A Place to Belong
By: Cynthia Kadohata
4.06
Format: 405 pages, Paperback
A Japanese-American family, reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese internment camps, give…
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1. Blackbird Fly
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
4.16
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Future rock star, or friendless misfit? That’s no choice at all. In this debut tween novel, twelve-… read more
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- childrens
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- audiobook
"None of it mattered, because there was music."-Erin Entrada Kelly, Blackbird Fly
"It's weird how something can be so scary and awesome all at the same time.."-Erin Entrada Kelly, Blackbird Fly
2. Super Sushi Ramen Express: One Family's Journey Through the Belly of Japan
By: Michael Booth
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The Japanese go to the most extraordinary lengths an… read more
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- japan
3. The Fourteenth Goldfish
By: Jennifer L. Holm , Tad Carpenter
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Galileo. Newton. Salk. Oppenheimer. Science can change the world . . . but can it go too far? Eleve… read more
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- young adult
- family
- fiction
4. A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (砂漠に咲いたひまわり) Japanese/ English Bilingual
By: Felicia Hoshino , None
4.67
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Under the harsh summer sun, Mari's art class has begun. But it's hard to think of anything to draw … read more
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5. A Single Shard
By: Linda Sue Park
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch'ulp'o, a potters' village famed for delicate celado… read more
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6. Pictures of Hollis Woods
By: Patricia Reilly Giff
4.03
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Hollis Woods is the place where a baby was abandoned is the baby's name is an artist is… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
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- juvenile
"There are some people who don't even know enough to fall in love with the water."-Patricia Reilly Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods
"Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it,…"-Patricia Reilly Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods
7. Braced
By: Alyson Gerber
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first contemporary novel about a disorder that bends the lives of ten percent of all teenagers:… read more
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8. Safiyyah's War
By: Hiba Noor Khan
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the true story of how the Grand Mosque of Paris saved the lives of hundreds of Jews dur… read more
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- childrens
- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
By: Nicholas Day
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
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- audiobook
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
10. We Dream of Space
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
It's January 1986. The launch of the Challenger is just weeks away, and Cash, Fitch, and Bird Nelso… read more
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- audiobook
11. The Night War
By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words com… read more
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- historical fiction
- audiobook
12. The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality
By: Glen Scrivener
4.50
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Is Christianity history? Or is Christian history the deepest explanation of the modern world?Today … read more
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13. Smaller Sister
By: Maggie Edkins Willis
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Maggie Edkins Willis's Smaller Sister is a debut middle grade graphic novel about body image, confi… read more
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- juvenile
14. Shouting at the Rain
By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt
4.14
Format: 6 pages, Audio CD
Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's … read more
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- childrens
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- young adult
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"So."-Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain
"the sun is always in the sky but sometimes you just can't see it"-Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain
"I'm lucky. When the waves are rolling in, my friends are the jetties."-Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain
"He was the one who told me a man is not made by his mistakes. He's made by what he does about them."-Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Shouting at the Rain
15. 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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16. What About Will
By: Ellen Hopkins
4.13
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkin's comes a new heartbreakingly tender middle … read more
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17. The Magical Imperfect
By: Chris Baron
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set against the backdrop of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake in a town of refugees who came to Ame… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
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- historical fiction
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18. Everything I Know About You
By: Barbara Dee
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Misfit Tally is forced to room with queen bee Ava on the seventh grade field trip to Washington, DC… read more
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19. The First Magnificent Summer
By: R.L. Toalson
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Judy Blume meets Barbara Dee in this tender and empowering middle grade novel told in journal entri… read more
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- young adult
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20. A Place to Belong
By: Cynthia Kadohata
4.06
Format: 405 pages, Paperback
A Japanese-American family, reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese internment camps, give… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- family
- japan
- juvenile
