Amelie Sarn

Virgile Trouillot

Zoe takes what she believes to be the ghost of school director Iris Berrens' dead husband to a Halloween costume party at Groove High.

Fear of Pumpkins

Kim, Angie, and Clarisse devise a scheme to win the best parts in Zoe's production when Zoe is assigned a theatrical project after an inappropriate outburst in drama class.

Everyone on Stage

Vic and Ed begin to doubt their abilities as dancers, as the Groove Team prepares for a holiday show and a two-week school break.

Happy Holidays!

After the new school dietician puts the Groove High dance students on restrictive diets, the Groove Team discovers a student suffering from an eating disorder.

Recipe for Happiness

The Groove Team questions why Lena and Yael attend different dance schools, after Lena's brother Yael visits Groove High.

The Argument

The Groove Team finds their lives turned upside-down when a new student arrives in the middle of the school year and appears to be working as a spy for the Dean of Students, Miss Nakamura.

The New Girl

For readers of The Tyrant’s Daughter, Out of Nowhere, and I Am Malala, this poignant story about two Muslim sisters is about love, loss, religion, forgiveness, women’s rights, and freedom. Two sisters. Two lives. One future. Sohane loves no one more than her beautiful, carefree younger sister, Djelila. And she hates no one as much. They used to share everything. But now, Djelila is spending more time with her friends, partying, and hanging out with boys, while Sohane is becoming more religious. When Sohane starts wearing a head scarf, her school threatens to expel her. Meanwhile, Djelila is harassed by neighborhood bullies for not being Muslim enough. Sohane can’t help thinking that Djelila deserves what she gets. But she never could have imagined just how far things would go. . . . An Amelia Bloomer Project List Selection A CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Book of the Year with Outstanding Merit "Sarn’s poignant novel surely raises issues of religious freedom, but it is foremost a coming-of-age story about personal choice and the uniquely powerful bond between sisters."—The Horn Book Magazine "[A] moving story, which provides rich material for conversation about family relations, religious identity, and civil liberties."—Publisher's Weekly “Thought-provoking.”—Kirkus Reviews "Important and timely."—Booklist "In seamless chapters transitioning between present and past, this short, fast-paced, tragic story contrasting two clearly drawn Muslim sisters explores similar contemporary cultural and religious issues portrayed in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Does My Head Look Big in This?"—School Library Journal “A fair and balanced look at not just two equal and opposite perspectives on these issues, but at the multiple, refracted, messy nuances in between.”—The Bulletin “A searing portrait of the conflicts within a culture.”—VOYA “Sarn writes with concise, timely insight about culture, religion, and politics, but what lingers most is the powerful bonds of sisterhood.”—smithsonianapa.org

Amelie Sarn

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