Olive's Ocean
By: Kevin Henkes
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sometimes life can change in an instant Martha Boyle and Olive Barstow could have been friends, but…
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1. Penny from Heaven
By: Jennifer L. Holm
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
It’s1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
"My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the be…"-Jennifer L. Holm, Penny from Heaven
2. After Tupac and D Foster
By: Jacqueline Woodson
3.80
Format: 151 pages, Hardcover
D Foster showed up a few months before Tupac got shot that first time and left us the summer before… read more
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- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
3. The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
By: Margarita Engle
3.95
Format: 169 pages, Hardcover
It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rou… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
"Hatred must be a hard thing to learn."-Margarita Engle, The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
"Slavery all day, and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!"-Margarita Engle, The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
"Can it be true that freedom only exists when it is a treasure, shared by all?"-Margarita Engle, The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
"If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our minds left behind in battle."-Margarita Engle, The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
4. Our Only May Amelia (May Amelia, #1)
By: Jennifer L. Holm
4.23
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
It isn't easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it's particularly hard when y… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
5. Afternoon of the Elves
By: Janet Taylor Lisle
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
Hillary doesn't believe all the mean things she hears about Sara-Kate. Sure, she wears weird clothe… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
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7. Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)
By: Polly Horvath
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the small Canadian town of Coal Harbour, in a quaint restaurant called The Girl on the Red Swing… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
"At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists."-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)
"There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay."-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)
"I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I'm not marrying at all."-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)
"You can be sunk low or as a skunk and still have a joy in your heart. Joy lives like one of those spinning things---a gyroscope in your heart. It doesn't seem to have any connection to circumstance, …"-Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)
8. Olive's Ocean
By: Kevin Henkes
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sometimes life can change in an instant Martha Boyle and Olive Barstow could have been friends, but… read more
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- childrens
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- banned books
- fiction
9. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
By: Jim Murphy
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an … read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
10. Silent to the Bone
By: E.L. Konigsburg
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Connor is sure his best friend, Branwell, couldn't have hurt Branwell's baby half sister, Nikki. Bu… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
11. A Chair for My Mother
By: Vera B. Williams
4.22
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
After their home is destroyed by a fire, Rosa, her mother and grandmother save their coins to buy a… read more
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- realistic fiction
- childrens
- fiction
12. The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #2)
By: Jacqueline Kelly
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Callie Vee, Travis, Granddaddy, and the whole Tate clan are back in this charming follow-up to Newb… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
13. Lost in the Sun
By: Lisa Graff
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Everyone says that middle school is awful, but Trent knows nothing could be worse than the year he … read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
14. Criss Cross
By: Lynne Rae Perkins
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
She wished something would happen. Something good. To her. Looking at the bright, fuzzy picture in … read more
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15. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
By: Gary D. Schmidt
3.91
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
Not only is Turner Buckminster the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, he is shunned for… read more
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- childrens
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
"Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches."-Gary D. Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
"Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow i…"-Gary D. Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
16. The Summer of the Swans
By: Betsy Byars
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Sometimes you don't know what you love--until you almost lose it. Sara's fourteenth summer was turn… read more
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17. Whittington
By: None , Alan Armstrong
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Newbery Medal Honor Title (2006) This winning tale introduces Whittington, a roughneck Tom who a… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
18. Pictures of Hollis Woods
By: Patricia Reilly Giff
4.03
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Hollis Woods is the place where a baby was abandoned is the baby's name is an artist is… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
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"There are some people who don't even know enough to fall in love with the water."-Patricia Reilly Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods
"Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it,…"-Patricia Reilly Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods
19. Under the Blood-Red Sun
By: Graham Salisbury
3.82
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Tomi was born in Hawaii. His grandfather and parents were born in Japan, and came to America to esc… read more
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20. When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
By: Kimberly Willis Holt
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Nothing ever happens in Toby's small Texas town. Nothing much until this summer that's full of big … read more
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21. On My Honor
By: Marion Dane Bauer
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Joel dares his best friend, Tony, to a swimming race in a dangerous river. Both boys jump in, but w… read more
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