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The Littlest Voyageur

Written by Margi Preus

A red squirrel stows away on a canoe to fulfill his dream of joining a group of voyageurs--men who...

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Music for Tigers

Written by Michelle Kadarusman

Shipped halfway around the world to spend the summer with her mom’s eccentric Australian relatives...

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Erik vs Everything

Written by Christina Uss

Can a worrier really become a warrior? Nine-year-old Erik Sheepflattener’s life motto is Avoid Stuff...

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The Tale of Angelino Brown

Written by David Almond

Do you believe in angels? Bert and Betty Brown do, because Bert discovered one in his shirt pocket...

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The Hedgehog of Oz

Written by Cory Leonardo

Marcel the hedgehog used to live with his beloved owner Dorothy, but since getting hopelessly lost...

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Maybe He Just Likes You

Written by Barbara Dee

For seventh-grader Mila, it starts with some boys giving her an unwanted hug on the school blacktop...

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Just Like That

Written by Gray D Schmidt

Meryl Lee Kowalski is sent to a girls' boarding school in fall 1968 to move on from her grief over a...

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Two Roads

Written by Joseph Bruchac

t's 1932, and twelve-year-old Cal Black and his Pop have been riding the rails for years after...

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Train I Ride

Written by Paul Mosier

Ryder is on a train heading east, leaving California, where her gramma can’t take care of her...

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To Night Owl From Dogfish

Written by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in...

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Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea

Written by Ashley Herring Blake

Hazel Bly used to live in the perfect house with the perfect family in sunny California. But when a...

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The Great Jeff

Written by Tony Abbott

Life hasn't been great for Jeff Hicks. After years at his beloved St. Catherine's, he's forced to...

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Wild Blues

Written by Beth Kephart

Thirteen-year-old Lizzie’s favorite place in the world is her uncle’s cabin. Uncle Davy’s renovated...

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The Eighty-Dollar Champion

On a bleak winter afternoon, Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman between the...

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Turtle Boy

Seventh grade is not going well for Will Levine. Kids at school bully him because of his funny...

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Follow the River (2) (Surviving Bear Island)

When Billy and his dad are injured, Tom summons the courage to get back on the water to save them...

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Healer of the Water Monster

American Indian Youth Literature Award Winner: Best Middle Grade Book! Brian Young’s powerful debut...

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Lintang and the Pirate Queen

Gutsy girls and strong women make up the diverse and appealing crew of a pirate ship that battles...

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Samira Surfs

A middle grade novel in verse about Samira, an eleven-year-old Rohingya refugee living in Cox's...

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Brave Chef Brianna

Brianna Jakobsson has big cooking dreams, and when her ailing restaurateur father poses a challenge...

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The Hero Next Door: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology

From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Stories, comes another...

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Right Hook of Devin Velma

From the author of Greetings from Witness Protection! comes another unforgettable middle-grade novel...

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Middle of Nowhere

At first Curtis isn't that worried when his mother doesn't come home from her all-night job at the...

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The Key to Every Thing

For eleven-year-old Tash, Cap’n Jackie isn’t just the elderly next-door neighbor — she’s family...

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