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1 - When You Can Swim
Jack Wong - Orchard Books
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A reverent celebration of learning to swim among a diverse cast of children and families who each experience the mysterious joys of water in nature. In this exploration of what it truly means to swim, expansive vignettes introduce sandpipers, tannin-soaked lakes, and the feeling of a small... |
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2 - Warrior Girl Unearthed
Angeline Boulley - Henry Holt and Co.
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#1 New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley takes us back to Sugar Island in this high-stakes thriller about the power of discovering your stolen history.. Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker, the best... |
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3 - Sunshine
Jarrett J. Krosoczka - Graphix
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When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going in, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such a serious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim?... |
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4 - Ain't Burned All the Bright
Jason Reynolds - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
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Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 pages of art, this piece, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This... |
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5 - All My Rage: A Novel
Sabaa Tahir - Listening Library
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National Book Award WINNERAn INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!An INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER!. "All My Rage is a love story, a tragedy and an infectious teenage fever dream about what home means when you feel you don't fit in." - New York Times Book Review. From #1 New York... |
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6 - Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Brandy Colbert - Balzer Bray
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A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre.In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train... |
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7 - The Patchwork Bike
Maxine Beneba Clarke - Candlewick
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It has a bent bucket seat, bashed tin-can handlebars, and wood-cut wheels - and riding the patchwork bike that you and your crazy brothers made is the best fun in the whole village.When you live in a village at the edge of the no-go desert, you need to make your own fun. That's when you and your... |
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8 - The Season of Styx Malone
Kekla Magoon - Wendy Lamb Books
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This lively and diverse middle-grade story from the award-winning author of How It Went Down has the warmth of a modern-day The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963.Caleb Franklin and his big brother Bobby Gene have the whole summer for adventures in the woods behind their... |
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10 - They Say Blue
Jillian Tamaki - Abrams Books for Young Readers
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In captivating paintings full of movement and transformation, Tamaki follows a young girl through a year or a day as she examines the colors in the world around her. Egg yolks are sunny orange as expected, yet water cupped in her hands isn't blue like they say. But maybe a blue whale is blue.... |
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