A Wish in the Dark
By: Christina Soontornvat
4.29
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Newbery Medal Honor Title (2021) A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. All light i…
Want to Read $ 6.64"You can't run away from darkness. It's everywhere. The only way to see through it is to shine a light."-Christina Soontornvat, A Wish in the Dark
"You can't run away from darkness. It's everywhere. The only way to see through it is to shine a light."-Christina Soontornvat, A Wish in the Dark
"You can't run away from darkness. It's everywhere. The only way to see through it is to shine a light."-Christina Soontornvat, A Wish in the Dark
"The world wasn't what I wanted it to be," Pong went on. "Not Chattana. Not even Tanaburi. I thought if I ran far enough, I could find that perfect place where life is fair and everything is good. But even if I make it to the sea, even if I go all the way to the end of the world, I'll never find a place like that. It doesn't exist."-Christina Soontornvat, A Wish in the Dark
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1. Kinda Like Brothers
By: Coe Booth
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Jarrett doesn't trust Kevon. But he's got to share a room with him anyway. It was one thing when Ja… read more
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2. City Spies (City Spies #1)
By: James Ponti
4.31
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City foster care system to expose h… read more
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"Justice doesn’t require a membership card. Just a sense of right and wrong."-James Ponti, City Spies (City Spies #1)
3. The Lost Year
By: Katherine Marsh
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more
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4. The Unforgettable Logan Foster (Logan Foster, #1)
By: Shawn Peters
4.03
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Packed with superheroes, supervillains, and epic showdowns between good and evil, The Unforgettable… read more
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5. A Rover's Story
By: Jasmine Warga
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover. Meet Resilience, a Mars rover… read more
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6. Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
By: Pedro Martín
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy’s family and t… read more
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- middle grade
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"It was like the driveway at Disneyland but with way more automatic weapons."-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
"I like to say that my stories are 100% true 90% of the time. My memory and my heart like to play tricks on each other. The results are what makes my stories."-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
7. Raising Lumie
By: Joan Bauer
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, hopeful story of a girl and her puppy. Olive Hudson desperately wants a dog. But tha… read more
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8. Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor (Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor, #1)
By: Ally Carter
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
When 11-year-old April joins a group of kids living at Winterborne Home she doesn't expect to be th… read more
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9. A Wish in the Dark
By: Christina Soontornvat
4.29
Format: 384 pages, ebook
Newbery Medal Honor Title (2021) A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. All light i… read more
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- retellings
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- asian literature
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"You can't run away from darkness. It's everywhere. The only way to see through it is to shine a light."-Christina Soontornvat, A Wish in the Dark
"The world wasn't what I wanted it to be," Pong went on. "Not Chattana. Not even Tanaburi. I thought if I ran far enough, I could find that perfect place where life is fair and everything is good. But…"-Christina Soontornvat, A Wish in the Dark
10. Maizy Chen's Last Chance
By: Lisa Yee
4.29
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to The Golden Palace! Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota. . . until now. Her… read more
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"When you're in a position to help, that means you're in a good place in your own life."-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance
"Sometimes people don't know their dreams until they're in it. Other times, their dreams escape them because they are too busy being busy."-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance
11. Wink
By: Rob Harrell
4.27
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
A wrenching and hilarious story about embracing life's weirdness and surviving an unthinkable diagn… read more
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12. Ophie's Ghosts
By: Justina Ireland
4.28
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation makes her middle grade debut with a sweeping … read more
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13. Turtle Boy
By: M. Evan Wolkenstein
4.31
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Seventh grade is not going well for Will Levine. Kids at school bully him because of his funny-look… read more
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14. The Blackbird Girls
By: Anne Blankman
4.43
Format: None pages, None
On a spring morning in 1986, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry re… read more
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"La distanza tra i veri amici non conta, quando l'amicizia continua nei loro cuori."-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls
"Distance between true friends doesn't matter when their friendship lives in their hearts"-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls
"Siamo su questa terra per essere gentili gli uni con gli altri. Gli esseri umani sono la lingua di Dio."-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls
15. A Duet for Home
By: Karina Yan Glaser
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homel… read more
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16. A Game of Fox & Squirrels
By: Jenn Reese
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
After an incident shatters their family, eleven-year old Samantha and her older sister Caitlin are … read more
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17. Barakah Beats
By: Maleeha Siddiqui
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The First Rule of Punk and Save Me a Seat, Barakah Beats is a sweet, powerful, and joyo… read more
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18. My Life in the Fish Tank
By: Barbara Dee
4.21
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
From the acclaimed author of Maybe He Just Likes You and Halfway Normal comes a “compassionate…touc… read more
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19. Ahmed Aziz's Epic Year
By: Nina Hamza
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An Indian Muslim #ownvoices debut about an underachiever who must start over in a new state with th… read more
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20. Coop Knows the Scoop
By: Taryn Souders
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The whole town is talking about what's buried beneath the playground... Windy Bottom, Georgia is… read more
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21. The Elephant's Girl
By: Celesta Rimington
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An elephant never forgets...but Lexington Willow can't remember her past. When she was a toddler, a… read more
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