Diary of a Not Normal Child
Twelve-year-old Itanya works in a Kenyan factory with her mother in order to scrape by. Her dream is to eat and learn and live like a "normal child," but that dream feels so far from reach.
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Reading Level: 3.3
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The Crossroads
Two beetle leaves, three beetle nuts, an unbroken coconut, and a five-paise coin. Will the forest goddess, Maramma, accept these offerings and heal the boy who delivers them to her?
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Reading Level: 3.9
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The Driving Test
Enrique's never really enjoyed being a teenager. But now he's got a chance—if he can make a change.
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Reading Level: 4.1
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Different
It feels dangerous and lonely to be "different" for Caleb. If he admits who he is, will things get better or worse?
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Reading Level: 2.4
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Hmong New Year When Grandma Was Alive
Some New Years traditions center around watching the ball drop or staying up until midnight. This celebration focuses on the connections between food, family, and memory.
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Middle School
Reading Level: 5.4
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Room for Company
Aunt Delly has always told Noelle that naughty children get taken away. When Noelle comes to find herself "stolen" by the roaders, it's nothing like what she'd been told.
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Middle School
Reading Level: 1.9
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Instructions for My 5th-Grade Self
Yijia's fifth-grade self has a knack for attracting attention from Mrs. Lou... but not the good kind of attention. One moment stands out in particular, one that she just can't ever forget.
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Reading Level: 4.4
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Art and Anger
Noah is angry, and getting bullied at his new school doesn't help. But when he befriends the principal's daughter, Noah learns how art and friendship can help him heal.
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High School
Reading Level: 3.0
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My Name Is Nasim
Nasim is an Iranian American, and as such, is very used to feeling out of place. But there's beauty in being herself, and to find it, she needs to stop letting others tell her who she is.
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Reading Level: 3.9
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A Mess of French Macarons
The errand that music-loving Danny is running in town for his mom doesn't go quite as planned.
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Reading Level: 3.9
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5 Steps to Win Her Heart
Mateo's best friend Kat Nguyen breaks up with him, and he’s far from over it. He has to win her back, but how? The 1950s book "5 Steps to Win Her Heart" just might be the answer he’s looking for.
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Reading Level: 1.1
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Masakali, Masakali
Aggressive Bhim and sensitive Nakku are unlikely friends who find trouble when they try to get revenge on their playground bully.
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Reading Level: 2.1
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Divided in Land but Together in Heart: A Tale of Cyprus
Living on opposite sides of a divided Cyprus, two teen girls—one of Turkish descent, one of Greek descent—become friends with a shared goal: to bring together old friends and new.
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Reading Level: 3.7
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A Night to Remember
When Aubree suggests stealing their rival school's mascot before the big game tomorrow night, she doesn't think Finn will actually take her up on it. This is sure to be a night to remember.
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Reading Level: 3.8
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Tales from the Drake House Outhouse 3
In the final installation of The Drake House Outhouse, Maddy and Zach have wrapped up their version of what happened in their corner of the world back in the days of the early pioneers.
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Reading Level: 3.8
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Tales From The Drake House Outhouse 2
Zach uses his imagination to create a movie script about the Drake family. Maddy objects to Zach’s notion that, “all stories are true and some of them actually happened.
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Reading Level: 2.7
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Tales From The Drake House Outhouse 1
Two 12-year-olds work back in time with each ‘find’ they dig up from an historian’s dream: a 180-year old outhouse.
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Reading Level: 2.4
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The Syrian Drummer and the Cactus Crimson Paint
Can three friends put their minds together to save their new bandmate from the prejudices threatening him and his family?
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Jacob and the Bee Man
Jacob has committed a crime, and now it's time to pay for it. Will his bad decisions stick with him forever, or can he grow past them?
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A Runaway Tale
Zigg finally makes his escape. For the first time in his life, he gets a taste of freedom, but it doesn't last. Soon, a new set of captors are after him.
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Gift of the Curupira
A love potion, some dark magic, and a warning from Elena's aunt . . . what can possibly go wrong?
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Reading Level: 2.2
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Walks with Augustus
Afternoon walks with a troublesome white terrier change everything for Sofia, but not in the way anyone would have expected. Especially her.
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Running The Point
Ennie's aunt forbids him to spend time with Kelly, afraid that the girl will derail Ennie from his dreams. But doesn't she see that Kelly needs his help?
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Bully
Holly is lonely and angry. To avoid being bullied, she becomes the bully herself. Can something as small as a ring change everything?
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The Message
Sienna's parents are arrested after being caught stealing from an art museum. Can a series of messages and some unlikely friends help her navigate her life's new normal?
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Poppies for Amelia
Nash is fourteen years old when he drives a car through Mr. Lieberman's fence. His choices now are to help rebuild what he has broken or face arrest.
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Reading Level: 3.6
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Burnt Bacon
Sadie and Henry face homelessness, poverty, and shame on the streets of Chicago, but together they find hope and a new future.
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Post High School
Reading Level: 5.0
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Long Road to Redemption
Victor is seventeen years old when he is sentenced to 35 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice System. Can he change his story from here, or is this really all there is to his tale?
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Reading Level: 4.9
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The Book Report
Megan thinks book reports are the worst part of school until one special book and its author show her that reading might not be so bad after all.
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Reading Level: 3.1
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The Story I Needed
When a girl is being bullied at school, her grandmother knows exactly what to say.
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Reading Level: 4.0
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Katkati
Life isn't always easy living in a settlement and breaking bricks. But thanks to the right perspective and her family's love, one little girl finds hope.
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Reading Level: 2.9
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Jacob's Trouble
Life isn't fair; that's what makes Jacob so angry and what pushes him onto a path that's leading towards trouble.
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Reading Level: 2.1
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No Pickles for Annabelle
As a pickle farmer's daughter and a fifth grader with terrible spelling skills, Annabelle believes she is destined to pick prickly green pickles and be the worst speller forever.
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Reading Level: 4.7
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Lorelei and the White Mare
Since her mother died last year, time has stood still for Lorelei, although the rest of the world has continued spinning. Confused and alone, she pours herself into her job at the local stable.
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High School
Reading Level: 4.4
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Sabbath
Susan's Friday night plans had looked so different before her parents force her to attend her grandparents' Sabbath dinner. Ugh.
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Jorge
The People Movers bandmates risk everything to reunite Jorge, an immigrant refugee child, with the parents he's been separated from.
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Reading Level: 3.7
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Valerie Mason and the Damaris Academy, Book 3
It's an honor for a human to be invited into Galon Tir. Valerie is surprised to earn such an invite- she's still new to this world after all, and adjusting to its magic. But she's not about to refuse.
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Reading Level: 5.0
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Valerie Mason and the Damaris Academy, Book 2
It's never easy being the new girl, but Valerie isn't just entering a new school. She's in a world she never knew existed, enrolled in the first semester of a school unlike any before it.
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Middle School
Reading Level: 5.0
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Lily Azalea
Lily Azalea wants to stay with Molly Rose, who treats her almost as if she's a white girl too. When Lily's mother arranges for Lily to escape through the Underground Railroad, she doesn't want to go.
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Reading Level: 2.4
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Lucky Henry Walker: Hurricane Refugee
Meet Lucky Henry Walker: a real-life Hurricane Katrina canine refugee.
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Late Elementary
Reading Level: 2.2
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Late Elementary
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Luky and the Birdmen
When three unlikely companions are lost at sea, facing challenges no one even imagined, they realize they must work together to get home again—or die trying.
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A Skateboarding Story
Three friends, one rock, and a busted window—that's how everything changes.
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Darius Quinton Coleman: Boy Genius
Darius is a young mechanical genius, but are his talents enough to solve a real-life crime?
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Brother No More
This is a tale of tragedy and loss. A girl has died and her big brother feels responsible. Can any good come from something so terrible?
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Deaf Like Pluto
Pluto is different from other planets... kind of like Kaira is different from other people. She's all too familiar with how it feels to not fit in, but maybe things are about to change.
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Chance and Little Star
A teenage girl faces a life-or-death problem. No one can seem to help her, that is, until she meets a boy with autism who ends up changing her life forever.
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High School
Reading Level: 2.5
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Just Like That
All Tom wants to do is impress a girl. When he runs a red light, three lives change forever.
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Lulu Garlic, Contraband
In the midst of the Civil War, Lulu, an escaped slave, offers her time and services to treat those who've been injured. Among them, she finds the most unlikely of soldiers.
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Post High School
Reading Level: 2.7
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Becoming Beautiful
Brittney doesn't want to hurt her best friend Beauti's feelings, but there's no way Beauti can win the Miss Libertyville High Pageant. Shouldn't Beauti know?
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High School
Reading Level: 3.1
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Baby Teeth
For most children, growing up takes place over the course of years. For Simon, it's about to take place in three days.
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Reading Level: 2.5
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