Merci Suárez Changes Gears
By: Meg Medina
4.19
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, famil…
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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
- family
"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. Dead End in Norvelt
By: Jack Gantos
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Dead End in Norveltis the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to chil… read more
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- childrens
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3. 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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4. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
By: Nancy Willard , Alice Provensen , Martin Provensen
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by William Blake'sSongs of Innocenceand Songs of Experience, this delightful collection of… read more
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5. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
By: Robert Byrd , Laura Amy Schlitz
3.28
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
Step back to medieval 1255 England and meet 22 villagers, illustrated in pen and ink, inspired by t… read more
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6. Hello, Universe
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
3.49
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and… read more
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7. The Higher Power of Lucky (The Hard Pan Trilogy, #1)
By: Susan Patron
4.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Believing that her French guardian is about to abandon her to an orphanage in the city, ten-year-ol… read more
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8. Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
By: Dhan Gopal Mukerji , Boris Artzybasheff
4.22
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Writing out of his own experience as a boy in India, Dhan Gopal Mukerji tells how Gay Neck's master… read more
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9. Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
By: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis , William Low
4.33
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
A classic Newbery Award winner, with an introduction by Katherine Paterson and new illustrations Wh… read more
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10. The View from Saturday
By: E.L. Konigsburg
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
How has Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But we… read more
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12. At the Bottom of the World (Jack and the Geniuses, #1)
By: Gregory Mone , Bill Nye , Nicholas Iluzada
3.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Timesbestselling authors Bill Nye the Science Guy and Gregory Mone take middle-grade reade… read more
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13. New Kid (New Kid, #1)
By: Jerry Craft
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit … read more
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- contemporary
14. Freewater
By: Amina Luqman-Dawson
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they … read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
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- juvenile
"Lord only knows how many of us they keep from running. How many of us stay in these hateful places out of love. I used to think it was from scaring us - beating, cutting, or whipping us that did it. …"-Amina Luqman-Dawson, Freewater
15. 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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- childrens
- family
"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
16. 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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"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
17. When You Trap a Tiger
By: Tae Keller
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
Newbery Medal Winner (2021) Some stories refuse to stay bottled up... When Lily and her famil… read more
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"I am a girl who sees invisible things, but I am not invisible."-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger
"Does it get easier? Does the sadness go away? The sadness fades, yeah. Eventually. But the missing ... I don't know if that ever does."-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger
"If you put things off for later, you'll never do them. They'll become harder and scarier, and one day you'll realize you've run out of time."-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger
"It's hard to breathe. I know now: The moment when everything really falls apart--it's not during the big explosion. It's in the quiet after. And the feeling is not a shattering. Not quite"-Tae Keller, When You Trap a Tiger
18. Merci Suárez Changes Gears
By: Meg Medina
4.19
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, famil… read more
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- childrens
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- juvenile
19. Chester Keene Cracks the Code
By: Kekla Magoon
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Cracking the code isn't all it's cracked up to be in this scavenger hunt adventure from a Coretta S… read more
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20. Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero
By: Saadia Faruqi
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Yusuf Azeem has spent all his life in the small town of Frey, Texas—and nearly that long waiting fo… read more
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21. Shine On, Luz Véliz!
By: Rebecca Balcárcel
4.28
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful coming-of-age story for fans of Front Desk and Merci Suárez Changes Gears , this book c… read more
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"The self is not discovered, but created."-Rebecca Balcárcel, Shine On, Luz Véliz!
