Santiago's Road Home
By: Alexandra Diaz
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young boy gets detained by ICE while crossing the border from Mexico to the United States in this…
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1. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
By: Pablo Cartaya
3.91
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Save the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Z… read more
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- audiobook
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2. The Shape of Thunder
By: Jasmine Warga
4.17
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year. Despite living next door to each other,… read more
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"I just want to be okay. I don't want to feel okay. I want to be okay."-Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder
"The more things you know, the less likely you are to be taken by surprise."-Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder
"Whenever I get a bad grade, I always try to explain to Mom that I did read the book. And just because I can't remember what color shirt the character was wearing in page six doesn't mean that I didn'…"-Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder
3. Freewater
By: Amina Luqman-Dawson
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they … read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
- middle grade
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- fiction
- historical fiction
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"Lord only knows how many of us they keep from running. How many of us stay in these hateful places out of love. I used to think it was from scaring us - beating, cutting, or whipping us that did it. …"-Amina Luqman-Dawson, Freewater
4. 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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5. 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)
6. 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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- middle grade
- childrens
- 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
7. Abuela, Don't Forget Me
By: Rex Ogle
4.50
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In his memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle’s abuela features as a source of love and support. In this compa… read more
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- middle grade
- family
- audiobook
"These are my words! They matter! Hit me all you want. I will write. These are my words. They do matter. And she did hit me, all she wanted. But I wrote. And I still write. I will always write. No one…"-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me
"She may forget. And one day, I may forget too. But for now, the memories are captured, like insects in amber, ready to survive for millions of years. My memories...are written in words and verses and…"-Rex Ogle, Abuela, Don't Forget Me
8. The Fort
By: Gordon Korman
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of RESTART, the story of a middle-school "band of brothers" -- five fri… read more
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9. Closer to Nowhere
By: Ellen Hopkins
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A novel in verse about coming to terms with indelible truths of family and belonging. For the mo… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- family
"Every kid deserves a friend."-Ellen Hopkins, Closer to Nowhere
"Comprehension means more than word count."-Ellen Hopkins, Closer to Nowhere
"Still, what can it hurt to maybe have a little extra luck on your side?"-Ellen Hopkins, Closer to Nowhere
"That home in the distance, the one I could never reach? Today, I’m much closer to it than I am to nowhere."-Ellen Hopkins, Closer to Nowhere
10. The Canyon's Edge
By: Dusti Bowling
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A novel in verse about a young girl's struggle for survival after a climbing trip with her father g… read more
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11. Fighting Words
By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
4.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had … read more
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"Broken bones take a long time to heal. Why shouldn't brains?"-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Fighting Words
"Sometimes you've got a story you need to find the courage to tell."-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Fighting Words
"This is to remind me of the best day of my life." She looks down at me. For a wonder, she smiles back. "When was that?" she asks. "Tomorrow," I say."-Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Fighting Words
12. 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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- audiobook
"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
13. Lines of Courage
By: Jennifer A. Nielsen
4.30
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
The stories of five kids living through World War I, each of whom holds the key to the others' futu… read more
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- audiobook
14. Harbor Me
By: Jacqueline Woodson
4.21
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming … read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
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- family
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15. Charlie Thorne and the Royal Society (Charlie Thorn, #4)
By: Stuart Gibbs
4.44
Format: None pages, Audiobook
In the fourth installment of the New York Times bestselling Charlie Thorne series—which #1 New York… read more
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- middle grade
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- fiction
- audiobook
16. Saints of the Household
By: Ari Tison
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--tol… read more
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17. Royal Scandal (Royal Blood, #2)
By: Aimee Carter
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The second book in the Royal Blood series about an American girl who threatens the royal family by … read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- audiobook
18. 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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- young adult
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- audiobook
19. The Brightwood Code
By: Monica Hesse
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Seven months ago Edda was on the World War I front lines as one of two hundred “Hello Girls,” femal… read more
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- historical fiction
20. 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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- young adult
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- juvenile
21. 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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22. The In-Between
By: Rebecca Ansari
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Cooper is lost. Ever since his father left their family three years ago, he has become distant from… read more
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- middle grade
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23. Dinged
By: Tommy Greenwald
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A star football player watches his father deteriorate from injuries he suffered playing the very sa… read more
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- middle grade
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- audiobook
24. 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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25. All He Knew
By: Helen Frost
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"A novel in verse about a young deaf boy during World War II, the sister who loves him, and the con… read more
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- young adult
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26. The Stitchers (Fright Watch, #1)
By: Lorien Lawrence
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The start of a spine-chilling new horror series about the eerie happenings in a small town Someth… read more
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27. 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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28. Roll with It
By: Jamie Sumner
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of an irrepressible girl with cerebral palsy whose life takes an unexpected turn when she… read more
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- childrens
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29. The Brave
By: James Bird
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Brave is about a boy with an OCD issue and his move to a reservation to live with his biologica… read more
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30. Santiago's Road Home
By: Alexandra Diaz
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A young boy gets detained by ICE while crossing the border from Mexico to the United States in this… read more
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- juvenile
31. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)
By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more
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- audiobook
