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Banned Book Week
If You Like Anne of Green Gables, Read These!
Jewish Heritage Month - Juvenile/Middle Grade
TIME Magazine Best YA Reads
If You Like Anne of Green Gables, Read These!
Jewish Heritage Month - Juvenile/Middle Grade
TIME Magazine Best YA Reads
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Description
Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old Bo is used to it being just her and her mom in their cozy New York apartment, but when her mom gets married, Bo must adjust to her new sisters and a music-minded blended family that is much larger, louder, and more complex than she ever imagined.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Sixth grader Abigail, assigned a different homeroom than her two best friends and made only the alternate on the pom-pom squad, learns a lot about popularity and true friendship when paired with unpopular Gabby for a year-long "Friendly Letter Assignment."
Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Young Lemony Snicket investigates a rash of fires that have plagued the town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea, revealing secrets that involve the Department of Education and the notorious villain Hangfire.
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 2
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Tsunami the SeaWing is overjoyed to be reunited with her fellow ocean-dwelling dragons. For the first time in her life, she actually fits in. But not everything is as perfect as it seems underwater"--
7) Clash
Author
Series
Click volume 4
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Olive, meet Natasha. There's a new kid in town! From the moment Natasha sets foot in class, it's clear she's one of the coolest kids in sixth grade. Everyone wants to be her friend, including Olive . . . but things might not be so easy. Olive tries her best to befriend Nat, but it seems like the only thing they have in common is that they both want to hang out with Olive's friends! Watching as Natasha gets closer with some of her best buds, Olive...
9) Sunny
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion, dancing.
11) Dream on, Amber
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Amber's Japanese father left when she was little, and her sister Bella was just a baby, so now she fills in the frustrating gap in her life with imagined conversations, and writes letters to Bella that seem to come from their father.
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The five dragonets of the prophecy are hoping to hide in safety in the RainWing kingdom, and Glory is hoping to learn more about her own identity, but when tribe members start disappearing and the old queen does nothing, it is up to Glory and her friends to uncover the lurking evil.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Obaydas family is in need of some good fortune, and her aunt has an idea to bring the family luckdress Obayda, the youngest of four sisters, as a boy, a bacha posh . Life in this in-between place is confusing, but once Obayda meets another bacha posh , everything changes. Their transformation wont last forever, thoughunless the two best friends can figure out a way to make it stick and make their newfound freedoms endure.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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AAPI Middle Grade Fiction
If You Like Front Desk, Read These!
Islamic Heritage- MID/JF
Womens History Month - MID
If You Like Front Desk, Read These!
Islamic Heritage- MID/JF
Womens History Month - MID
Description
Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven't quite prepared her for starting school in the US-and her new label of “Middle Eastern,”...
15) Honestly Elliott
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Struggling with ADHD, loneliness, and connecting with his divorced father who would rather see him embrace sports instead of cooking, sixth-grader Elliott finds an unlikely friend in popular, perfect Maribel when the two are paired in a school-wide contest.
Author
Series
Fudge books volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem.
17) Harbor me
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On any other night, the train departing from Stain'd Station does not stop on its way to the city. What makes this night different is far less important than what waits on the other side of the tracks as readers reach the end of the line with this conclusion to the series.
Author
Series
Zoe Washington stories volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
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