Brother's Keeper
By: Julie Lee
4.34
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Can two children escape North Korea on their own? North Korea. December, 1950. Twelve-year-ol…
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1. Habibi
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
An award-winning novel about identity, family, and friendship from renowned writer and editor Naomi… read more
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- childrens
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2. Breaking Stalin's Nose
By: Eugene Yelchin
3.84
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011 Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet You… read more
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- childrens
- historical
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- historical fiction
3. Crossing the Wire
By: Will Hobbs
4.33
Format: 700 pages, Paperback
When falling crop prices threaten his family with starvation, fifteen-year-old Victor Flores heads … read more
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4. The Juvie Three
By: Gordon Korman
3.81
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Gecko Fosse drove the getaway car. Terence Florian ran with the worst gang in Chicago. Arjay Moran … read more
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5. Unbound: A Novel in Verse
By: Ann E. Burg
3.58
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of All the Broken Pieces and Serafina's Promise comes a new novel-in-… read more
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6. Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
By: Meg Medina
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
In Meg Medina's compelling new novel, a Latina teen is targeted by a bully at her new school - and … read more
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7. How to Become a Planet
By: Nicole Melleby
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For Pluto, summer has always started with a trip to the planetarium. It’s the launch to her favorit… read more
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- fiction
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- young adult
8. Alone
By: Megan E. Freeman
4.14
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she … read more
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- survival
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9. 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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- childrens
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10. Nowhere Boy
By: Katherine Marsh
4.34
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Fourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brus… read more
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- historical fiction
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- audiobook
11. Wildoak
By: C.C. Harrington
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Maggie’s stutter makes going to school hard. She will do almost anything to avoid speaking in class… read more
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12. Tumble
By: Celia C. Pérez
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The First Rule of Punk, a dazzling novel about a young girl who co… read more
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- audiobook
13. Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria
By: Muhammad Najem
4.56
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A teenage boy risks his life to tell the truth in this gripping graphic memoir by youth activist Mu… read more
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- middle grade
- war
- family
14. 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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- middle grade
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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
15. Alebrijes
By: Donna Barba Higuera
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The next stunning novel from Donna Barba Higuera, author of Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning T… read more
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- audiobook
16. Brother's Keeper
By: Julie Lee
4.34
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Can two children escape North Korea on their own? North Korea. December, 1950. Twelve-year-ol… read more
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- survival
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- historical
- war
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- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- audiobook
17. Violets Are Blue
By: Barbara Dee
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed My Life in the Fish Tank and Maybe He Just Likes You comes a movin… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
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18. Finding Junie Kim
By: Ellen Oh
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A story of family, hope, and survival, inspired by the author's mother’s real-life experiences duri… read more
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- historical
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- war
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- family
19. Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
By: Susan Hood
4.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias "Anna") and her s… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
20. 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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- audiobook
21. Show Me a Sign (Show Me a Sign #1)
By: Ann Clare LeZotte
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Deaf author and librarian Ann Clare LeZotte weaves an Own Voices story inspired by the true history… read more
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"Does being deaf determine my worth?"-Ann Clare LeZotte, Show Me a Sign (Show Me a Sign #1)
22. 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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- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- audiobook
"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
23. Tune It Out
By: Jamie Sumner
4.31
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
A 2020 BookExpo Book Buzz Pick From the author of the acclaimed Roll with It comes a moving nove… read more
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- audiobook
24. Under the Broken Sky
By: Mariko Nagai
4.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A middle-grade novel-in-verse about a Japanese orphan’s experience in occupied rural Manchuria duri… read more
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- war
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- fiction
- historical fiction
25. The Last Windwitch
By: Jennifer Adam
4.10
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
Many years ago, in the kingdom of Fenwood Reach, there was a powerful Windwitch who wove the season… read more
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- audiobook
26. Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today
By: Alice Wong
4.25
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and in… read more
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- audiobook
"Art isn’t necessarily about beauty. Art is supposed to make you feel something. And I began to realize that my appearance is my art. My body, my face, my scars told a story. My story. - Ariel Henly"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today
"Disability is both apparent and nonapparent. Disability is pain, struggle, brilliance, abundance, and joy. Disability is sociopo- litical, cultural, and biological. Being visible and claiming a disab…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today
27. All You Knead Is Love
By: Tanya Guerrero
4.16
Format: None pages, None
Twelve-year-old Alba doesn't want to live with her estranged grandmother in Barcelona. But her … read more
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- young adult
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"I want you to promise me that you won't ever lose yourself. If someone tries to change you in the name of love, you run the opposite direction. Because that person doesn't deserve you. Okay?"-Tanya Guerrero, All You Knead Is Love
"...so far, the sunflowers blended into one another, creating a solid carpet of golden yellow. Somewhere out there was my future. I couldn't see it. But I knew it was there. And for the first time eve…"-Tanya Guerrero, All You Knead Is Love
28. Black Bird, Blue Road
By: Sofiya Pasternack
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this historical fantasy novel from Sydney Taylor Honor winner and National Jewish Book Award fin… read more
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
29. Karthik Delivers
By: Sheela Chari
3.93
Format: None pages, None
A middle-grade novel set during the financial crisis, following a boy who makes deliveries for his … read more
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30. Fossil Hunter: How Mary Anning Changed the Science of Prehistoric Life
By: Cheryl Blackford
4.20
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
“This in-depth, beautifully illustrated biography of Mary Anning sings with the passion and perseve… read more
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31. Caprice
By: Coe Booth
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the groundbreaking author of Tyrell, an astonishing middle-grade novel about a girl overcoming… read more
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