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The Moon Within

Written by Aida Salazar

Celi Rivera's life swirls with questions. About her changing body. Her first attraction to a boy...

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Wink

Written by Rob Harrell

A hilarious and heartwrenching story about surviving middle school--and an unthinkable diagnosis-...

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The Girl And The Ghost

Written by Hanna Alkaf

I am a dark spirit, the ghost announced grandly. I am your inheritance, your grandmother’s legacy. I...

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Taking Sides

Written by Gary Soto

Lincoln is in a jam when his basketball team at his new school--where the students are rich and...

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Emmy In The Key Of Code

Written by Aimee Lucido

In a new city, at a new school, twelve-year-old Emmy has never felt more out of tune. Things start...

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Patina

Written by Jason Reynolds

Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are...

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Red White And Whole

Written by Rajani LaRocca

Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she’s the only Indian American student, and home...

3rd - 7th
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Fly On The Wall

Written by Remy Lai
Henry Khoo's family treats him like a baby. He’s not allowed to go anywhere without his sister...
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Josephine Against The Sea

Written by Shakirah Bourne

Eleven-year-old Josephine knows that no one is good enough for her daddy. That's why she makes a...

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Barakah Beats

Written by Maleeha Siddiqui

Twelve-year-old Nimra Sharif has spent her whole life in Islamic school, but now it's time to go to...

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Efren Divided

Written by Ernesto Cisneros
Efrén Nava’s Amá is his Superwoman—or Soperwoman, named after the delicious Mexican sopes his mother...
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Black Brother, Black Brother

Written by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield...
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Blended

Written by Sharon M. Draper

Eleven-year-old Isabella’s parents are divorced, so she has to switch lives every week: One week she...

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Sal and Gabi Break the Universe

Written by Carlos Hernandez

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a brilliant sci-fi romp with Cuban influence that poses...

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I Can Make This Promise

Written by Christine Day

All her life, Edie has known that her mom was adopted by a white couple. So, no matter how curious...

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Genesis Begins Again

There are ninety-six reasons why thirteen-year-old Genesis dislikes herself. She knows the exact...

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Other Words for Home

Written by Jasmine Warga
Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America seems too fast and too loud. The American movies that Jude has always loved haven’t quite prepared her for starting school in the US—and her new label of “Middle Eastern,” an identity she’s never known before.
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New Kid

Written and Illustrated by Jerry Craft
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life.
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The Best At It

Written by Maulik Pancholy

Rahul Kapoor is heading into seventh grade in a small town in Indiana. The start of middle school is...

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The Parker Inheritance

Written by Varian Johnson

When Candice finds a letter in an old attic in Lambert, South Carolina, she isn't sure she should...

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Stand Up, Yumi Chung!

Written by Jessica Kim

On the outside, Yumi Chung suffers from #shygirlproblems, a perm-gone-wrong, and kids calling her...

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When You Trap A Tiger

Written by Tae Keller

When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her...

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The First Rule of Punk

Written by Celia C. Perez

There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school—you can’t fix it with duct tape...

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Kofi Chronicles

Written by Kashvi Ramani and Illustrated by Serena Parrish
Kashvi Ramani wrote Kofi Chronicles at age 14.
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