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| Title | House of Djinn |
| Author | Suzanne Fisher Staples |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | girls • boys/girls • desert • family • finding your voice • finding yourself • intrigue • mature readers • mothers/daughters • multicultural • older readers • Pakistan • self-control • self-reliance • standing up for yourself • struggle • trilogy |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Muti lives with her relatives and suffers death by"a thousand pinpricks" at the hands of Leyla. Her cousin, Jameel, is her best friend, but he lives in San Francisco, so...
Books » Fiction
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| Title | 10 Lucky Things That Have Happened To Me Since I Nearly Got Hit By Lightning |
| Author | Mary Hershey |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | girls • being yourself • family • fears • friends • middle readers • older reader • puberty • sisters • realistic fiction • humor |
Fourth-grader Effie Maloney has a list of the lucky things that have happened to her since she was hit by lightning. Life is good when you have a great mom...
Books » Action / Adventure
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| Title | 39 Clues: Storm Warning |
| Author | Linda Sue Park |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | Middle Reader-Careful Content • boys • girls • boys/girls • action • action/adventure • adventure • animals • Canada • Caribbean • family • great read aloud • journeys • middle readers • older readers • problem-solving • responsibility • risk • self-reliance • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
Storm Warning is a mesmerizing story of intrigue, double-crossing, adventure, loss and self-discovery. Amy and Dan are led to the Caribbean in search of the next clue, but they...
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| Title | A Chair for My Mother |
| Author | Vera Williams |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books • Independent Readers |
| Keywords | books that make a difference • compassion • family • money • Read aloud to 5's, 6's, 7's |
What do you do when your whole house has burned up with everything in it? Friends and family come and give you some things that you need ... but...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | A Corner of the Universe |
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | family • middle reader • Newbery Honor • older reader • realistic fiction |
Hattie lives with her family in their home which has been turned into a boarding house. She knows all the boarders and their peculiarities. She can't walk around town without...
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| Title | A Crooked Kind of Perfect |
| Author | Linda Urban |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers |
| Keywords | Middle Reader-Careful Content • girls • boys/girls • family • finding your voice • friends • great read aloud • 5th Grade Read Alouds • humor • If You Liked Mallory • If You Liked Tangerine • journeys • middle readers • music • problem-solving • responsibility • risk • self-reliance |
What if your dad gives you a gift that, well, you didn’t exactly have in mind? Zoe, 11 years old, more than anything wants to play the piano at...
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| Title | A Day No Pigs Would Die |
| Author | Robert Newton Peck |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • coming of age • death • family • fathers • fathers/sons • growing up • If You Liked Hatchet • If You Liked Tangerine • If You Liked The Lost Years of Merlin • middle readers • older readers • realistic fiction • respect • responsibility • self-control • self-reliance • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Robert is a young boy of the Plain People. This is the story of his pilgrimage to manhood. Life presents Robert with many lessons and behind them all is the...
Books » Mystery
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| Title | A Face First |
| Author | Priscilla Cummings |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | acceptance • being different • being yourself • boys/girls • burns • choices • fairness • family • feelings • getting along • honesty • hope • hospital • mature readers • mystery • older readers • point of view • realistic fiction • responsibility • self-confidence • self-esteem • self-reliance • telling the truth |
She wakes up in the hospital after a really bad car crash. She has been really badly burned. Her face is covered to protect the skin. Day by day she...
Books » Picture Book
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| Title | A Long Way From Home |
| Author | Elizabeth Baguley |
| Illustrator | Jane Chapman |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • acceptance • accepting others • adventure • being yourself • change • family • feelings • running away • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Noah is the Smallest Bunny and he is tired of being squished and squashed in his very crowded house which is filled with too many family members! One night he...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend |
| Author | Emily Horner |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • acceptance • accidents • ambiguity • being yourself • bicycles • character • choices • coming of age • courage • danger • death • family • finding your voice • finding yourself • first love • growing up • high school • homosexuality • identity • If You Liked Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants • journal • journeys • labeling • letting go • prejudice • quests • reputation • standing up for yourself • summer • Survival • Belonger/Connector |
AfterJulia’s death in a car crash, Cass can’t stay in town as the Drama Kids getready to perform Julia’s “top secret” play as a tribute to begin their senioryear...
Books » Picture Book
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| Title | A New Coat for Anna |
| Author | Harriet Ziefert |
| Illustrator | Anita Lobel |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • clothing • concepts • economics • family • how things work • overcoming obstacles • perseverance • picture books • possessions • Read aloud to 6's, 7's, 8's • World War II • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
World War II has just ended and money is scarce. Anna needs a new coat and Mother has been promising to get one. But the stores don't have any coats...
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| Title | A Place Where Hurricanes Happen |
| Author | Renee Watson |
| Illustrator | Shadra Strickland |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • African American • change • family • hurricanes • neighborhoods • overcoming obstacles • Read aloud to 6's, 7's, 8's • Survival • weather • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
In the neighborhoods of New Orleans in those days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, children played hide and seek, helped make jumbalaya and knew they belonged. The voices of Keesha,...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | A Summer To Die |
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | girls • change • coming of age • death • family • growing up • identity • journeys • loss • mature reader • older reader • older readers • realistic fiction • sisters • If You Liked Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants |
Two sisters, Molly and Meg, are moving into a new, small house out in the country, so Dad can write his book. Molly, 15, is the beautiful sister, the cheerleader,...
Books » Humor
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| Title | A Whole Nother Story |
| Author | Dr. Cuthbert Soup |
| Illustrator | Jeffrey Stewart Timmins |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action • action/adventure • adventure • family • fathers • humor • If You Liked Captain Underpants • If you Liked Diary of A Wimpy Kid • inventions • journeys • middle readers • reluctant reader • secret agents • time travel • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and that's "A Whole Nother Story." The entire Cheeseman family is piling into the white station wagon along with Dad's invention, the LVR,...
Books » Science Fiction
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| Title | A Wrinkle in Time |
| Author | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • being different • being yourself • books that make a difference • character • classic • family • fathers • identity • If You Liked A Wrinkle in Time • If You Liked Among the Hidden • If You Liked City of Ember • journeys • mature readers • middle readers • older readers • science fiction • society • space • struggle • time travel • values • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
"You were a star once, weren't you?" Charles Wallace asks Mrs. Whatsit and that line alone will give you the sense that this book takes you to a new place....
Books » Picture Book
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| Title | Abuela |
| Author | Arthur Dorros |
| Illustrator | Elise Kleven |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • family • Hispanic • Spanish/English • Belonger/Connector |
Grandmothers are celebrated in this bilingual story.
Books » Historical Fiction
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| Title | Across Five Aprils |
| Author | Irene Hunt |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • boys/girls • American history • bravery • character • choices • Civil War • coming of age • family • fathers/sons • historical fiction • mature reader • older reader • war • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • If You Liked My Brother Sam Is Dead |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
The five Aprils are the five years of the American Civil War. Fifteen-year-old Jethro Creighton lives those five Aprils, and it's through his experiences that we follow the paths of...
Books » Science Fiction
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| Title | Adoration of Jenna Fox |
| Author | Mary E. Pearson |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | girls • boys/girls • accidents • choices • ethics • experiments • family • identity • medical ethics • medicine • older readers • parenting • reluctant reader • science |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Seventeen year old Jenna awakens from a coma following a car accident with no memory of her past life. However, she has many questions: How can she remember...
Books » Picture Book
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| Title | Adventures of Riley: Safari in South Africa |
| Author | Amanda Lumry and Laura Hurwitz |
| Illustrator | Sarah McIntyre |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books • Independent Readers • Middle Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • adventure • Africa • animals • biology • conservation • exploration • family • independent readers • information • jungle animals • learning • middle readers • nature • non-fiction • part of a series • Read aloud to 5's, 6's, 7's • reluctant listener • reluctant reader • science • wildlife • wildlife biologists • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Ever wished you could go on a safari in South Africa? Here's your chance. Riley gets a letter from his Uncle Max that invites him to go along with his...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | After Ever After |
| Author | Jordan Sonnenblick |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | Middle Reader-Careful Content • boys • girls • boys/girls • a tissue box book • acceptance • accepting others • brothers • cancer • change • character • choices • coming of age • courage • diseases • family • finding yourself • first love • friends • friendship • growing up • middle readers • middle school • older readers • physical challenges • relationships • reluctant reader • risk • role-models • self-reliance • special needs • standing up for yourself • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Jeffrey Alper, eighth grader, is headed to the first day of a new school year when he stops to help a girl in the hallway who has dropped her papers....
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | Al Capone Does My Shirts |
| Author | Gennifer Choldenko |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • autism • character • coming of age • family • growing up • helping others • If You Liked Tangerine • middle readers • realistic fiction • relationships • siblings • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan, his sister, Natalie, and his parents have just moved into their new home and their new lives on Alcatraz Island. Dad has a new job working for...
Books » Picture Book
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| Title | Alexander Who's Not Going to Move |
| Author | Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz |
| Illustrator | Robin Preiss Glasser |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • brothers • change • family • fears • feelings • friendship • great read aloud • letting go • moving • Read aloud to 4's, 5's, 6's, 7's • reluctant listener • reluctant reader • risk • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Alexander is back and he is absolutely determined that he is not going to move 1000 miles away from his friends and the neighborhood he knows so well. He has...
Books » Picture Book
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| Title | Ali, Child of the Desert |
| Author | Jonathan London |
| Illustrator | Ted Lewin |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books |
| Keywords | camels • coming of age • courage • family • Morocco • Read aloud to 5's, 6's, 7's, 8's |
Finally, Ali is old enough to accompany his father to market to sell their camels. As they journey through the Great Sahara of Morocco, suddenly, a sandstorm rises, and Ali...
Books » Fiction
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| Title | Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls, Book One: Moving Day |
| Author | Meg Cabot |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers |
| Keywords | family • fiction • friendship • girl power • If You Liked Mallory • middle reader • moving |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
You really do need to meet nine-year-old Allie Finkle. She's the kind of young lady who worries that the turtles in the small pond at the local Chinese restaurant might...
Books » Picture Book
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| Title | Amazing Grace, Book 2: Boundless Grace |
| Author | Mary Hoffman |
| Illustrator | Caroline Binch |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books |
| Keywords | African American • family • fiction • girl power • girls • identity • Read aloud to 4's, 5's, 6's • travel |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
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