Flying Lessons & Other Stories
By: Matt de la Peña , Sherman Alexie , Soman Chainani , Walter Dean Myers , Grace Lin , Ellen Oh , Jacqueline Woodson , Kwame Alexander , Tim Federle , Tim Tingle , Meg Medina , Kelly J. Baptist
4.04
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
For the hardback, see ISBN13: 9781101934593. Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, fi…
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1. The Crossover
By: Kwame Alexander
4.24
Format: 245 pages, ebook
"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all t… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Basketball Rule #5 When you stop playing your game you've already lost."-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover
"He's no longer listening to music, but his tears are loud enough to dance to."-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover
"Basketball Rule #4 If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end."-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover
"Silence doesn’t mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them."-Kwame Alexander, The Crossover
2. Each Kindness
By: E.B. Lewis , Jacqueline Woodson
3.56
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Each kindness makes the world a little better Chloe and her friends won't play with the new girl, M… read more
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- cultural
- realistic fiction
- childrens
- fiction
3. Lift Off
By: Melissa de la Cruz , Lamar Giles , Daniel José Older , Gene Luen Yang , Malinda Lo , Walter Dean Myers , Nicola Yoon , Eric Gansworth , Jason Reynolds , Sara Farizan , Thien Pham , None
3.64
Format: 192 pages,
The young adult anthology, Lift Off, is scheduled for release in Summer 2018 and will be edited by … read more
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- anthologies
- young adult
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
4. 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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5. The Stars Beneath Our Feet
By: David Barclay Moore
4.48
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of his brother's death.… read more
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6. Flying Lessons & Other Stories
By: Matt de la Peña , Sherman Alexie , Soman Chainani , Walter Dean Myers , Grace Lin , Ellen Oh , Jacqueline Woodson , Kwame Alexander , Tim Federle , Tim Tingle , Meg Medina , Kelly J. Baptist
4.04
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
For the hardback, see ISBN13: 9781101934593. Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, fi… read more
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- cultural
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
7. 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
- audiobook
"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
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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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
9. Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
By: Pedro Martín
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy’s family and t… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
"It was like the driveway at Disneyland but with way more automatic weapons."-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
"I like to say that my stories are 100% true 90% of the time. My memory and my heart like to play tricks on each other. The results are what makes my stories."-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
10. Tree. Table. Book.
By: Lois Lowry
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
11. Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
By: Jason Reynolds
3.94
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a nove… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"Got it. Here's the thing. Kenzi here got a big heart. But that big heart happens to be in a small body. Now, I don't know about you, but I would hate for that heart to be broken because that body was…"-Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
"Difference: Then I think about Ms Broome's assignment. What could I be? What do I wish I could become to change the world? I think about telling Benni I might want to be wet cement to fill the cracks…"-Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
"A school bus is many things. A school bus is a substitute for a limousine. More class. A school bus is a classroom with a substitute teacher. A school bus is the students' version of a teachers' loun…"-Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
12. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
By: Dashka Slater
4.30
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more
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- audiobook
13. Eagle Drums
By: Nasugraq Rainey Hopson
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A magical realistic middle grade debut about the origin story of the Iñupiaq Messenger Feast, a Nat… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
- audiobook
14. Two Tribes
By: Emily Bowen Cohen
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In her poignant debut graphic novel inspired by her own life, Emily Bowen Cohen embraces the comple… read more
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- fiction
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
15. Finally Heard (Finally Seen #2)
By: Kelly Yang
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes the sequel to Finally Seen in which … read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
16. Mañanaland
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
4.08
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
Maximiliano Córdoba loves stories, especially the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeepe… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- audiobook
17. 500 Words or Less
By: Juleah del Rosario
3.48
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Nic Chen refuses to spend her senior year branded as the girl who cheated on her charismatic and lo… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
18. The Hero Next Door
By: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
3.78
Format: None pages, Audio CD
From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Stories, comes another … read more
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- cultural
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Grounded
By: Aisha Saeed
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Four kids meet at an airport for one unforgettable night in this middle-grade novel by four bestsel… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- contemporary
- audiobook
20. Return to Sender
By: Julia Alvarez
3.78
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family hires migrant Mexican workers to … read more
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- cultural
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
21. What the Fact?: Finding the Truth in All the Noise
By: Seema Yasmin
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed writer, journalist, and physician Dr. Seema Yasmin comes a “savvy, accessible, and c… read more
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- audiobook
