric hospital. Now they should be safe, living among an underground hybrid movement. But safety is starting to feel constricting. Faced with the possibility of being in hiding forever, the girls are eager to help bring about change—now. The answer seems to lie in a splinter group willing to go to extremes for hybrid freedom, but as Addie and Eva fall ever deeper into their plans, what they thought was the solution to their problems might just be the thing that destroys everything—including their bond to each other.
Fans of Stephenie Meyer's The Host will enjoy What's Left of Me, Kat Zhang's shocking, thought-provoking, and emotionally charged story of two souls sharing one body.
What's Left of Me, the first book of the Hybrid Chronicles, is set in an alternate reality where everyone is born with two souls. But one soul is naturally dominant, and in early childhood, the other soul fades away.
That didn't happen for Addie and Eva. Now fifteen, Eva clings to life inside the body she shares with Addie, although she can no longer speak or even move.
Addie does everything she can to hide the presence of her sister soul. Eva's very existence is illegal. If their secret is revealed, it could mean death for both of them.
Après avoir suivi de multiples thérapies et traitements, Eva ne devrait plus exister. Et pourtant... Piégé dans un corps qui n'est plus censé être le sien, son esprit n'a pas disparu. Elle et sa soeur sont désormais «hybride» : de ces êtres qui se cachent car ils n'osent pas trancher. Ces êtres que l'on traque pour les enfermer dans des hôpitaux, d'où ils ne reviennent jamais...
«No debería existir, pero existo...»
Dos personas, un solo cuerpo.
Dos personalidades, una sola cara.
Dos mentes, pero solo puede quedar una.
«Addie y yo nacimos dentro del mismo cuerpo; nuestras almas estaban unidas desde antes de llegar al mundo. Una de nosotras tenía que desaparecer» (Novela juvenil)
En un mundo casi idéntico al nuestro... Todas las personas nacen con dos almas en un mismo cuerpo. Pero, pocos años después, una de las dos se va apagando hasta que el individuo se asienta, y prevalece una de las dos personalidades. Pero hay algunos individuos que nunca se asientan, y pasan a ser los temidos híbridos, que son perseguidos y encerrados.
Addie y Eva son dos hermanas que están tardando en asentarse, para gran preocupación de sus padres. Así que cuando Addie da muestras de convertirse en el alma dominante, todos sienten un gran alivio. Sin embargo, Eva nunca llega a desaparecer. Su cuerpo no le obedece, pero ella sigue allí, y solo Addie lo sabe. Y, cuando descubre que existe la posibilidad de volver a caminar, a reír, a cantar… Se aferra a ella con todas sus fuerzas.
«Una historia sumamente original y provocadora. El profundo vínculo que hay entre Addie y Eva y el misterioso miedo de la sociedad en la que viven los híbridos resultan fascinantes.» —Publishers Weekly
«Una impresionante y novedosa historia que redefine qué significa ser "humano".» —Lauren DeStefano, autora de Efímera
«Una trama original, una fabulosa recreación y unos personajes asombrosos hacen de este libro una lectura maravillosa que reflexiona sobre el significado de ser "humano".» —Book Overdose