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…
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1. Attack of the Black Rectangles
By: Amy Sarig King
4.21
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
"Why do they treat kids like we don't mean anything?"-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"If you're comfortable learning history, it's the wrong history."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"I love banned books. I used to read as many to you as I could when you were little, Mac."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"But if we want to change the world so it's good for everyone, it's important to talk about the truth."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
2. Invisible
By: Christina Diaz Gonzalez
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
For fans of Twins and Allergic, a must-have graphic novel about five very different students who ar… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- juvenile
3. Dress Coded
By: Carrie Firestone
4.17
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
In this debut middle-grade girl-power friendship story, perfect for fans of Moxie , an eighth grade… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"What if, instead of seeing us as covered or uncovered body parts, you saw us as people and you learned our names?"-Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded
4. 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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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- juvenile
5. Chester Keene Cracks the Code
By: Kekla Magoon
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Cracking the code isn't all it's cracked up to be in this scavenger hunt adventure from a Coretta S… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- juvenile
6. Lasagna Means I Love You
By: Kate O'Shaughnessy
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Library Binding
What are the essential ingredients that make a family? Eleven-year-old Mo is making up her own reci… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- juvenile
7. 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
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- divorce
- juvenile
8. Honestly Elliott
By: Gillian McDunn
4.33
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes finding yourself can be a little messy. Elliott has been struggling since starting mid… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- mental health
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- family
- divorce
"The goal isn't perfection- the goal is making something new. (pg. 18)"-Gillian McDunn, Honestly Elliott
9. Iveliz Explains It All
By: Andrea Beatriz Arango
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Library Binding
How do you speak up when it feels like no one is listening? One girl takes on seventh grade while f… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
"and it's important to stop, be kind to ourselves, and ask for help- ask for love."-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All
"But you have to be somewhere I can find. You understand? Somewhere I can find. I nod, because I know what he is saying and what he is not saying. He can't find me if I'm not here. (p. 113 of the hard…"-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All
"I am not okay, and sometimes I wish people wouldn't believe me when I say I am. I wish they would ask, just one more time, and I wish they wouldn't tiptoe around me like I'm a poem, so I could show t…"-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All
10. What Happened to Rachel Riley?
By: Claire Swinarski
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An eighth grader uses social media posts, passed notes, and other clues to find out why a formerly … read more
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- childrens
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11. Concealed
By: Christina Diaz Gonzalez
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Ivette Joanna And now: Katrina Whatever her name is, it won't last long. Katrina doesn't k… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
12. Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero
By: Saadia Faruqi
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Yusuf Azeem has spent all his life in the small town of Frey, Texas—and nearly that long waiting fo… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
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- contemporary
13. Yonder
By: Ali Standish
4.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Danny Timmons has looked up to Jack Bailey ever since the older boy saved two small children from d… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
14. The Secret Battle of Evan Pao
By: Wendy Wan-Long Shang
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Middle school can be a battlefield... From award-winning author Wendy Wan-Long Shang comes a poigna… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- juvenile
15. Lupe Wong Won't Dance
By: Donna Barba Higuera
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed cause… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- juvenile
16. The Golden Hour
By: Niki Smith
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Deep & Dark Blue comes a tender graphic novel, perfect for our time, that ge… read more
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- middle grade
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- mental health
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- contemporary
17. Troublemaker
By: John Cho
4.03
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestselller!An Indiebound bestseller!Troublemaker follows the events of t… read more
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- childrens
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- family
18. Rivals (A Game Changer companion novel)
By: Tommy Greenwald
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A novel about two student-athletes searching for stardom, a young reporter searching for the truth,… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero
By: Kelly J. Baptist
4.33
Format: 208 pages, ebook
A coming-of-age tale about a boy who discovers a love of poetry after finding his late father's jou… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- juvenile
20. Candidly Cline
By: Kathryn Ormsbee
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A must-read for fans of Julie Murphy and Ashley Herring Blake, this queer coming-of-age story from … read more
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- young adult
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- contemporary
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21. 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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- middle grade
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- family
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