Title: Maya and the cotton candy boy
Description: Newly arrived from Kazakhstan, twelve-year-old Maya Alazova resents the way her mother babies her brother, but when she leaves her English Language Learner program for mainstream classes and has to deal with a boy, a bully, and conflict at home, she finds her brother can help with their new culture in ways their parents can't.
Subjects: Teenage immigrants, Family problems, Brothers and sisters, Minority teenagers, Bullying in schools, Juvenile fiction, Bullies, Fiction, Children's fiction
Places: United States