2020 |
The Undefeated |
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Kwame Alexander
Horn Book Alexander and Nelson honor the achievements, courage, and perseverance of ordinary black people as ...More |
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2020 |
Other Words for Home |
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Jasmine Warga
Book list From start to finish, Warga's middle-grade debut puts its hands around your heart and holds it,...More |
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2020 |
Genesis Begins Again |
Alicia D. Williams
Kirkus Thirteen-year-old Genesis Anderson is a black girl who has been dealt a heavy hand in life.She's h...More |
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2019 |
The Night Diary |
Veera Hiranandani
Publishers Weekly After introverted Nisha receives a diary for her 12th birthday, she begins to find her voic...More |
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2019 |
The Book of Boy |
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock
School Library Journal Gr 4-6-Boy is the village outcast. A hunchbacked orphan with a mysterious past and a k...More |
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2018 |
Hello, Universe |
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Erin Entrada Kelly
Book list *Starred Review* Four middle-schoolers' fates intertwine one summer in Kelly's (The Land of...More |
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2018 |
Long Way Down |
Jason Reynolds
Publishers Weekly Will, 15, is following his neighborhood's well-established rules-don't cry, don'...More |
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2018 |
Piecing Me Together |
Renee Watson
Book list Who owns the river and the line, and the hook, and the worm? wonders Jade, a scholarship kid at Por...More |
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2017 |
Wolf Hollow |
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Lauren Wolk
School Library Journal Gr 5-8-In 1943 rural Pennsylvania, Annabelle is plagued by intense and violent bullyin...More |
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2015 |
The War that Saved My Life |
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
School Library Journal Gr 4-6-Bradley turns her keen historical eye from Monticello (Jefferson's Sons, Pe...More |
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2015 |
Roller Girl |
Victoria Jamieson
School Library Journal Gr 4-8-Twelve-year-old Astrid realizes that her interests are distinctly different fro...More |
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2015 |
Echo |
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Pam Munoz Ryan
Publishers Weekly The fairy tale that opens this elegant trio of interconnected stories from Ryan (The Dreame...More |
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2015 |
The Crossover |
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Kwame Alexander
School Library Journal Gr 6-10-Twins Josh and Jordan are junior high basketball stars, thanks in large part ...More |
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2014 |
El Deafo |
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Cece Bell
Publishers Weekly A bout of childhood meningitis left Bell (Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover) deaf at age four,...More |
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2014 |
Brown Girl Dreaming |
Jacqueline Woodson
Book list *Starred Review* What is this book about? In an appended author's note, Woodson says it best: m...More |
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2014 |
Doll Bones |
Holly Black
School Library Journal Gr 4-7-At 12 years old, lifelong friends Zach, Poppy, and Alice are ferociously cling...More |
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2014 |
The Year of Billy Miller |
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Kevin Henkes
Book list Billy Miller is starting second grade, and though his teacher, Mrs. Silver, tells the class it is t...More |
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2014 |
One Came Home |
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Amy Timberlake
Book list To find out what really happened to her purportedly dead sister, sharpshooting 13-year-old Georgie ...More |
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2014 |
Paperboy |
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Vince Vawter
School Library Journal Gr 6-9-After an overthrown baseball busts his best friend's lip, 11-year-old Vict...More |
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2013 |
The One and Only Ivan |
Katherine Applegate
School Library Journal Gr 3-7-This tender tale of friendship and hope is narrated by a silverback gorilla li...More |
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2013 |
Splendors and Glooms |
Laura Amy Schlitz
Book list *Starred Review* A brooding, Dickensian novel with a touch of fantasy and a glimmer of hope, Schlit...More |
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2013 |
Bomb |
Steve Sheinkin
Publishers Weekly In his highly readable storytelling style, Sheinkin (The Notorious Benedict Arnold) weaves...More |
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2013 |
Three Times Lucky |
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Sheila Turnage
Publishers Weekly Eleven years ago, Mo LoBeau arrived in Tupelo Landing, N.C., a newborn baby girl washed do...More |
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2013 |
Dead End in Norvelt |
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Jack Gantos
Book list Looks like a bummer of a summer for 11-year-old Jack (with a same-name protagonist, it's tempti...More |
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2013 |
Breaking Stalins Nose |
Eugene Yelchin
School Library Journal Gr 5-7-Velchin skillfully combines narrative with dramatic black-and-white illustrati...More |
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