5/7/2017 0 Comments Nimona2015, Written & Illustrated by Noelle Stevenson National Book Award Finalist (2015) Nimona follows the titular character, Nimona, a shape shifter who becomes the evil Lord Blackheart’s sidekick. Together, their goal is to prove to the kingdom that the Institute of Law Enforcement and Heroics along with the hero (and Lord Blackheart’s nemesis) Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin are not as heroic as everyone thinks they are.
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5/5/2017 0 Comments The Birchbark House1999, Written & Illustrated by Louise Erdrich National Book Award Finalist (1999), American Indian Youth Literature Award (2006) Omakayas is a strong, plucky seven-year-old Ojibwe girl living in 1847. When Omakayas was a baby, she was the sole survivor of a smallpox epidemic on her home of Spirit Island. Rescued by a fearless woman named Tallow, Omakayas is adopted by an Ojibwa family on Madeline Island. As Omakayas partakes in the rhythms of daily life on the island—from making birchbark houses and tanning moose hides, to picking berries and harvesting wild rice—she forges stronger connections both with her family and with unexpected friends. But when the dreaded smallpox returns to Omakayas’ life, she has to find a talent and inner strength that she did not know she had.
2015, Written & Illustrated by Don Brown Sibert Honor (2016), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2017), NCTE Orbis Pictus Award (2016) Drowned City is a non-fiction graphic novel that chronicles when Hurricane Katrina hit the city of New Orleans in August of 2005.
1997, Written by JK Rowling British Book Award for Children's Book of the Year (1998), American Booksellers Book of the Year for Children (1998) A worldwide-phenomenon that is reaching its 20th anniversary, Harry Potter is undoubtedly a children's classic. Who doesn't love Harry Potter?
2001, Written by Patricia Clark Smith Massachusetts—Rhode Island, 1653. This installment in The Royal Diaries series follows Native American leader Weetamoo when she was a teenager, written as a fictionalized account of her thoughts.
3/25/2017 0 Comments The Crossover2014, Written by Kwame Alexander Newberry Medal (2015), Coretta Scott King Award (2015) 12 year old Josh Bell's world is basketball. He and his twin brother, JB, both play it, and his dad was a professional basketball player back in his day. Told in rap-like verse, The Crossover is a powerful book about growing up, both on and off the court.
3/18/2017 0 Comments Forget Me Not2017, Written by Ellie Terry Starting a new school is hard. But Calliope June has Tourette Syndrome, and that makes it even harder. She can't always control the movements her body makes, or the sounds that come out of her mouth. When her mother's latest breakup means a new school for Callie, she tries to hide her tics, but they refuse to be silent, and Callie quickly becomes a bullying target. Only her neighbor, Jinsong, seems to see the person behind the tics, but social pressure makes him hesitant to make their friendship public.
3/18/2017 0 Comments Love That Dog2001, Written by Sharon Creech Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award Nominee (2004), Dorothy Canfield Fischer Children's Book Award (2003), Claudia Lewis Award (2002) Jack doesn't like poetry. Poetry is for girls, he says, and besides he wouldn't even know what to say. But when his teacher, Ms. Stretchberry, makes Jack write poetry as an in-class assignment, Jack discovers that maybe poetry is not so bad. And that, maybe, he does have something to say.
3/2/2017 0 Comments The Red Pencil2014, Written by Andrea Davis Pinkey, Illustrated by Shane Evans Amelia Bloomer Project for Middle-Grade Fiction (2015) The Red Pencil is the story of Amira, a girl living in the Darfur region of Sudan in the early 2000s. When her village is attacked by the Janjaweed militants, her life is shattered. Amira and what is left of her family and her village make the long journey on foot to a refugee camp. Devastated by the loss of her father, Amira's bright light begins to go out...until the gift of a red pencil lights her spark again.
3/2/2017 0 Comments George2015, Written by Alex Gino Stonewall Book Award for Children (2016), California Book Award Gold Medal (2015) George's biggest wish is to play Charlotte in her 4th grade class' production of "Charlotte's Web." She has practiced, she knows all the lines, and she knows she can nail the part. The only problem is that, even though George is a girl, everyone else thinks that she is a boy.
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