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| Title | A Bone From a Dry Sea |
| Author | Peter Dickinson |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers |
| Keywords | girls • boys/girls • adventure • Africa • girl power • If You Liked Among the Hidden • If You Liked City of Ember • inventions • older readers • problem-solving • self-reliance • society • paleontology |
When a team of anthropologists finds a dolphin's scapula on a dig in Africa, the lives of two girls separated in time by millions of years will connect. This...
Books » Non-Fiction
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| Title | A Farm Through Time |
| Author | Angela Wilkes |
| Illustrator | Eric Thomas |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books • Independent Readers • Middle Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • change • farm • history • information • non-fiction • Read aloud to 5's, 6's, 7's, 8's • reluctant listener • reluctant reader • society • Answerman |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Have you ever stood and looked out at farmlands and wondered what stood there in centuries past? This beautifully illustrated book reaches all the way back to the year 800...
Books » Non-Fiction
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| Title | A Street Through Time: A 12,000 Year Walk Through History |
| Author | Dr. Anne Millard |
| Illustrator | Steve Noon |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books • Independent Readers • Middle Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • change • history • information • Read aloud to 5's, 6's, 7's, 8's • society • Answerman |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Ten thousand years ago, what was it like on your street? This book follows the evolution of a street through time. We begin with the Stone Age Hunters, progress through...
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 » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | Alabama Moon |
| Author | Watt Key |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • acceptance • action/adventure • adventure • change • choices • coming of age • death • growing up • homelessness • If You Liked Hatchet • If You Liked Tangerine • journeys • loss • middle reader • older reader • realistic fiction • self-control • self-reliance • society • Survival • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Ten-year-old Moon Blake has been living in the wilds with his father for years. He knows how to build a fire without matches and how to make his own bow...
Books » Poetry
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| Title | Birmingham, 1963 |
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • African American • American history • Civil Rights • danger • death • discrimination • great read aloud • growing up • historical fiction • injustice • loss • poetry • prejudice • racial differences • racism • society • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
It's 1963 and the Civil Rights movement has begun. A hopeful voice waits excitedly on her tenth birthday for her special moment. She's going to sing a solo at church...
Books » Poetry
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| Title | Birmingham, 1963 |
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • African American • American history • change • Civil Rights • discrimination • growing up • injustice • middle readers • older readers • poetry • prejudice • racial differences • racism • society • violence • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
Turning ten years old, this eager young voice has already experienced lunch counter sit-ins and the voice and power of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial. But,...
Books » Historical Fiction
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| Title | Breadwinner, The |
| Author | Deborah Ellis |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • Afghanistan • coming of age • courage • family • fiction • history • injustice • Muslims • risk • society • Survival • war • Belonger/Connector |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Afghanistan and the Taliban. These words are familiar to us now. Meet Parvana, a young Afghani girl, arguing with her sister and getting stuck doing the dishes until the night...
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| Title | Candor |
| Author | Pam Bachorz |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • behavior • being yourself • choices • mature reader • older readers • risk • running away • society • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • mind control |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
The messages are everywhere. Broadcast day and night, even when you are sleeping. The messages control your mind, all your thoughts are not your own. Oscar Bank's father created Candor,...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | Chameleon |
| Author | Charles R. Smith Jr. |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • African American • basketball • being different • being yourself • change • character • choices • coming of age • courage • family • fears • feelings • first love • friendship • gangs • getting along • If You Liked Tangerine • journeys • manhood • mature readers • older readers • self-confidence • self-control • self-reliance • society • teens • violence • Belonger/Connector |
Fourteen-year-old Shawn has a summer of decisions ahead of him. They're decisions about who he is going to be, where he is going to go to high school, and what...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | Crunch |
| Author | Leslie Connor |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • family • fathers/sons • hope • humor • middle readers • older readers • overcoming obstacles • power of positive thinking • problem-solving • responsibility • society • stealing • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
Sometimes you pick up a book and meet the characters and you want to live near them, know them and make friends with them. That's exactly how I felt about...
Books » Poetry
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| Title | Dear Mr. Rosenwald |
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| Illustrator | R. Gregory Christie |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books • Middle Readers |
| Keywords | Middle Reader-Careful Content • boys • girls • boys/girls • African American • American history • books that make a difference • finding yourself • helping others • independent readers • middle readers • overcoming obstacles • picture books • poems • poetry • Read aloud to 5's, 6's, 7's, 8's • read aloud to 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s • respect • responsibility • school story • self-reliance • sharing • society • teamwork • understanding others • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
In the rural South back in the early 1900's, schools for African American children were leaking, crumbling or non-existent. A man named Mr. Rosenwald, who just happened to be the...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | Destroy All Cars |
| Author | Blake Nelson |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • accepting others • being yourself • beliefs • belonging • cars • change • choices • coming of age • environment • mature issues • mature readers • older readers • relationships • responsibility • sexuality • society • teens • values • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Move over, Holden Caulfield. There's a new misanthrope in town, and his name is James Hoff, the teen protagonist in Nelson's latest YA novel. James is a dark soul who...
Books » Science Fiction
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| Title | Downsiders |
| Author | Neal Shusterman |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action • action/adventure • adventure • friendship • If You Liked Among the Hidden • If You Liked Tangerine • intrigue • mature reader • older readers • risk • science fiction • society • teens |
A girl, a boy. They meet in the most unusual circumstances. She lives in New York City. He lives under New York City. When they meet the two worlds collide,...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | Faith, Hope and Ivy June |
| Author | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | girls • acceptance • being yourself • boys/girls • character • fiction • friendship • girl power • journal • middle reader • middle readers • older reader • older readers • self-confidence • self-esteem • self-reliance • society • values |
Ivy June's name got picked from the jar and she's going to be the ambassador from Thunder Creek to the school in Lexington, Kentucky. Catherine is going to be the...
Books » Science Fiction
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| Title | First Light |
| Author | Rebecca Stead |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • experiments • If You Liked A Wrinkle in Time • If You Liked Among the Hidden • If You Liked City of Ember • science fiction • society • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
The mystery of the world of scientists who are researching global warming in the silent, frozen world of Greenland is suspended over the mystery of the world of an entire...
Books » Picture Book
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| Title | Gandhi |
| Author | Demi |
| Illustrator | Demi |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books • Independent Readers • Middle Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • beliefs • biography • books that make a difference • bravery • change • character • courage • Independent reader • independent readers • India • middle reader • middle readers • multicultural • power • Read aloud to 5's, 6's, 7's • Read aloud to 5's, 6's, 7's, 8's • Read aloud to 6's, 7's, 8's • risk • role-models • society • struggle • thoughtful • values • violence |
The life of Gandhi is the subject of this graceful picture book. A great way to introduce young readers to the non-violence of Gandhi's resistance and his power to cause...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | If You Come Softly |
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | girls • boys/girls • a tissue box book • accepting others • African American • basketball • being different • being yourself • change • character • choices • death • friendship • If You Liked Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants • injustice • Jewish • loss • love • mature readers • multicultural • older reader • prejudice • racial differences • racism • realistic fiction • risk • society • tissue box book • values |
She’s Jewish, and he’s African –American, and one day they absolutely collide in the hallway of their school. Books go flying, and when it’s all...
Books » Non-Fiction
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| Title | Let's Read and Find Out Science: Ant Cities, Stage 2 |
| Author | Arthur Dorros |
| Illustrator | Arthur Dorros |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Reading Level | Picture Books • Independent Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • ants • bugs • independent readers • information • insects • Let's Read And Find Out Science • reluctant listener • reluctant reader • science • society • Answerman |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Let's Read and Find Out Science series continues.
Books » Action / Adventure
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| Title | Little Brother |
| Author | Cory Doctorow |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • action/adventure • adventure • coming of age • computer games • computers • conflict • consequences • cyberspace • danger • expectations • finding your voice • finding yourself • freedom • friendship • If You Liked Hunger Games • individuality • intrigue • making a difference • mature issues • mature readers • overcoming obstacles • perseverance • persistence • relationships • role-models • self-reliance • society • standing up for yourself • suspense • terrorism • understanding others • very mature readers • violence • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader • Answerman |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
When terror attacks strike San Francisco, Marcus and his friends were skipping school to play a high-tech search game. Getting past the school’s ever-present cameras and snooper-computers had just...
Books » Realistic Fiction
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| Title | Mac Slater Hunts the Cool |
| Author | Tristan Bancks |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • adventure • coming of age • competition • contest • dreams • inventions • mature readers • older readers • peer pressure • perseverance • photographs • risk • social skills • society • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Mac Slater is about to fly. His friend, Paul, has their invention all cranked up and now Mac is hitting the ramp, the wing shooting up in the air like...
Books » Science Fiction
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| Title | Maze Runner |
| Author | James Dashner |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Older Readers • Mature Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • acceptance • action • action/adventure • adventure • being different • being yourself • belonging • character • choices • helping others • If You Liked Alex Rider • If You Liked Indiana Jones • mature reader • older readers • overcoming obstacles • persistence • problem-solving • reluctant reader • risk • science fiction • self-confidence • self-control • self-esteem • self-reliance • society • struggle • Survival • trilogy • trust • Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal • Belonger/Connector • Seeker/Leader |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
| Part of a Series | Part of a Series |
Take action adventure and add science fiction, then blend in the male struggles over power, self-reliance, and fears, and you get a sense of this surging page turner.
Begin with...
Books » Science Fiction
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| Title | Messenger |
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Middle Readers • Older Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • boys/girls • adventure • belonging • books that make a difference • change • choices • courage • ethics • If You Liked A Wrinkle in Time • If You Liked Among the Hidden • middle reader • older reader • possessions • science fiction • self-reliance • society • values • Seeker/Leader |
The characters of The Giver and Gathering Blue appear again in this thought-provoking tale. Matty has found a place for himself in The Village alongside the many others who have...
Books » Fiction
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| Title | Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed |
| Author | Mo Willems |
| Illustrator | Mo Willems |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Young Listeners • Picture Books • Independent Readers |
| Keywords | boys • girls • reluctant reader • reluctant listener • acceptance • accepting others • animals • being different • being yourself • books that make a difference • boys/girls • differences • fiction • great read aloud • Independent reader • independent readers • picture books • Read aloud to 4's, 5's, 6's • Read aloud to 4's, 5's, 6's, 7's • Read aloud to 5's, 6's, 7's • society |
| Reluctant Reader | Good for Reluctant Readers |
Does the name naked mole rat intrigue you? Why are they all naked? One naked mole rat, Wilbur, loves to be dressed. He dresses in all kinds of outfits but...
Books » Short Stories
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| Title | Nectar in a Sieve |
| Author | Kamala Markandaya |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Fiction |
| Reading Level | Mature Readers |
| Keywords | girls • boys/girls • acceptance • change • character • coming of age • family • farm • friendship • happiness • helping others • India • mature readers • overcoming obstacles • society • Survival |
Twelve-year-old Rukmani will follow the tradition of her culture and will marry a man she has never met. As time passes their connection deepens and their relationship grows and...
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