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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of all Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States. Families, teachers, farm workers-all were ordered to leave behind their homes, their businesses, and everything they owned. They were forced to live in incarceration camps, under hostile conditions, their futures uncertain. How did they endure it?...
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"After an entire summer trying to figure out how to go back to being the person she was before her depression and anxiety diagnosis, twelve-year-old Pluto finds out--with the help of the Hayden Planetarium hotline, a new tutor, and a new friend--that there is no old or new Pluto, there's just Pluto, growing up"--
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When eleven-year-old foster kid Mo finds a handmade cookbook filled with someone else's family recipes, she collects the stories behind them and builds a website to share them, secretly hoping a long-lost relative will find her and give her a family recipe all her own.
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#ActuallyAutistic Creators for Autism Acceptance Month
2022 Youth Media Awards
2023 Bluestem Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
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2022 Youth Media Awards
2023 Bluestem Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
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Ever since Ms. Murphy told us about the witch trials that happened centuries ago right here in Juniper, I can't stop thinking about them. Those people weren't magic. They were like me. Different like me. I'm autistic. I see things that others do not. I hear sounds that they can ignore. And sometimes I feel things all at once. I think about the witches, with no one to speak for them. Not everyone in our small town understands. But if I keep trying,...
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2022 Anderson's Bookshop Mock Newbery
2023 March Book Madness at Blackhawk
2023 Summer Book Picks with Miss Rachel
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2023 March Book Madness at Blackhawk
2023 Summer Book Picks with Miss Rachel
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Meet Resilience, a Mars rover determined to live up to his name. Res was built to explore Mars. He was not built to have human emotions. But as he learns new things from the NASA scientists who assemble him, he begins to develop human-like feelings. Maybe there's a problem with his programming. Human emotions or not, launch day comes, and Res blasts off to Mars, accompanied by a friendly drone helicopter named Fly. But Res quickly discovers that Mars...
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Inheritance games volume 1
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English
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2021 Summer Top Picks for High Schoolers
2022 Abraham Lincoln Teen Book Awards
2022 Lincoln Award Nominees
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2022 Abraham Lincoln Teen Book Awards
2022 Lincoln Award Nominees
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Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: Survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why - or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch - and his love of puzzles,...
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English
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BBD Hispanic Culture 2023
Best Chapter Books 2022
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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Best Chapter Books 2022
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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"Star basketball player Isaac plans on finally keeping up with his schoolwork. Better grades will surely stop Isaac's parents from arguing all the time. Meanwhile, straight-A Marco vows on finally winning his father's approval by earning a spot on the school's basketball team. But will their friendship and support for each other be enough to keep the two boys from falling short"--
8) Frizzy
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Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Marlene loves three things: books, Her cool Tía Ruby and hanging out with her best friend Camila. But according to her mother, Paola, the only thing she needs to focus on is school and "growing up." That means straightening her hair every weekend so she could have "presentable good hair." But Marlene hates being in the salon and doesn't understand why her curls are not considered pretty by those around her. With a few hiccups, a dash of embarrassment,...
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Charlie Thorne novel volume 1
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English
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2022 Department Favorites! (SCPL-YS)
2024 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
Children's Staff Picks Irish American Heritage Month
2024 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
Children's Staff Picks Irish American Heritage Month
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"Charlie Thorne is a genius. Charlie Thorne is a thief. Charlie Thorne isn't old enough to drive. And now it's up to her to save the world ... Decades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth--or destroy it. Fearing what would happen if the equation fell into the wrong hands, he hid it. But now, a diabolical group known as the Furies are closing in on its location. In desperation, a team of CIA agents drags Charlie...
10) The tryout
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Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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As one of the only Asian Americans in her school, Christina confronts both well-meaning ignorance and cruel racism, but in middle school fitting in is important, which is why she and her best friend Megan are both excited and nervous to try out for the popular cheerleading squad.
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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6th Grade Recommended Reads
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Great Reads: 4th thru 6th grade
Red Carpet Reads RMS 2023
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Great Reads: 4th thru 6th grade
Red Carpet Reads RMS 2023
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"Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches-and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers examines the Japanese-American incarceration-and the complexity of documenting it-through the work of these three photographers"--
12) Starfish
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English
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2021 Summer Top Picks for Middle Schoolers
2022 Youth Media Awards
2024 Bluestem List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
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2022 Youth Media Awards
2024 Bluestem List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
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Told in verse, Ellie lives by Fat Girl Rules to avoid being bullied, but with the support of her dad, her therapist and her neighbor Catalina, can Ellie set aside these rules and just be herself?
13) Hummingbird
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English
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2023 ALA Children's Award Winners and Nominees
Disability Pride (kids and teens)
Disability Pride Month (SCPL-YS)
Great Reads: 4th thru 6th grade
Disability Pride (kids and teens)
Disability Pride Month (SCPL-YS)
Great Reads: 4th thru 6th grade
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"When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy, but if she can find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby, and prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted."
14) The golden hour
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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2024 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
Celebrate Pride Month
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Middle Grades)
Summer Reads - 7th & 8th Grade
Celebrate Pride Month
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Middle Grades)
Summer Reads - 7th & 8th Grade
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After witnessing a violent attack at school, Manuel struggles with anxiety but his cell phone camera helps him find anchors when he dissociates, and an unexpected friendship opens up new possibilities.
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[2022]
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English
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Great Reads: 4th thru 6th grade
National Poetry Month 2023
Summer Reads - 5th & 6th Grade
Women's History Month for Kids
National Poetry Month 2023
Summer Reads - 5th & 6th Grade
Women's History Month for Kids
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"An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust-from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--
16) The fort
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English
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Five middle schoolers find a fully stocked bomb shelter constructed decades ago in the local woods by an eccentric tycoon and lost until a hurricane exposes the entrance. So, how to keep the hideout secret from interfering grown-ups--and, more particularly, from scary teen psychopath, Jaeger Devlin.
17) The lost year
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English
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In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Matthew discovers a shocking secret about his great-grandmother's past as he learns about her life during the Holodomor famine in Soviet Ukraine.
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English
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5th Grade Recommended Reads
Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Kids)
BJD New Dec 22
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Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Kids)
BJD New Dec 22
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STAND TALL.
BE LOUD.
GAME FACE ON.
This pitch perfect graphic memoir about courage and competition, friendship and belonging is perfect for fans of Smile, New Kid, Rollergirl, and Real Friends.
"A captivating middle-grade gem." - The New York Times Book Review
★ "Funny, relatable, and genuine." - Kirkus Reviews, starred
...20) A duet for home
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English
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It's June's first day at Huey House, and as if losing her home weren't enough, she also can't bring her cherished viola inside. Before the accident last year, her dad saved tip money for a year to buy her viola, and she's not about to give it up now. Tyrell has been at Huey House for three years and gives June a glimpse of the good things about living there: friendship, hot meals, and a classical musician next door. Can he and June work together to...
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