Beggar's Sky YA_Gift_Guide … A deft and ambitious

… A deft and ambitious storyteller

to persuade the all-white US Lawn Tennis Association to change its policy and allow African American star Althea Gibson to compete for the US championship in 1950

as lands around the globe are drawn into fiery conflict

it’s up to Ryu to lend a helping fist

best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce • Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

Beggar's Sky YA_Gift_Guide … A deft and ambitiousA wildly original alien contact novel, set against a vivid backdrop of near Earth corporate intrigue. Trillionaire Igbal Renz has constructed a starship capable of making the twenty year journey to Alpha Centauri. So why is he stopping at barely one tenth that distance, with a cargo of a hundred frozen scientists and diplomats? Rumors abound that Renz Ventures, Inc., has made contact with . . . something. And yet, as deadly stealth ships prowl the