Tortilla Sun
By: Jennifer Cervantes
4.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When twelve-year-old Izzy discovers a beat-up baseball marked with the words "Becausemagic" while u…
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1. In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
By: Kenneth C. Davis
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers—who fought for liberty and justice for all—wer… read more
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2. Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary
By: Jerdine Nolen , Shadra Strickland
3.73
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is 1852 in Alexandria, Virginia. Eliza's mother has been sent away and it is Abbey, the cook, wh… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
3. Lyddie
By: Katherine Paterson
2.62
Format: 224 pages,
When ten-year-old Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their fa… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
4. Elijah of Buxton
By: Christopher Paul Curtis
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Newbery Medalist and CSK Award winner Christopher Paul Curtis's debut middle-grade/young-YA novel f… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
5. Tortilla Sun
By: Jennifer Cervantes
4.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When twelve-year-old Izzy discovers a beat-up baseball marked with the words "Becausemagic" while u… read more
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- magical realism
- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- kids
- fantasy
6. Day of Tears
By: Julius Lester
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
On March 2 and 3, 1859, the largest auction of slaves in American history took place in Savannah, G… read more
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7. 26 Fairmount Avenue (26 Fairmount Avenue, #1)
By: Tomie dePaola
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
A Newbery Honor Book Tomie's family starts building their new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue in 1938,… read more
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8. How I Became a Ghost
By: Tim Tingle
4.31
Format: 517 pages, Hardcover
Told in the words of Isaac, a Choctaw boy who does not survive the Trail of Tears, HOW I BECAME A G… read more
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9. The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)
By: Louise Erdrich
4.04
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Inga… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
"The strong old woman was walking away, and in her step there was the sadness of parting with an old but dangerously foolish friend."-Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)
"Although she lived in town, Old Tallow was so isolated by the force and strangeness of her personality that she could have been surrounded by a huge dark forest. She had never had any children, and e…"-Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)
10. The Scarecrow and His Servant
By: Philip Pullman
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
One night there was a thunderstorm. A tattered scarecrow stood in the wind and rain, taking no noti… read more
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11. As Long as the Rivers Flow
By: Larry Loyie , Constance Brissenden , None
3.00
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction In the 1800s, the education of … read more
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12. Ban This Book
By: Alan Gratz
4.41
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
-Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Sta… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
"Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person"-Alan Gratz, Ban This Book
"She was disappointed, I could tell, and suddenly the only thing I wanted in the world was to please her."-Alan Gratz, Ban This Book
13. Riding Freedom
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan , Brian Selznick
3.91
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
A reissue of Pam Munoz Ryan's bestselling backlist with a distinctive new author treatment. In this… read more
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14. Jefferson's Sons
By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
4.25
Format: 131 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of Thomas Jefferson's slave children Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thom… read more
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15. Misty of Chincoteague (Misty, #1)
By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Amo… read more
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16. Skunk and Badger (Skunk and Badger, #1)
By: Amy Timberlake
4.06
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
No one wants a skunk.They are unwelcome on front stoops. They should not linger in Important Rock R… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
17. 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
"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
18. Midsummer's Mayhem
By: Rajani LaRocca
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Can Mimi undo the mayhem caused by her baking in this contemporary-fantasy retelling of Shakespeare… read more
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- magical realism
- childrens
- middle grade
- fiction
- fantasy
"The sun-dried tomatoes were robust and sweet and played well with the salty Parmesan. The oregano added a floral note, and the fennel made it energizing and playful."-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem
"If he were a baked treat, he'd be a seven-layer bar- the perfect combination of sweet and salty, exotic coconut and homey caramel, and supported by a good, strong, buttery shortbread crust."-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem
"Kiera reached into the paper bag and held out one of Vik's cupcakes. Even in the dim and musty hangout, it practically glowed with beauty, and the roses smelled intoxicating. Roses, for love of all t…"-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem
"A lime tart with pomegranate glaze." I put the tart on the counter. The crust was the perfect shade of golden brown, and as I cut into it, the bright red glaze contrasted beautifully with the pale gr…"-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem
19. Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story
By: Andrea L. Rogers
4.04
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Twelve-year-old Mary and her Cherokee family are forced out of their home in Georgia by U.S. soldie… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
20. Make It Scream, Make It Burn
By: Leslie Jamison
3.93
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of essays about obsession and longing from Leslie Jamison, the New York Times best… read more
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"I am human: nothing human is alien to me."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
"Every paradise is made possible by blindness."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
"Don't assume the contours of another person's heart. Don't assume its desires."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
"[...] one more definition of love: committing to a story you can't fully imagine when it begins."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
