First in the Hybrid Chronicles, Zhang’s debut novel, set in a xenophobic alternate America, is narrated by 15-year-old Eva, who shares a body with her “sister,” Addie. The girls are a ...

Charise Mericle Harper, illus. by Scott Magoon. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-177998-5 Harper (Cupcake) offers a series of offbeat similes about the nature of boys. "If ...