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What do you do when Fate shows up in your rose bed with three-inch canines and retractable claws? Robert--not Bob--Stevenson wakes up one morning in his Vermont home to find a Bengal tiger sitting in his rose garden. Is the tiger real? Or has the illness that has invaded every other part of Robert's body finally and quite literally gone to his head? Remember, once you get on a tiger's back, there is no dismounting!

I rediscovered a bit of myself in Jun-li, and in May-lee Chai's beautifully constructed and perfectly contained world. It's the deftly and subtly rendered intricacies that mark this story, link it to the experience of Asians in America, and linger in the imagination. Julie Shigekuni, author of A Bridge Between Us, In Plain View, and Invisible Gardens When you are eleven years old, is there anything more humiliating, or bound to cause a fight, than shopping with your mother when your body is in full-throttle warp? Yes, there is: picking out the school-required underwear.

Rollo is tired of humans. Their cities are dirty, and their gizmos are dumb. He knows mankind is wrecking the planet. Rollo's dream is to escape to the Sierra Nevada mountains where he can live alone and be free of other people. There's just one problem with his scheme: Rollo's hungry human stomach. No matter how much food he carries in his backpack, he always runs out. Inevitably, Rollo has to come back to the "messed-up, man-made world" or starve. All this changes when Rollo finds an old, dusty, bear suit in a costume shop.

Mit dem Auslandsjahr in Amerika geht für June ein großer Traum in Erfüllung. Für ein Jahr frei sein, neue Menschen kennenlernen und sich aufs Lernen konzentrieren - das ist ihr Plan. Doch so leicht wird es ihr auf der Cornell Universität in Ithaca, New York, nicht gemacht. Als sie auf Paxton und seine Clique trifft, wird ihr Leben gehörig auf den Kopf gestellt. Etwas stimmt mit diesen Jungs nicht, da ist sich June sicher. Ungewollt gerät sie zwischen die Fronten und kommt dem gut behüteten Geheimnis des Black Circle immer näher.