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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Victoria loves everything about her home in Cuba. The beautiful land, the delicious food, her best friend and cousin, Jackie, and her big, loving family. But it's 1960 in Cuba, and as the political situation grows more and more dangerous, Victoria, her parents, and her two younger siblings are forced to seek refuge in America with nothing more than two changes of clothes and five dollars. Worse, they're forced to leave the rest of their family, including...
2) Remember us
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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2023 Winter Kit Reading List - Middle School
Children's New Books: November 2023 Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's New Books: November 2023 Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
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"It seems like Sage's whole world is on fire the summer before she starts seventh grade. As house after house burns down, her Bushwick neighborhood gets referred to as "The Matchbox" in the local newspaper. And while Sage prefers to spend her time shooting hoops with the guys, she's also still trying to figure out her place inside the circle of girls she's known since childhood. A group that each day feels further and further away from her. But it's...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"As a twelve-year-old boy growing up in South Vietnam, Thọ has heard of other boys disappearing from time to time, smuggled out of the country so they wouldn't have to be conscripted into the Communist army. But Thọ is too young to worry about any of that. He spends his afternoons cricket fighting and playing soccer with his friends. Until one day, he finds out that his parents have arranged for him to leave the country -- alone. What follows...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Brigit, a girl with selkie heritage, embarks on a perilous journey with newcomer Peter to confront the Great Selkie in Sule Skerrie in order to prevent a curse that threatens her village's safety.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Book Awards: 2024 Winners and Honors
Children's New Books: March 2024 Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Children's Book Awards: 2024 Winners and Honors
Children's New Books: March 2024 Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Description
A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
Author
Series
Operation kinderspion volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible--become a British spy"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
A girl channels her grief and pain into love and activism in this heartbreaking, heart-mending novel of family, friendship, and community. Iris tries to act normal at school, going through the motions and joking around with her friends. But nothing is normal, and sometimes it feels like she'll never laugh again. How can she, when her dad is dying of a virus that's off-limits to talk about? When she knows that soon all she'll have left of her kind,...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse keepers -- and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking"--
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Almost-eleven-year-old Josephine is NOT pleased to be moving into the Happy World trailer park over the summer of 1974. She misses her beautiful bedroom with ballerinas on the wall and her pretty, well-dressed friends. Happy World isn't happy. It's dingy and depressing! Nothing like the world that headstrong Josephine wants for herself. But when Josephine learns that her would-be next door neighbor in Happy World was kidnapped months ago, she develops...
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America! But the endeavor comes at a cost: The missionaries' plan...
Author
Series
I survived volume 23
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then the most powerful earthquake in American history--the Good...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul doesn't like change. She's not ready to start middle school and leave the comforts of childhood behind. Most of all, Pandita doesn't want to feel like she's leaving her mother, who died a few years ago, behind. After a falling out with her best friend, Pandita is planning to spend most of her summer break reading and writing in her favorite secret space: the abandoned but majestic mansion across the street....
13) Rewind
Author
Publisher
Philomel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"As far as twelve-year-old McKinley O'Dair is concerned, the best thing about living in Gap Bend, Pennsylvania, is the Time Hop--the giant party the town throws every June to celebrate a single year in history. That one day is enough to make the few things that aren't so fantastic about McKinley's life--like her crabby homeroom teacher or her super-scheduled father--worth suffering through. And when McKinley learns that this year's theme is 1993,...
Author
Series
Mysteries of trash and treasure volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
"Colin and Nevaeh are great at finding things. After all, they found each other and became best friends--even though their parents are business rivals. They also found hidden boxes of secret letters, which led them to unravel mysteries about kids from the 1970s. But when they started Mystery Solvers Inc., they didn't expect to be asked to find a ghost. Ree recruits them to investigate a series of old, spooky photos left behind in her family's new...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Stevie's life is fluctuating rapidly. She's starting over in a brand new middle school. Quiet and observant, it's hard for her to make friends. Plus, her mind is too occupied. The tension in her home is building as her parents' arguments are becoming more frequent. To top it all off, Stevie's older cousin Naomi is coming to live with the family in an attempt to keep her from a "bad" crowd--The Black Panthers. Stevie agrees to keep Naomi's secrets....
16) Rivka's presents
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"A little Jewish girl living on the Lower East Side during the flu pandemic of 1918 can't start school because her father is sick, so she makes a trade with her neighbors: chores for lessons"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"The first American pilots to fight in World War I flew for the French military. France created a squadron of volunteer Americans called the Lafayette Escadrille (named after the great Marquis de Lafayette). Follow this squadron on their high-flying adventures: How they got into the French military. How they learned to fly. How they fought--and died. And how these American pilots would go down in history with other legendary flying aces, like the...
Author
Series
Mary Pope Osborne's Magic tree house volume 6
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Retells, in graphic novel form, the tale of eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister, Annie, who are whisked away to the Amazon rainforest for a high-stakes adventure"--
20) Last flight
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Children's New Books: April 2024 Picture & Cardboard Books
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Month Picture Books
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Month Picture Books
Description
"On April 24, 1975 the last flight out of Saigon, Vietnam carried over 400 people to the United States, six days before Saigon's surrender to the North Vietnamese Army. Kristen Giang was a little girl, on that flight with family, and here in this story she shares all the emotions of the decision to flee from the perspective of someone eight years old; Playing a game of space-explorers to protect herself and her sister's eyes from tear gas; sneaking...
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