Tani's New Home: A Refugee Finds Hope and Kindness in America
By: Tanitoluwa Adewumi
4.19
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Tani Adewumi's true story of immigrating to America, developing his talent for chess, and finding a…
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1. The Other Side
By: E.B. Lewis , Jacqueline Woodson
4.51
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of t… read more
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"Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down."-E.B. Lewis, The Other Side
2. The Journey
By: Francesca Sanna
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
With haunting echoes of the current refugee crisis this beautifully illustrated book explores the u… read more
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3. Fever 1793
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
3.38
Format: None pages,
It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of feve… read more
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4. A Different Pond
By: Bao Phi , Thi Bui
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed poet Bao Phi delivers a powerful, honest glimpse into a relationship between father and s… read more
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5. My Name Is Sangoel
By: Karen Lynn Williams , Catherine Stock , None
2.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Sangoel is a refugee. Leaving behind his homeland of Sudan, where his father died in the war, he ha… read more
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6. Where Butterflies Fill the Sky
By: Zahra Marwan
3.86
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
An evocative picture book debut that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait t… read more
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7. The Smart Cookie (The Food Group #5)
By: Jory John
4.31
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
This cookie has never felt like a smart cookie no matter how hard she tries, especially in comparis… read more
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8. 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
9. All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
By: Christina Soontornvat
4.51
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
An account of the amazing Thai cave rescue told in a you-are-there style that blends suspense, scie… read more
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10. Swiped
By: L.M. Chilton
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The mystifying world of online dating gets a terrifying, clever, and darkly hilarious twist in this… read more
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11. 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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12. I Talk Like a River
By: Jordan Scott
4.48
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Um retrato sensível do isolamento e do estigma sentido por uma criança com dificuldades de fala. … read more
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13. Abdul's Story
By: Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
4.41
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A 2022 New York Public Library Best Book for Kids! A little boy who loves storytelling but strug… read more
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14. The Breakup Tour
By: Emily Wibberley
3.16
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A rising-star musician has a second chance at love with an old flame she remembers all too well in … read more
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15. The Ogress and the Orphans
By: Kelly Barnhill
4.28
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. … read more
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"The antidote to anger is tenderness, and the antidote to discord is reconciliation."-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"Life is long, after all. And over time, the paths we take tend to intertwine and overlap."-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"Books are funny things. The ideas and knowledge contained inside their pages have mass and velocity and gravity. They bend both space and time. They have minds of their own. There is a power in a boo…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
"So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twi…"-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans
16. Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away
By: Meg Medina
4.37
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
From Newbery Medalist Meg Medina comes the bittersweet story of two girls who will always be each o… read more
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17. Right on Cue
By: Falon Ballard
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the beloved author of Just My Type and Lease on Love comes a new romantic comedy in which a fo… read more
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18. The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
By: Rita Lorraine Hubbard
4.60
Format: 34 pages, Hardcover
In 1848, Mary Walker was born into slavery. At age 15, she was freed, and by age 20, she was marrie… read more
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"Mary decided that flying was a lot like reading: they both made a body feel free as a bird."-Rita Lorraine Hubbard, The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
19. Sakamoto's Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory
By: Julie Abery
4.23
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
The little-known story of a dedicated teacher who coached Hawaiian swimmers all the way to the Olym… read more
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20. The Second Chance Year
By: Melissa Wiesner
3.99
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this unforgettable story full of charm, wit—and just a bit of magic—a woman down on her luck is … read more
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"Nothing that starts with ‘come on, it will be fun’ is ever fun."-Melissa Wiesner, The Second Chance Year
"I click over to Instagram, the only thing that can make me feel worse."-Melissa Wiesner, The Second Chance Year
21. Ten Beautiful Things
By: Molly Beth Griffin
4.41
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A heartfelt story of changing perspectives, set in the Midwest. Ten Beautiful Things gently explore… read more
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22. Just Help!: How to Build a Better World
By: Sonia Sotomayor
4.09
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Just Ask! comes a fun and meaningful story abou… read more
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23. Honey
By: Isabel Banta
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in… read more
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"The truth is my dad was always singing […]"-Isabel Banta, Honey
"I wasn’t good enough—what a mortifying thing to discover about yourself."-Isabel Banta, Honey
"[…] she remains enigmatic, unbreachable; she unlocks herself only for certain people."-Isabel Banta, Honey
"Mike wants me to say I’m a normal girl. But I’m not, I never was. I always felt I had to prove I was better."-Isabel Banta, Honey
24. Triple Sec
By: T.J. Alexander
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A jaded bartender is wooed by a charmingly quirky couple in this fresh and sizzling polyamorous rom… read more
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25. Lubna and Pebble
By: Wendy Meddour
4.47
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
In an unforgettable story that subtly addresses the refugee crisis, a young girl must decide if fri… read more
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26. The Most Beautiful Thing
By: Kao Kalia Yang
4.26
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A warmhearted and tender true story about a young girl finding beauty where she never thought to lo… read more
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27. What's New, Daniel?
By: Micha Archer
4.27
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Caldecott Honor winner Micha Archer’s gloriously detailed collages invite readers into Daniel’s blo… read more
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28. Tani's New Home: A Refugee Finds Hope and Kindness in America
By: Tanitoluwa Adewumi
4.19
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Tani Adewumi's true story of immigrating to America, developing his talent for chess, and finding a… read more
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- chess
29. Where Is Poppy?
By: Caroline Kusin Pritchard
4.00
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
In this heartwarming Passover story, a young Jewish child learns to work through grief with the hel… read more
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30. Sourgrass
By: Hope Lim
4.17
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
What do you do when your best friend moves away? This hopeful and resonant book filled with soft, v… read more
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31. Marwan's Journey
By: Patricia de Arias
3.99
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
One night they came... The darkness grew colder, deeper, darker, and swallowed up everything... … read more
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