Kids
The night diary
Veera Hiranandani
jFICTION Hiranandani, Veera
Kids
Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
Flush
Carl Hiaasen
jFICTION Hiaasen, Carl
Kids
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
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Sal & Gabi break the universe
Carlos Alberto Hernandez
jFICTION Hernandez, Carlos Alberto
Kids
In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.
Added by Anne W
The Vanderbeekers and the hidden garden
Karina Yan Glaser
jFICTION Glaser, Karina Yan
Kids
"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"--
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The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
Karina Yan Glaser
jFICTION Glaser, Karina Yan
Kids
Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.
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The last last-day-of-summer
L. R. (Lamar R.) Giles
jFICTION Giles, L. R.
Kids
When adventurous cousins Otto and Sheed Alston accidentally extend the last day of summer by freezing time, they find the secrets between the unmoving seconds are not as much fun as they expected.
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The birchbark house
Louise Erdrich
jFICTION Erdrich, Louise
Kids, Historical Fiction
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
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Out of my mind
Sharon M. (Sharon Mills) Draper
jFICTION Draper, Sharon M.
Kids
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
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The lotterys plus one
Emma Donoghue
jFICTION Donoghue, Emma
Kids, LGBTQ+
Once upon a time, two couples with Jamaican, Mohawk, Indian, and Scottish ethnic roots won the lottery and bought a big house where all of them, four adults and seven adopted and biological children, could live together in harmony--but change is inevitable, especially when a disagreeable grandfather comes to stay.
Added by Anne W
Added by Anne W