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Why We’re Excited: The highly anticipated conclusion to Lauren Roberts’s wildly popular Powerless trilogy sees Paedyn and Kai return to the kingdom of Ilya. Kitt is newly king, grieving the ...

A kid home-schooled by elders finds himself among kids his own age: Here’s The New York Times list for the week ended Jan. 18.

YA books include ‘Last Bookstore,’ and poet Amanda Gorman has a picture book. Here’s the New York Times list for the week ...

(Ages 14 to 18) 4. THE POWERLESS TRILOGY, by Lauren Roberts. (Simon & Schuster) A story of forbidden love between Paedyn, an Ordinary, and Kai, an Elite, in the kingdom of Ilya. (Ages 14 and up ...

“Powerless” is the first book in a young adult trilogy that follows the main character Paedyn Gray. Gray’s greatest secret is that she is powerless, which is a death sentence in her kingdom. After she ...

Party leaders disagree sharply on how to interpret the losses that gave Republicans complete control of the federal government, with some calling for a reinvention and others a wait-and-see. By ...

“I feel powerless and angry that I can’t help my family. This is a country of immigrants. Why are they attacking us? My family has committed no crime,” said B. Diaz, a Venezuelan who asked that her ...

To own an electric vehicle in rural east Galway is to be thought of as eccentric, if not downright strange. You get suspicious glances over hedgerows, as farmers in Massey Ferguson tractors wonder ...

“I feel powerless and angry that I can’t help my family. This is a country of immigrants. Why are they attacking us? My family has committed no crime,” said B. Diaz, a Venezuelan who asked ...