Hold Still Premio San Clemente for Lingua estranxeira (1996) Zaina Arafat's powerful debut novel

Zaina Arafat's powerful debut novel traces her protagonist's progress from blushing teen to creative and confused adulthood

at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989

It is a tale of fierce family loyalty

Rohini Mohan's searing account of three lives caught up in the devastation looks beyond the heroism of wartime survival to reveal the creeping violence of the everyday

Hold Still Premio San Clemente for Lingua estranxeira (1996) Zaina Arafat's powerful debut novelAn arresting story about starting over after a friend's suicide, from a breakthrough new voice in YA fictiondear caitlin, there are so many things that i want so badly to tell you but i just can't. Devastating, hopeful, hopeless, playful . . . in words and illustrations, Ingrid left behind a painful farewell in her journal for Caitlin. Now Caitlin is left alone, by loss and by choice, struggling to find renewed hope in the wake of her best friend's