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By Esmé Raji Codell. 2003
Sahara is failing fifth grade, but her mother knows she doesn't belong in special education. Instead, Sahara repeats the regular…
class, this time with a new teacher, Madame Poitier, who believes that rules should be positive, like "yes, listen," not negative, like "no talking." Some strong language. For grades 4-7. 2003By Lenore Look, Anne Wilsdorf. 2004
Ruby Lu is almost eight and she likes lots of things--magic tricks, her baby brother Oscar, and visiting her grandparents…
in Chinatown. But she is worried about going to Chinese school and having relatives from China move into her home. For grades 2-4. 2004By Beth Vrabel. 2020
When Gordon snaps a photo of an escaped prisoner who is caught in a pigpen, The Cub Report gains national…
media attention. Meanwhile, the parents question the safety of a kid-run independent newspaper and the kids fight for their right to report the news. Sequel to The Newspaper Club (DB 99084). For grades 4-7. 2020By Karen Kane. 2019
When a Castle-on-the-Hudson school legend suddenly goes missing, Charlie is the prime suspect. But he and his best friend, Frog,…
are determined to find the real culprit. For grades 3-6. 2019By Joan Bauer. 2002
At six feet three and a half inches, Tree is the tallest seventh-grade boy but not the greatest basketball player.…
He copes with his parents' divorce by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school. For grades 5-8. 2002By Claudia Mills, G. Brian Karas. 2002
Third-grader Wilson has three weeks to pass all twelve times-table tests and worries he'll never do it. Holding the class…
hamster, Squiggles, calms Wilson down, and his parents help him practice multiplication at home, but it's Kipper, his brother in kindergarten, who helps in a special way. For grades 2-4. 2002By Jackie Yeager. 2017
Kia and four of her classmates are selected to compete in the Fiftieth Annual Piedmont Challenge to win a coveted…
spot at PIPS, the Piedmont Inventors Prep School. But first they must solve a series of tasks against the other teams at Camp Piedmont. For grades 4-7. 2017By Jacqueline Woodson, Rafael López. 2018
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's LiteratureA #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!National Book Award winner Jacqueline…
Woodson and two-time Pura Belpré Illustrator Award winner Rafael López have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone. There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you.There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from; maybe it's what you eat, or something just as random. It's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it. Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael López's dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes-and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our stories, others will be happy to meet us halfway.(This book is also available in Spanish, as El Día En Que Descubres Quién Eres!)By Alexandra Diaz. 2018
Cousins Jaime and Ángela discover what it means to live as undocumented immigrants in the United States. Meanwhile, news from…
their families back in Guatemala gets increasingly worse. Sequel to The Only Road (DB 89471). For grades 5-8. 2018By Nisha Sharma. 2018
Betrayed by Raj, whom she thought she was fated to marry, teenaged Winnie teams with fellow film fan Dev to…
get her life back on track and find her true soul mate. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2018By Beth Vrabel, Paula Franco. 2020
Shortly after moving to a sleepy town, aspiring journalist Nellie is on the scene when some residents gather to report…
being victims of crime at their local park. Determined to get the scoop, Nellie searches for volunteers to create her own newspaper, The Cub Report. For grades 4-7. 2020By Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot. 2013
By Elizabeth Lilly. 2018
No, no, NO! Geraldine is NOT moving. Not to this new town where she's the only giraffe. Not to this…
new school where she has no friends. Not to this new place, where everyone only knows her as That Giraffe Girl. But soon Geraldine meets Cassie, a girl who is just as much of an outcast as she is, and as time goes by, she realizes that being yourself and making one really good, unusual friend can help someone who literally stands out fit right in. Together, Geraldine and Cassie play by their own rules. Nominated for Maryland's Black-Eyed Susan Award for picture books. For preschool-grade 2By Juana Medina. 2016
Juana, a spunky young girl from Colombia, loves playing with her canine best friend, Lucas, and resists boring school activities,…
especially learning English. But she changes her mind after her family entices her with a special trip to an English-speaking place. Pura Belpré Award. For grades 2-4. 2016By Natalie Rompella. 2017
Ana is excited to start middle school with her best friend Lily, who understands Ana's obsessive-compulsive behavior and shares Ana's…
plan to write and sell their own cookbook. But things change dramatically when they are assigned to different partners for their year-long Explorations project. For grades 3-6. 2017By Angela Dominguez. 2018
Stella Díaz wants to be friends with the new boy in class, but sometimes she accidentally speaks Spanish instead of…
English and pronounces words wrong, which makes her turn roja. In addition, she has to get over her fear of speaking in front of the class. For grades 3-6. 2018By Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot. 2014
By Lynn Plourde. 2016
Timminy is reluctant to leave Portland behind and move to the country. As a consolation prize, however, he gains Maxi,…
a gentle giant of a dog who the family quickly discovers is deaf. Maxi changes Timminy's life forever. For grades 4-7. 2016By Jason Reynolds. 2016
Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his city's elite track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by…
a tragic past with an abusive, alcoholic father. For grades 5-8. 2016By Sara Pennypacker, Marla Frazee. 2015
Clementine faces changes at the end of her third grade year and anticipates the birth of her family's new baby.…
Sequel to Clementine and the Spring Trip (DB 76259). For grades 2-4. 2015