Kids
Merci Suárez changes gears
Meg Medina
jFICTION Medina, Meg
Kids
Merci Suárez relies on her close, extended family as she goes through many changes during her sixth-grade year at Florida's Seaward Pines Academy.
The giver
Lois Lowry
jFICTION Lowry, Lois
Kids, Science Fiction
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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Number the stars
Lois Lowry
jFICTION Lowry, Lois
Kids, Historical Fiction
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis
jFICTION Lewis, C. S.
Kids, Classics, Fantasy
Four English school children enter the magic land of Narnia through the back of a wardrobe and assist Aslan, the golden lion, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
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Dragon pearl
Yoon Ha Lee
jFICTION Lee, Yoon Ha
Kids, Fantasy
Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.
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Inside out & back again
Thanhha Lai
jFICTION Lai, Thanhha
Kids, Historical Fiction, Poetry
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
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A wrinkle in time
Madeleine L'Engle
jFICTION L'Engle, Madeleine
Kids, Science Fiction
Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.
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To the moon : the true story of the American heroes on the Apollo 8 spaceship
Jeffrey Kluger
j629.454 Kluger
Kids, Nonfiction
The inspiring true story of Apollo 8, the first crewed American spaceship to break free of Earth's orbit and reach the moon.
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Diary of a wimpy kid : wrecking ball
Jeff Kinney
jFICTION Kinney, Jeff
Kids, Humor
When an unexpected inheritance gives Greg Heffley's family a chance to make big changes to their house, they soon discover that renovations may not be worth the effort.
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Diary of a wimpy kid : the meltdown
Jeff Kinney
jFICTION Kinney, Jeff
Kids, Humor
When snow closes Greg Heffley's middle school, he and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, face a fight for survival as warring gangs turn the neighborhood into a wintry battlefield.
Added by Anne W
Added by Anne W