Wreck at Ada's Reef (The Swallowtail Legacy #1)
By: Michael D. Beil
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Punctuated with transcripts, letters, maps, black-and-white illustrations and more, Wreck at Ada's …
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1. The Last Mapmaker
By: Christina Soontornvat
4.15
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. As assistant to Mangkon’s most celeb… read more
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"I couldn't see it then, but I could see it now. I opened my eyes, releasing another stream of tears. I had been trying so hard to run from my past. But the past was like mottlefish ink. Even if it fa…"-Christina Soontornvat, The Last Mapmaker
2. The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
By: Beth Lincoln
4.06
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
In her family, Shenanigan Swift has always been synonymous with mischief. As Arch-Aunt Schadenfreud… read more
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"According to Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude, a funeral ought to look like a wedding upside down."-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
"A funeral is supposed to be a way to say goodbye. You look inside yourself and find a place to put your grief, not somewhere hidden, not the top shelf or the back of a cupboard, but maybe by a window…"-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
"A collective term is a special name given to a group of animals, like a herd of cows. Many animals have their own strange terms. She knew the collective term for starlings was a murmuration, and the …"-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
"Family was exhausting, and complicated, and everyone was their own person, which meant you had just as much chance of getting along with them as you did any stranger off the street. Just sharing bloo…"-Beth Lincoln, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels
3. 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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"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
4. 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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5. My Aunt Is a Monster
By: Reimena Yee
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Curses! Adventures! And drama! Oh my! Safia might not be able to see the world, but that doesn't me… read more
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"And I'll have to stay home. For another nine or ten years or who knows how long.. Till I'm old enough to move out and travel on my own. It's just "sigh" I don't know if I can wait that long. And I do…"-Reimena Yee, My Aunt Is a Monster
"Aunty Whimsy: I've visited forests under the sea, savored cotton candy pink tea, and met the pope of a very small country! And these are only some of the many special things our world has to offer--i…"-Reimena Yee, My Aunt Is a Monster
6. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration
By: Elizabeth Partridge
4.53
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration c… read more
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- middle grade
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7. Manatee Summer
By: Evan Griffith
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish th… read more
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8. No Matter the Distance
By: Cindy Baldwin
4.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An unexpected animal companion helps a girl with cystic fibrosis learn to write her own story in th… read more
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9. Enemies in the Orchard
By: Dana VanderLugt
4.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Set against the backdrop of WWII, this achingly beautiful middle grade novel in verse based on Amer… read more
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"I may be blemished but I am not rotten to the core."-Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard
"If I didn’t think too hard or ask too many questions, it was easy. p. 63"-Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard
"Like the day I was captured, I want to raise my arms, show this woman and this girl my empty hands. p. 49"-Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard
"Avoiding the truth, avoiding the responsibility that comes with admitting the truth, can seem a lot easier than being brave."-Dana VanderLugt, Enemies in the Orchard
10. Different Kinds of Fruit
By: Kyle Lukoff
4.08
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
In this funny and hugely heartfelt novel from a Stonewall Award winner, a sixth-grader’s life is tu… read more
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11. Dream, Annie, Dream
By: Waka T. Brown
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese Ameri… read more
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12. 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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"The goal isn't perfection- the goal is making something new. (pg. 18)"-Gillian McDunn, Honestly Elliott
13. The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
By: Sally J. Pla
4.57
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Neurodivergent Maudie is ready to spend an amazing summer with her dad, but will she find the coura… read more
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14. Falling Short
By: Ernesto Cisneros
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A novel about two best friends who must rely on each other in unexpected ways. Isaac and Marco a… read more
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15. The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow (Milkweed Meadow #1)
By: Elaine Dimopoulos
4.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This timeless early middle-grade adventure about friendship and community will charm animal-loving … read more
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16. 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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17. Air
By: Monica Roe
4.24
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An action-packed, empowering middle grade novel about a girl who has to speak up when her wheelchai… read more
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18. The Language of Seabirds
By: Will Taylor
4.22
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A sweet, tender middle-grade story of two boys finding first love with each other over a seaside su… read more
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19. The Sheep, the Rooster, and the Duck
By: Matt Phelan
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Intoxicating . . . it will be hard for young readers to put down.” — New York Times Book Review “A… read more
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20. Wreck at Ada's Reef (The Swallowtail Legacy #1)
By: Michael D. Beil
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Punctuated with transcripts, letters, maps, black-and-white illustrations and more, Wreck at Ada's … read more
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21. Undercover Latina
By: Aya de León
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Latina teen spy goes undercover as a white girl to stop a white supremacist terrorist plot in a f… read more
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