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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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Coretta Scott King Honor author Varian Johnson teams up with rising cartoonist Shannon Wright for a delightful middle-grade graphic novel!
Maureen and Francine Carter are twins and best friends. They participate in the same clubs, enjoy the same foods, and are partners on all their school projects. But just before the girls start sixth grade, Francine becomes Fran — a girl who wants to join the chorus, run for class president, and...Author
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New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 2
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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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New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. This time, it's Jordan's friend Drew who takes center stage in another laugh-out-loud funny, powerful, and important story about being one of the few kids of color in a prestigious private school.
Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no
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Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!
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Black Lives Matter: Books to Start a Conversation
Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices with Marley Dias
Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices with Marley Dias
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Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
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Lucy's grandpa has always taught her the importance of treating others the way you would want to be treated, and that it's okay to be different. When Lucy's classmate Ralph starts teasing her at school, Lucy makes a very courageous decision to stand up for herself and what she believes.
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Rayo/Greenwillow Books
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[2007]
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English
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Sumario en español: El texto paralelo en español e inglés presenta a Margaret y Margarita, que se reflejan la una a la otra mientras se peinan, saludan a sus amigos, y hacen otras actividades rutinarias, cada una a su propia manera especial.
Parallel text in Spanish and English portrays Margaret and Margarita, who mirror one another as they fix their hair, greet their friends, and engage in other routine activities, each in her own special way....
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I am Otter volume 4
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2016]
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English
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When Otter starts a school, Teddy becomes sad because the other students are all good at something and it seems he is not.
12) Fancy Nancy
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A young girl who loves fancy things helps her family to be fancy for one special night.
13) Jake and Lily
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2012.
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"Jake and Lily are twins and have always felt the same--like two halves of one person--but the year they turn eleven and Jake begins hanging out with Bump Stubbins, everything changes"--
14) The art lesson
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Putnam
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[1989]
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English
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Having learned to be creative in drawing pictures at home, young Tommy is dismayed when he goes to school and finds the art lesson there much more regimented.
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English
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Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids in her school don't like them and Camilla is very, very worried about what her classmates think of her. In fact, she is so worried that she's about to break out in ...a bad case of stripes and worse until the day arrives when she no longer recognizes herself.
16) Lost and found
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English
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Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
18) A girl like me
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2020.
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"Empower young readers to embrace their individuality, reject societal limitations, and follow their dreams. This inspiring picture book brings together a poem by acclaimed author Angela Johnson and Nina Crews's distinctive photocollage illustrations to celebrate girls of color" --
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Marisol McDonald volume 1
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English
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Marisol McDonald, a biracial, nonconformist, soccer-playing pirate-princess with brown skin and red hair, celebrates her uniqueness.
20) A dog is a dog
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Using various animals as examples, this rhyming picture book explores what makes them the same and what makes them different.
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