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Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Language
English
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Black Lives Matter: Elementary Stories
Newbery Medal Award Winners
Novels in Verse: Middle Grade
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Newbery Medal Award Winners
Novels in Verse: Middle Grade
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Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Struggling with ADHD, loneliness, and connecting with his divorced father who would rather see him embrace sports instead of cooking, sixth-grader Elliott finds an unlikely friend in popular, perfect Maribel when the two are paired in a school-wide contest.
Author
Language
English
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations
2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations E-Books and E-Audiobooks
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations E-Books and E-Audiobooks
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
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ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.--
Author
Series
Game changers volume 1
Language
English
Description
When the coach's son, Shawn O'Brien, is chosen to play quarterback, eleven-year-old Ben McBain is not surprised--but when he tries to be a good teammate and help the inconsistent Shawn, he is startled to learn that his new friend does not really want the position.
Author
Series
Storm runner volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Zane Obispo faces an impossible choice--to save other godborns like himself from the angry gods, or rescue his father, Hurakan, from his eternal prison.--
Author
Series
Garvey novels (Nikki Grimes) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading--anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This relatable story from award-winning author-illustrator Hyewon Yum explores the universal fear of first haircuts with honesty, tenderness, and humor. Little lion needs a haircut. But he doesn't want one! Is he worried? No. Is he scared? NO! He just likes his hair the way it is. R-O-A-R! But there's someone else who needs a haircut, too...it's Dad, and he doesn't want one, either! Maybe if they go to the barbershop together, there will be nothing...
10) The storm runner
Author
Series
Storm runner volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Latinx Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Latinx Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Rick Riordan Presents
Latinx Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Rick Riordan Presents
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Description
To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects him to his father and his ancestry.
11) Tadpoles
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
On a rainy morning, a father and son bond over a walk through a field full of freshly formed ponds teeming with tadpoles.
12) Replay
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up. Includes the text for the play, "Rumpopo's Porch" by Bill Beeber.
13) The bear's song
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Papa Bear wakes up to find his son missing, and his search leads him to an opera house and a command performance.
14) Applesauce
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
15) Eruption
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase and his friend Nicole Rossi attempt to rescue the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants, and all--in Mexico, where a massive earthquake has struck, leading to the imminent eruption of a volcano.
17) Hero
Author
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 4 & 5
Indigenous Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Indigenous Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Indigenous Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Indigenous Authors: Books for Middle Grade
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Description
After being caught stealing one too many times, Benjamin Waterfalls is sent to a "boot camp" at the Ojibwe reservation where he searches for answers as he tries to turn his life around and embrace this second chance.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"On a snowy island, a little boy waits and watches while his father sails out on one last fishing trip. As the snow becomes a blizzard and then a powerful storm, the little boy must find his father. But when he needs help, who will save him?" -- From dust jacket.
20) Dream dog
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Harry cannot have the dog he desperately wants because of his father's sensitive nose, so he uses his X-35 Infra-Rocket Imagination Helmet to create Waffle, the dog of his dreams.
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