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Clara and Asha. A lovely picture book that tells the story of Clara and her giant, imaginary, fish friend and their dreamlike adventures.
Clara y Ashe - Text in Spanish.
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A Kitten’s Tale. This is a picture book story of four little kittens and their reactions to snow.
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My Friend Rabbit. This picture book of mouse and his troublesome, irrepressible rabbit friend won the Caldecott Medal.
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The Prairie Train. Illustrated by Eric Rohmann and written by Irish author, Antoine O Flatharta, this picture book fantasy of the meeting an Irish boy who comes to America and a train who dreams is available in paperback only.
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Pumpkinhead. This is an unusual picture book story of Otho, a boy with a pumpkin for a head.
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Time Flies. A wordless, Caldecott Honor picture book that explores the idea that birds are descendents of dinosaurs.
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Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850. This is a beautifully designed, nonfiction book for middle school through adult readers.
It contains eye-witness accounts, great illustrations, an extensive bibliography, and won the Sibert Award for nonfiction.
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The Boy Who Dared. A novel told in flashbacks of the 16-year-old, WWII, German boy who tried to expose Nazi propaganda. It is based on a true story.
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The Flag Maker: A Story of the Star-Spangled Banner. A nonfiction picture book that tells the story of the making of flag that inspired Francis Scott Key’s poem.
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Growing Up in Coal Country. Through photo-essay and oral histories middle schoolers experience child labor of 100 years ago. It is available in paperback only.
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Hitler Youth. This book is a Newbery Honor/Sibert Award winner suitable for middle school. It details Hitler's strategy for German youth by exploring the experiences of twelve young individuals from 1933-45.
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Kids on Strike! An ALA Best Book for YA and Parents’ Choice Award winner, this history of children in labor strikes focuses on the northeastern Pennsylvania mining industry at the turn of the 20th Century.
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After Tupac and D Foster. A coming of age novel of three girl friends in Queens, NY who share a love of Tupac Shakur’s rap music.
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Behind You. Stand alone sequel to If You Come Softly about grief and hope.
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Between Madison and Palmetto. Third installment in the Margaret and Maizon trilogy for middle schoolers.
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Coming on Home Soon. In this Caldecott Honor picture book, Ada Ruth and her grandmother have to adjust when mama goes away to work during WWII.
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The Dear One. Afeni is 12 when Rebecca, 15 and pregnant, comes to live with Afeni and her mother. Both girls have a lot to cope with in this novel that explores teenage pregnancy, alternative lifestyles and adoption. Available in paperback only.
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Feathers. An Emily Dickinson poem about hope inspires a new look at life for a middle school girl in this Newbery Honor book.
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From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun. In this Coretta Scott King Honor book, a confused and resentful 13-year-old boy struggles to accept his mother's love for another woman. Available in paperback only.
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The House You Pass on the Way. Sensitive novel set in the South of a 14-year-old girl struggling with her identity: Is she black, white, straight, gay? Available in paperback only.
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Hush. In poetic prose, this National Book Award finalist and Sequoyah Masterlist title tells the story of a middle school girl whose family must go into the witness protection program.
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I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This. An 8th grader befriends her classmate Lena who is living with incest.
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If You Come Softly. This interracial high school romance set in a prep school in NY won the Black Eyed Susan Award.
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Last Summer with Maizon. First book in the Margaret and Maizon trilogy for middle schoolers about friendship.
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Lena. In this sequel to I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, Lena and her sister run away dressed as boys.
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Locomotion. This novel in poems of an 11-year-old boy in foster care was on the Sequoyah YA Masterlist. Available in paperback only.
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Maizon at Blue Hill. Gifted middle schooler, Maizon, goes to boarding school and faces prejudice in this second volume of the trilogy.
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Miracle's Boys. Coretta Scott King Award; three brothers aged 12, 15 and 21, orphaned by the death of their mother, deal with their grief in different ways.
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The Other Side. Picture book story of two little girls who live with a fence between them, but become friends in spite of segregation.
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Our Gracie Aunt. This picture book tells the story of a brother and sister, seemingly abandoned by their mother, who are placed in foster care with an unknown aunt. Available in paperback only.
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Show Way. Newbery Honor picture book of African-American women's history based on Ms. Woodson’s own family.
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Sweet, Sweet Memory. Life goes on for a little girl and her family after grandpa dies in this picture book about loss and grief. Available in paperback only.
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Visiting Day. This picture book details everyone’s preparations for visiting day at prison, and illustrates unconditional family love.
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We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past. Picture book tells the story of the characters and food at a family picnic with warmth and humor. Available in paperback only.
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