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Iveliz Explains It All cover
Iveliz Explains It All
None · 2023 honor
Subjects & themes: Anxiety disorders · Psychotherapy · Diaries · Grandmothers · Alzheimer's disease
Book ×13
A Snake Falls to Earth cover
A Snake Falls to Earth
Darcie Little Badger · 2022 honor
Subjects & themes: Apache girls · Apache mythology · Storytelling · Shapeshifting · Magic
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×25 Large Print eAudiobook Playaway
Too Bright to See cover
Too Bright to See
Kyle Lukoff · 2022 honor
Subjects & themes: Best friends · Middle school students · Apparitions · Gender identity · Trans children
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×20 Large Print
Watercress cover
Watercress
Andrea Wang · 2022 honor
Subjects & themes: Watercress · Harvesting · Chinese Americans · Families · Ohio
Reading level: Grades K-2 ⓘ
Book ×34
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team cover
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
Christina Soontornvat · 2021 honor
Subjects & themes: Caving · Caving accidents · Rescues · Soccer players
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×30 Audiobook CD
Fighting Words cover
Fighting Words
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley · 2021 honor
Subjects & themes: Sisters · Middle school students · Suicidal behavior · Children of prisoners · Sex crimes
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×9 Large Print Audiobook CD
Scary Stories for Young Foxes cover
Scary Stories for Young Foxes
Christian McKay Heidicker · 2020 honor
Subjects & themes: Foxes · Animals · Survival · Storytelling
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×16
Piecing Me Together cover
Piecing Me Together
Renée Watson · 2018 honor
Subjects & themes: Mentoring · High schools · Schools · African Americans
Reading level: Grades 9-12 ⓘ
Book ×13
The Inquisitor's Tale cover
The Inquisitor's Tale
Adam Gidwitz · 2017 honor
Subjects & themes: Child oblates · Jews · Prophets · Persecution · Quests (Expeditions)
Book ×7 Large Print Audiobook CD
The War That Saved My Life cover
The War That Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley · 2016 honor
Subjects & themes: World War, 1939-1945 · People with disabilities · Siblings · Great Britain
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×9 Audiobook CD Playaway
Brown Girl Dreaming cover
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson · 2015 honor
Subjects & themes: Woodson, Jacqueline · Authors, American · African American women authors
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×40 Large Print Audiobook CD
El Deafo cover
El Deafo
Cece Bell · 2015 honor
Subjects & themes: Bell, Cece · Deaf children · Schools · Hearing aids for children · Friendship
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×12 eBook
Doll Bones cover
Doll Bones
Holly Black · 2014 honor
Subjects & themes: Adventure stories. · Friendship · Dolls · Ghost stories. · Dysfunctional families
Book ×21 Audiobook CD
One Came Home cover
One Came Home
Amy Timberlake · 2014 honor
Subjects & themes: Missing persons · Frontier and pioneer life · Shooters of firearms · Counterfeits and counterfeiting · Wisconsin
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×5 Audiobook CD
Paperboy cover
Paperboy
Vince Vawter · 2014 honor
Subjects & themes: Stuttering · Newspaper carriers · Interpersonal relations · Self-esteem · Race relations
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×9
Bomb: The Race to Build -and Steal- the World's Most Dangerous Weapon cover
Bomb: The Race to Build -and Steal- the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Steve Sheinkin · 2013 honor
Subjects & themes: Atomic bomb · World War, 1939-1945 · Operation Freshman, 1942
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×5 Playaway
Splendors and Glooms cover
Splendors and Glooms
Laura Amy Schlitz · 2013 honor
Subjects & themes: Puppets · Orphans · Kidnapping · Witches · Blessing and cursing
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×6 eBook
Three Times Lucky cover
Three Times Lucky
Sheila Turnage · 2013 honor
Subjects & themes: Detective and mystery stories. · Restaurants · Community life · Identity (Psychology) · Murder
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×35 Audiobook CD
Breaking Stalin's Nose cover
Breaking Stalin's Nose
Eugene Yelchin · 2012 honor
Subjects & themes: Communism · Fathers and sons · Soviet Union
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×8 Playaway
Inside Out & Back Again cover
Inside Out & Back Again
Thanhha Lai · 2012 honor
Subjects & themes: Novels in verse. · Vietnamese Americans · Emigration and immigration · Immigrants · Vietnam
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×27
Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night cover
Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night
Joyce Sidman · 2011 honor
Subjects & themes: Night · Forest animals · Children's poetry, American.
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×5 Audiobook CD
Heart of a Samurai cover
Heart of a Samurai
Margi Preus · 2011 honor
Subjects & themes: Nakahama, Manjirō, · Japanese · Japan · United States
Book ×5
One Crazy Summer cover
One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia · 2011 honor
Subjects & themes: Black Panther Party · Sisters · Mothers · Poets · African Americans
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Audiobook CD Book Large Print eBook Playaway
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Turtle in Paradise
Jennifer L. Holm · 2011 honor
Subjects & themes: Cousins · Families · Depressions · Key West (Fla.)
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×21 Audiobook CD
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate cover
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Jacqueline Kelly · 2010 honor
Subjects & themes: Nature stories. · Families · Grandfathers · Naturalists · Texas
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×3 Audiobook CD
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg cover
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Rodman Philbrick · 2010 honor
Subjects & themes: Adventure stories. · Orphans · Brothers · United States
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×17 Audiobook CD
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Grace Lin · 2010 honor
Subjects & themes: Fairy tales. · Dragons · Moon
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×14 eBook Audiobook CD
After Tupac and D Foster cover
After Tupac and D Foster
Jacqueline Woodson · 2009 honor
Subjects & themes: Shakur, Tupac, · Friendship · African Americans · Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×4
Savvy cover
Savvy
Ingrid Law · 2009 honor
Subjects & themes: Magic · Siblings · Voyages and travels
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×8
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom cover
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
Margarita Engle · 2009 honor
Subjects & themes: Children's poetry, American. · Cuba
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book
The Underneath cover
The Underneath
Kathi Appelt · 2009 honor
Subjects & themes: Dogs · Cats · Bayous
Book ×44 Playaway
Elijah of Buxton cover
Elijah of Buxton
Christopher Paul Curtis · 2008 honor
Subjects & themes: Liberty · Slavery · Black people · North Buxton (Ont.) · Canada
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×16 eBook Audiobook CD Playaway
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Feathers
Jacqueline Woodson · 2008 honor
Subjects & themes: Race relations · African Americans · Schools · Deaf people · Families
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×8 Audiobook CD
The Wednesday Wars cover
The Wednesday Wars
Gary D. Schmidt · 2008 honor
Subjects & themes: Shakespeare, William, · Junior high schools · Families · Long Island (N.Y.)
Book ×7 eBook eAudiobook
Hattie Big Sky cover
Hattie Big Sky
Kirby Larson · 2007 honor
Subjects & themes: Self-reliance · Frontier and pioneer life · Orphans · World War, 1914-1918 · Montana
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×2
Penny from Heaven cover
Penny from Heaven
Jennifer L. Holm · 2007 honor
Subjects & themes: Families · Italian Americans · New Jersey
Book ×3 Audiobook CD
Whittington cover
Whittington
Alan Armstrong · 2006 honor
Subjects & themes: Whittington, Richard, · Cats · Domestic animals
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book
Olive's Ocean cover
Olive's Ocean
Kevin Henkes · 2004 honor
Subjects & themes: Grandmothers · Families · Self-perception
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×11 eBook
26 Fairmount Avenue cover
26 Fairmount Avenue
Tomie dePaola · 2000 honor
Subjects & themes: DePaola, Tomie, · Authors, American · Meriden (Conn.)
Reading level: Grades K-2 ⓘ
Book ×14
A Girl Named Disaster cover
A Girl Named Disaster
Nancy Farmer · 1997 honor
Subjects & themes: Paranormal fiction. · Survival · Adventure stories. · Zimbabwe
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×6
The Perilous Gard cover
The Perilous Gard
Elizabeth Marie Pope · 1975 honor
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book
Annie and the Old One cover
Annie and the Old One
Miska Miles · 1972 honor
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×5
My Side of the Mountain cover
My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George · 1960 honor
Subjects & themes: Survival · Self-reliance · Mountain life · Nature study · Outdoor life
Book ×35 Audiobook CD
Indian Captive cover
Indian Captive
Lois Lenski · 1942 honor
Subjects & themes: Jemison, Mary, · Indian captivities · Seneca Indians · Indians of North America
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×2 eBook
Mr. Popper's Penguins cover
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Florence Atwater; Richard Atwater · 1939 honor
Subjects & themes: Penguins
Book ×58
Audubon
Constance Rourke · 1937 honor
Subjects & themes: Audubon, John James,
Large Print Book
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book cover
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book
Lois Lenski · 1937 honor
Subjects & themes: Families · Christian life · Puritans · Books · Connecticut
Book ×2
Young Walter Scott
Elizabeth Gray Vining · 1936 honor
Subjects & themes: Scott, Walter, · Authors, Scottish
Book
Floating Island
Anne Parrish · 1931 honor
Book
Meggy MacIntosh
Elizabeth Gray Vining · 1931 honor
Subjects & themes: Scots · North Carolina
Book
Spice and the Devil's Cave
Agnes Hewes · 1931 honor
Subjects & themes: Portugal
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book
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Millions of Cats
Wanda Gág · 1929 honor
Subjects & themes: Cats
Reading level: Grades K-2 ⓘ
Book ×5
The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo
John Bennett · 1929 honor
Book
The Runaway Papoose
Grace Moon · 1929 honor
Subjects & themes: Indians of North America
Book
Nicholas; A Manhattan Christmas Story
Anne Carroll Moore · 1925 honor
Book
The Fairy Circus
Dorothy P. Lathrop · 1932 honor
Garram the Hunter, A Boy of the Hill Tribes
Herbert Best · 1931 honor
Mountains Are Free
Julia Davis Adams · 1931 honor
Ood-le-uk the Wanderer
Alice Alison Lide; Margaret Alison Johansen · 1931 honor
Queer Person
Ralph Hubbard · 1931 honor
Little Blacknose
Hildegarde Hoyt Swift · 1930 honor
Pran of Albania
Elizabeth Cleveland Miller · 1930 honor
The Dark Star of Itza, The Story of A Pagan Princess
Alida Malkus · 1930 honor