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1) Trash
Author
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.
4) Omar rising
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2022-2023 Middle School TAB Nominations
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
TAB 2023: Gunston
TAB 2023: Swanson
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
TAB 2023: Gunston
TAB 2023: Swanson
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Description
"Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the coldest season, when the world feels scary -- what do you remember about being warm? Baked potatoes. Trust. A kettle on the stove. Blankets. A smile. And, most of all, the reassurance that you belong. In his powerful and moving poem, featuring illustrations from thirteen extraordinary artists, bestselling author and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Neil Gaiman draws together many different memories to answer the question, 'what do you need to...
6) Tight times
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
A small boy, not allowed to have a dog because times are tight, finds a starving kitten in a trash can on the same day his father loses his job.
9) Scrawl
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When eighth-grade school bully Tod and his friends get caught committing a crime on school property, his penalty--staying after school and writing in a journal under the eye of the school guidance counsellor--reveals aspects of himself that he prefers to keep hidden.
10) No place
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Dan and his parents can no longer pay their mortgage, they end up homeless and living in a local tent city. It's a bad situation, and it only gets worse when the leader of the tent city is brutally beaten. Who is trying to shut down the tent city, and why?"--
11) As time went by
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Once upon a time there was a ship that sailed beside the sun with very important people on board. The spirit of reinvention and the importance we place on things is beautifully expressed in José Sanabria's visually evocative story. A steamship makes a journey across time from luxury and exclusivity, industry and abandonment, to stewardship and inclusion as we see the evolving functions of the ship and the changing faces of the people who cherish...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression six-year-old Marvel, her seven siblings, and their mother find a tar-paper shack in the woods and, over the course of a year, turn it into a home. Based on the author's grandmother's childhood; includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Fern helps to take care of her impoverished family by foraging for food in the forest, but when a fracking company rolls into town, she realizes that her peaceful woods and her family's livelihood could be threatened"--
14) Curiosity
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1835, when his father's put in a Philadelphia debtor's prison, 12-year-old chess prodigy Rufus Goodspeed is relieved to be recruited to secretly operate a chess-playing automaton named The Turk, but soon questions the fate of his predecessors and his own safety.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After her father's landscaping business fails and the family loses their house, sixth-grader Griselda Zaragoza follows her sister's example and begins selling Alma cosmetics while hiding her changed circumstances from friends.
17) The lucky ones
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1967, and eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown has big dreams. He's going to grow up to be a teacher or a lawyer--or maybe both--and live in a big brick house in town. There'll always be enough food in the icebox, and his mama won't have to run herself ragged looking for work as a maid in order to support Ellis Earl and his eight siblings and niece, Vera. So Ellis Earl applies himself at school, soaking up the lessons that Mr. Foster teaches his...
19) The immortal boy
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Latinx Authors: Books for Teens
Teen Books in Translation
Translated Novellas
Latinx Authors: Books for Teens
Teen Books in Translation
Translated Novellas
Description
"Two intertwining stories of Bogotá. One, a family of five children, left to live on their own. The other, a girl in an orphanage who will do anything to befriend the mysterious Immortal Boy"--
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