The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition): An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice
By: Anthony Ray Hinton
4.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I wanted him to believe that if we had books on the row, it would keep the inmates quiet. But really I knew that it would set them free. If the guys had books, they could travel the world. They would get smarter and freer."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition): An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice
"I wanted him to believe that if we had books on the row, it would keep the inmates quiet. But really I knew that it would set them free. If the guys had books, they could travel the world. They would get smarter and freer."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition): An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice
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1. The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
By: Neal Bascomb
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final So… read more
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- nonfiction
- middle grade
- audiobook
2. How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
By: Sandra Uwiringiyimana , Abigail Pesta
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this powerful memoir, Sandra Uwiringyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, te… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"It's okay to express yourself. It doesn't mean you're weak"-Sandra Uwiringiyimana, How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
"I knew the sounds of war before I knew how to do a cartwheel."-Sandra Uwiringiyimana, How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
3. The Lost Library
By: Rebecca Stead
4.14
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
A little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a myst… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
"But aren’t “parents"-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library
"That delicious book smell, his heart said."-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library
"Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books."-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library
"Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!"-Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library
4. 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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- middle grade
- audiobook
"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
5. Swim Team
By: Johnnie Christmas
4.28
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Mana… read more
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- middle grade
6. 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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- middle grade
7. We Deserve Monuments
By: Jas Hammonds
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a … read more
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- audiobook
"Home to the richest soil on Earth. A Great Place to Grow!"-Jas Hammonds, We Deserve Monuments
8. Mascot
By: Charles Waters
4.02
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade n… read more
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- middle grade
9. 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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- middle grade
- audiobook
10. Tornado Brain
By: Cat Patrick
4.14
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
A neurodivergent 7th grader is determined to find her missing best friend before it's too late. … read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
11. The First State of Being
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed fo… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
12. 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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- middle grade
13. The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)
By: Kwame Alexander
4.32
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award win… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
"A family tie is like the river. It can bend, but it cannot break."-Kwame Alexander, The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)
14. 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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- middle grade
- audiobook
15. Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice
By: Bryan Stevenson
4.50
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy--soon to be a … read more
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- nonfiction
- middle grade
- memoir
- audiobook
"The power of just mercy is that it belongs to the undeserving. It's when mercy is least expected that it's most powerful."-Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice
"My work has taught me a vital lesson. Each of us is more than the worse thing we've done. I am persuaded that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice."-Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice
16. Louder Than Hunger
By: John Schu
4.55
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu explores anorexia—and self-expression as… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
17. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
By: Lara Love Hardin
4.46
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
18. Those Kids from Fawn Creek
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Every day in Fawn Creek, Louisiana, is exactly the same--until Orchid Mason arrives. This contempor… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
19. 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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- middle grade
- audiobook
"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
20. A Duet for Home
By: Karina Yan Glaser
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homel… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
21. The Kate in Between
By: Claire Swinarski
4.28
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A twelve-year-old girl must face herself, and the truth, after her participation in a bullying inci… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
22. 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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- middle grade
- audiobook
23. Stowaway (The Icarus Chronicles, #1)
By: John David Anderson
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first book in a coming-of-age sci-fi duology about Leo, a kid trying to navigate the galaxy in … read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
24. I Rise
By: Marie Arnold
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“A love letter to Harlem and hope. I Rise is smart and funny and full of heart.*” Fourteen-year-old… read more
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- audiobook
25. Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings
By: Reyna Grande
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
" "Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
26. Looking for Smoke
By: K.A. Cobell
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more
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- audiobook
27. 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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- middle grade
- audiobook
28. Malas
By: Marcela Fuentes
3.96
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more
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- audiobook
29. Come Home Safe
By: Brian G. Buckmire
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A normal day. Until two siblings are accused of crimes they didn’t commit. Come Home Safe explores … read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
30. The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition): An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice
By: Anthony Ray Hinton
4.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to… read more
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- memoir
- middle grade
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I wanted him to believe that if we had books on the row, it would keep the inmates quiet. But really I knew that it would set them free. If the guys had books, they could travel the world. They would…"-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition): An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice
31. Behind Her Lies (Elise Close, #1)
By: Molly Black
3.85
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
Celebrity therapist Elise Close is no stranger to families with skeletons in their closets.But when… read more
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