A Boy Is Not a Bird
By: Edeet Ravel
3.88
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A young boy named Natt finds his world overturned when his family is uprooted and exiled to Siberia…
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1. Amal Unbound
By: Aisha Saeed
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The compelling story of a girl’s fight to regain her life and dreams after being forced into indent… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
"The thing is- those books made my days bearable."-Aisha Saeed, Amal Unbound
"Regret, I was learning, was the sharpest knife there was."-Aisha Saeed, Amal Unbound
"If everyone decided nothing would change, nothing ever would."-Aisha Saeed, Amal Unbound
"You always have a choice. Making choices even when they scare you because you know it's the right thing to do - that's bravery."-Aisha Saeed, Amal Unbound
2. Between Shades of Gray
By: Ruta Sepetys
3.71
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she ge… read more
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- world war ii
- fiction
- young adult
- historical fiction
3. Once (Once, #1)
By: Morris Gleitzman
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
Onceby Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanag… read more
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- fiction
- childrens
- young adult
- historical fiction
4. A Place to Hang the Moon
By: Kate Albus
4.57
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
Set against the backdrop of World War II, Anna, Edmund, and William are evacuated from London to li… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
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- world war ii
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"The librarian chuckled. “I suppose there are rather a lot of orphan stories out there."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"Besides which, I really ought to send her a book instead. Though she’s not much of a reader."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"Fibs, you must know, are entirely acceptable when they serve the purpose of getting one to the library."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"It is often the case that, at times of great anxiety, when the diversion of a good story should seem most welcome, one is least equipped to focus one’s mind on reading."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
5. 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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- fiction
- middle grade
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6. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By: Kate Beaton
4.41
Format: 430 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more
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7. A First Time for Everything
By: Dan Santat
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkwa… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
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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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
9. Front Desk (Front Desk, #1)
By: Kelly Yang
4.38
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
"It's going to be okay. I'll make friends, and if I don't, I'll borrow books from the library."-Kelly Yang, Front Desk (Front Desk, #1)
"It was hard not to stare at Jason's mom, specifically the humongous diamond on her hand. I thought I might go blind."-Kelly Yang, Front Desk (Front Desk, #1)
"It was hard not to stare at Jjason's mom, specifically the humongous diamond on her hand. I thought I might go blind."-Kelly Yang, Front Desk (Front Desk, #1)
"At this point, my mom started crying. She let out a sob so thunderous, I wondered if my cousins in China could hear her."-Kelly Yang, Front Desk (Front Desk, #1)
10. The Last Cuentista
By: Donna Barba Higuera
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abu… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
"Suma's eyes are still closed, and I can't tell if she's trying to forget, or to remember. Maybe stories are there to help us do both. I know stories can't always have happy endings. But if there are …"-Donna Barba Higuera, The Last Cuentista
11. 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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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
12. Across the Desert
By: Dusti Bowling
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One girl sets out on a journey across the treacherous Arizona desert to rescue a young pilot strand… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
13. Key Player (Front Desk, #4)
By: Kelly Yang
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Mia Tang is going for the goal in the fourth Front Desk novel by New York Times bestselling author … read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
- historical fiction
14. The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane (Black Hollow Lane, #1)
By: Julia Nobel
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Emmy's dad disappeared years ago, and with her mother too busy to parent, she's shipped off to Well… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
15. Ebb and Flow
By: Heather Smith
4.18
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
One summer,after a long plane rideand a rotten bad yearI went to Grandma Jo's.It was my mother's id… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
"Good. then I will stay here until I get stranded. The water will get higher and higher and no one will be able to reach me, to save me, and I will deserve it. I will deserve to be stranded on an isla…"-Heather Smith, Ebb and Flow
16. Starfish
By: Lisa Fipps
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this debut novel-in-verse. Eve… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
"I'm a starfish, taking p all the room I want."-Lisa Fipps, Starfish
"I'm a starfish, taking up all the room I want."-Lisa Fipps, Starfish
"DNA doesn't make you family. Love does. Actions do."-Lisa Fipps, Starfish
"No matter what others say or do, embrace what makes you, you."-Lisa Fipps, Starfish
17. The Jigsaw Puzzle King
By: Gina McMurchy-Barber
4.06
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
2021 Silver Birch Fiction Award ― Winner • 2022 Diamond Willow Award ― Shortlisted • 2022 Rocky Mou… read more
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- middle grade
- chapter books
- childrens
- fiction
"Every one of us is like the pieces of a puzzle. Each one unique and with our own special place where only we can fit, and without every one of us, the picture wouldn’t be complete."-Gina McMurchy-Barber, The Jigsaw Puzzle King
18. 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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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel
By: Jason Reynolds
4.31
Format: 208 pages, None
Jason Reynolds's Newbery Honor, Printz Honor, and Coretta Scott King Honor–winning, #1 New York Tim… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
20. The Light in Hidden Places
By: Sharon Cameron
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by … read more
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- world war ii
- fiction
- young adult
- historical fiction
21. They Went Left
By: Monica Hesse
4.24
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over,… read more
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- world war ii
- fiction
- young adult
- historical fiction
"Choose to love."-Monica Hesse, They Went Left
"Our minds are nothing. That's the biggest nothing, the reason we are still in the hospital. Our minds are soft. Confused."-Monica Hesse, They Went Left
22. Mixed Up
By: Gordon Korman
3.95
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Restart , the story of two boys who are losing their memories... to each other. … read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
23. The Bridge Home
By: Padma Venkatraman
4.27
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
When Viji and her sister, Rukku, whose developmental disability makes her overly trusting and vulne… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
"If I wanted a better future, I needed to change the life we had .Now."-Padma Venkatraman, The Bridge Home
24. Surprisingly Sarah (Emmie & Friends #7)
By: Terri Libenson
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Two choices, two storylines — one surprise ending! Will Sarah be brave enough to ask out her crush … read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
25. Alice Fleck's Recipes for Disaster
By: Rachelle Delaney
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
When Alice agreed to appear in a reality cooking show with her father, she had no idea she'd find h… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
26. My Life in the Fish Tank
By: Barbara Dee
4.21
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
From the acclaimed author of Maybe He Just Likes You and Halfway Normal comes a “compassionate…touc… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
27. Dog Driven
By: Terry Lynn Johnson
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
From the author of Ice Dogs comes a riveting adventure about a musher who sets out to prove her imp… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
28. Music for Tigers
By: Michelle Kadarusman
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Shipped halfway around the world to spend the summer with her mom’s eccentric Australian relatives,… read more
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- middle grade
- chapter books
- childrens
- fiction
29. The Ghost Collector
By: Allison Mills
3.83
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Ghosts aren’t meant to stick around forever… Shelly and her grandmother catch ghosts. In their h… read more
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- middle grade
- fiction
"Little Shell,"-Allison Mills, The Ghost Collector
30. Harvey Comes Home
By: Colleen Nelson
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A dog’s world is a world of scents, of adventure. When a runaway West Highland Terrier named Harvey… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
31. A Boy Is Not a Bird
By: Edeet Ravel
3.88
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A young boy named Natt finds his world overturned when his family is uprooted and exiled to Siberia… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
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