Candlewick
Dragonfly Eyes
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In 1925, Chinese sailor Yeye meets the French girl Nainai in the port of Marseilles. They fall in love and marry, and Yeye takes ...Read Review
Carrimebac, the Town That Walked
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In 1876, the Black villagers of Walkerton, Georgia, have a miserable life. Whites in the region refuse to buy crops or handicrafts produced by ...Read Review
The Lucky Ones
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In 1967, Ellis Earl Brown, who is Black, lives in a two-room shack in the Mississippi Delta with his widowed mother, eight siblings, and ...Read Review
The Beatryce Prophecy
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Author Kate DiCamillo is a two-time winner of the Newbery Medal, and the illustrator has won a similar number of Caldecott medals, so ...Read Review
Amber and Clay
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Ancient Greece. Melisto is the wild, young daughter of an aristocrat, beloved by her father and abused by her mother. Rhaskos is a ...Read Review
Zora and Me: The Summoner
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
The possibility of a zombie rising from the grave drives the action in the finale to the Zora & Me trilogy, a fictionalized ...Read Review
The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party
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Allan Wolf’s fascinating historical novel-in-verse graphically retells the story of the Donner Party using the voices of actual characters who lived or ...Read Review
Gold Rush Girl
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Prolific author Avi proves once more why he’s one of North America’s most beloved children’s authors in this stunning middle-grade ...Read Review
We Are All His Creatures: Tales of P. T. Barnum, the Greatest Showman
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Eleven stories spanning P.T. Barnum’s career from 1842 until his death in 1891 give voice to members of P.T. Barnum’s families: ...Read Review
The Summer We Found the Baby
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A baby in a basket, a first lady, and three precocious children are the ingredients of Amy Hest’s novel seton Long Island ...Read Review