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When Clouds Touch Us
Thanhhà Lai - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by the author's own childhood, this stunning novel in verse, sequel to the award-winning #1 bestseller Inside Out and Back Again, picks up two years after Hà and her family arrive in Alabama as refugees from the Việt Nam War.Hà and her family have worked hard to make a life... |
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Clouds over California
Karyn Parsons - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich meets One Crazy Summer in this moving and heartfelt novel about how one girl's family and friendships are turned upside down, just as the world is changing in 1970s Los Angeles - from the author of the highly acclaimed How High the Moon.. Stevie's... |
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The Journal of Anxious Izzy Parker
Alma Fullerton - Second Story Press
Format: Paperback
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Eight-year-old Izzy Parker's biggest problem is feeling anxious and afraid. Her mom's decision to move them across the country to Prince Edward Island didn't help. Izzy worries she will say the wrong thing or laugh at the wrong time, and none of the kids will want to be her friend.... |
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Simon Sort of Says
Erin Bow - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Kate DiCamillo and Jack Gantos, a hilarious, wrenching, hopeful novel about finding your friends, healing your heart, and speaking your truth.Simon O'Keeffe's biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament. Or maybe the alpaca... |
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Not Quite a Ghost
Anne Ursu - Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy comes an unforgettable and deeply personal story of the ghosts that surround us - and the ones we carry inside.The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among... |
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The Year I Flew Away
Marie Arnold
Format: Hardcover
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It's 1985 and ten-year-old Gabrielle is excited to be moving from Haiti to America. Unfortunately, her parents won't be able to join her yet and she'll be living in a place called Brooklyn, New York, with relatives she has never met. She promises her parents that she will behave,... |
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The House That Wasn't There
Elana K. Arnold
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning author Elana K. Arnold returns with an unforgettable story of the strange, wondrous threads that run between all of us, whether we know they're there or not. Alder has always lived in his cozy little house in Southern California. And for as long as he can remember, the old,... |
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The Turtle of Michigan
Naomi Shihab Nye - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover
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Aref is excited for his journey to reunite with his father in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Aref makes a friend on an airplane, wonders what Michigan will be like, and starts school in the United States. While he does miss his grandfather, his Sidi, Aref knows that his home in Oman will always be waiting... |
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A Song Called Home
Sara Zarr - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning author Sara Zarr comes a story of the small moments that show us who we are, and how family is not just something you're part of, but something you make.Lou and her family don't have much, but for Lou it's enough. Mom. Her sister, Casey. Their apartment in the city.... |
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Long Lost
Jacqueline West - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover
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Once there were two sisters who did everything together. But only one of them disappeared. New York Times-bestselling author Jacqueline West's Long Lost is an atmospheric, eerie mystery brimming with suspense. Fans of Katherine Arden's Small Spaces and Victoria Schwab's City... |
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The Many Meanings of Meilan
Andrea Wang - Kokila
Format: Hardcover
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Meilan Hua's world is made up of a few key ingredients: her family's beloved matriarch, Nai Nai; the bakery her parents, aunts, and uncles own and run in Boston's Chinatown; and her favorite Chinese fairy tales. After Nai Nai passes, the family has a falling-out that sends Meilan,... |
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The International House of Dereliction
Jacqueline Davies
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In this not-so-scary ghost story from Jacqueline Davies, bestselling author of the Lemonade War series, quirky, tool-wielding Alice Cannoli-Potchnik begins to repair the dilapidated mansion next door - only to discover the old house is home to ghosts, and they need mending, too!Ho |
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Leaving Lymon
Lesa Cline-Ransome - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover
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A companion novel to Finding Langston, recipient of a Coretta Scott King Writing Honor and winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Behind every bad boy is a story worth hearing and at least one chance for redemption. It's 1946 and Lymon, uprooted from his life in the Deep... |
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Kodi
Jared Cullum - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback
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The gorgeous story of two friends separated by everything in the world -- except love. Readers and animal-lovers of every age will want to relive this journey over and over again.Katya and her Meema are spending another summer at their cottage in Alaska, when a chance accident leaves Katya... |
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Emmy in the Key of Code
Aimee Lucido - Versify
Format: Hardcover
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In this innovative middle grade novel, coding and music take center stage as new girl Emmy tries to find her place in a new school. Perfect for fans of the Girls Who Code series and The Crossover. In a new city, at a new school, twelve-year-old Emmy has never felt more out of tune.... |
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Katie Cupcakes and Wedding Bells
Coco Simon - Simon Spotlight
Format: Paperback
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Katie is unpleasantly surprised to find out her family is moving into a new house after her mom's wedding in the latest addition to the Cupcake Diaries series.Katie's mom is getting married! Katie and her three best friends couldn't be happier and have so much fun pitching in with... |
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One Kid's Trash
Jamie Sumner - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Hugo is not happy about being dragged halfway across the state of Colorado just because his dad had a midlife crisis and decided to become a ski instructor. It'd be different if Hugo weren't so tiny, if girls didn't think he was adorable like a puppy in a purse and guys didn't... |
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For Black Girls Like Me
Mariama J. Lockington - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In this lyrical coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity, Mariama J. Lockington draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family.I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark.Makeda June Kirkland... |
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Not All Heroes
Josephine Cameron
Format: Hardcover
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Even though her family moved across the country for a "fresh start" after her little brother's death, eleven-year-old Zinnia Helinski still feels like she's stuck waiting for her new life to begin. Then she spots her new neighbor, Kris, climbing down the fire escape of their... |
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Ruby in the Sky
Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes does not want her new classmates to ask about her father. She does not want them to know her mother has been arrested. And she definitely does not want to make any friends. Ruby just wants to stay as silent and invisible as a new moon in the frozen sky. She and her mother... |
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The Becket List: A Blackberry Farm Story
Adele Griffin - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Adventure and discover with the bold and intrepid Becket Branch when her family's move from city to a country farm means big changes! Everything is changing for Becket Branch. From subways to sidewalks to safety rules, Becket is a city kid born and raised. Now the Branch family is trading... |
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Right as Rain
Lindsey Stoddard - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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From the critically acclaimed author of Just Like Jackie comes a strikingly tender novel about one family's heartbreak and the compassion that carries them through, perfect for fans of Sara Pennypacker, Lisa Graff, and Ann M. Martin.It's been almost a year since Rain's brother Guthrie died,... |
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The Secret Battle of Evan Pao
Wendy Wan-Long Shang - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Middle school can be a battlefield... From award-winning author Wendy Wan-Long Shang comes a poignant and timely take on prejudice, bullying, and claiming our own histories, perfect for fans of Front Desk.A fresh start. That's all Evan Pao wants as he, along with his mother and sister,... |
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Genesis Begins Again
Alicia D. Williams - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover
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This deeply sensitive and powerful debut novel tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself.There are ninety-six things Genesis hates about herself. She knows the exact number because she keeps... |
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