A House of Tailors
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Awards: Maine Student Book Master List, 2005
Bud, not Buddy
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Adult Readers
Awards: Newbery Award Winner; The Coretta Scott King Award, 2000; ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 1999; Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, 1999; School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 1999; ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 2000; ALA Notable Children’s Book, 2000; IRA Children’s Book Award for Older Readers, 2000
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Esperanza Rising
Author: Pam Munoz Ryan
Publisher: Scholastic (Pbk.)
Awards: Pura Belpre Medal; Jane Addams Children’s Book Award; The Willa Cather Award; Americas Award Honor Book; ALA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults; Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year; NY Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing; IRA Notable Book for a Global Society; NCSS Notable Book for Young People; Jefferson Cup Award Worthy of Note; Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist; Smithsonian Best Book of the Year; South California Judy Lopez Memorial Award; Arizona Young Adult Book Award
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Glory Be
Author: Augusta Scattergood
Publisher: Scholastic
Awards: Children’s Book Council Notable Social Studies Trade Book; SCBWI Crystal Kite Award, Southeast Region; Amazon’s Top 20 Middle Grade Books of 2012; Children’s Choice Awards List: FL, MD, MS, PA, TX, VT; 2013 Mississippi Author Award;
Children’s Choice Awards list: Florida, Maryland
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Katerina’s Wish
Author: Jeannie Mobley
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Awards: Colorado Book Award; Library of Congress 52 Great Reads List; NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing; William Allen White Children’s Book Award Master List (KS)
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May B: A Novel
Author: Caroline Starr Rose
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade, Random House Children’s Books
Awards: 2013 ALA Notable Children’s Book; 2013 Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year; Pen Center USA Children’s Literature Finalist; 2013 Amelia Bloomer Project Title; Publisher’s Weekly Spring 2012 Flying Start; 2012 NM-AZ Book Awards, Winner, Juvenile Division; American Booksellers Association 2012 Spring New Voices Title; Amazon’s Best Books of the Month for Kids: January 2012 Selection; Junior Library Guild Selection; Kids’ Indie Next List: Spring 2012; Kansas Notable Book 2013; New Mexico Battle of the Books Elementary School List (2014-2015); New Mexico Battle of the Books Middle School List (2014-2015)
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Moon Over Manifest
Author: Clare Vanderpool
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Awards: Newbery Medal, 2011
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One Crazy Summer
Author: Rita Garcia-Williams
Publisher: Amistad
Awards: Newbery Honor Book; Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction; Coretta Scott King Award; ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults; ALA Notable Children’s Book; National Book Award Finalist
Penny from Heaven
Author: Jennifer L. Holm
Publisher: Random House
Awards: 2007 Newbery Honor Book; ALA Notable Children’s Book; 2006 New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing List; Order Sons of Italy in America Summer Bookclub Selection
Refugee
Author: Alan Gratz
Publisher: Scholastic
Awards: 2018 Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Older Readers; 2018 National Jewish Book Award Winner for Young Adults; New York Times Notable Middle Grade Children’s Book 2017; 2018 YALSA Quick Pick for Young Readers; YALSA 2018 Best Fiction for Young Adults; 2017 Cybils Middle Grade Fiction Award Winner; 2018 Judy Lopez Memorial Award Winner; 2018 Indies Choice/E.B. White Read-Aloud Award Finalist; 2018 NCTE Charlotte Huck Outstanding Fiction for Children Honor Book; 2017 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature Honor Book; Global Read Aloud Book 2018; 2018 Notable Book for a Global Society; Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Historical Books of 2017; Publishers Weekly Best Middle Grade Books of 2017; NPR’s Book Concierge Great Reads of 2017; Southern Living Best Children’s Books of 2017; Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Books Best Books of 2017; New York Public Library Top 100 Best Books for Kids 2017; Chicago Public Library Kids Best Fiction for Older Readers 2017; Amazon Top 20 Best Children’s Books of 2017; ABC Best Books for Young Readers 2017; A Junior Library Guild Selection; 2019 Oklahoma Sequoyah Intermediate Book Award Winner; 2018-2019 Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Grade 6-8 Winner; 2018-2019 Maine Student Book Award Winner; 2018-2019 Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Winner; 2019 NC Children’s Book Award Winner; 2018-2019 Lectio Book Award Winner; 2019 North Dakota Flicker Tale Book Award Winner
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Rooftoppers
Author: Katherine Rundell
Illustrator: Terry Fan
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (Pbk.)
Awards: ALA Notable Children’s Books; Capitol Choices (DC); Great Stone Face Book Award Master List (NH); Oregon Battle of the Books List
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Author: Brian Selznick
Illustrator: Brian Selznick
Publisher: Scholastic
Awards: Caldecott Medal (2007); Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Children’s Literature; ALA Notable Book for Middle Readers; ALA Best Book for Young Adults, 2008; Quill Award Winner: Children’s Chapter/Middle Reader (2007); IRA Teachers’ Choices, Intermediate (2008); Book Sense – Book of the Year Award 2008, Children’s Literature; Kirkus Reviews – Best Children’s Books 2007; Publishers Weekly – Best Children’s Books 2007, Children’s Fiction; HornBook Fanfare List – Best Books of 2007 Fiction; CCBC Choices 2008, Fiction for Children; IRA Children’s Choices, Grades 5-6; Book Sense Children’s Picks – Spring 2007
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The Lovely Shoes
Author: Susan Shreve
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
The Mighty Miss Malone
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Random House
Awards: Amazon Best Books of the Months for Kids, January 2012; National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Gold Award
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Author: Rodman Philbrick
Publisher: Scholastic (Pbk.)
Awards: 2010 Newbery Honor Book; Maine Lupine Award
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The Red Rose Box
Author: Brenda Woods
Publisher: Penguin
Awards: 2003 Coretta Scott King Honor Book; Judy Lopez Memorial Award 2003; FOCAL Award 2005
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The Romeo and Juliet Code
Author: Phoebe Stone
Publisher: Scholastic/Levine
Awards: The Boston Globe Top 10 Children’s Books of the Year 2011
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The War That Saved My Life
Author: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Illustrator: NA
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Awards: 2016 Newbery Honor Book; Schneider Family Book Award (Middle School) 2016; Odyssey Award 2016; Wall Street Journal Best Children’s Books of 2015; New York Public Library’s 100 Books for Reading and Sharing; Josette Frank Award Winner; Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books 2015; Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2015; Kirkus Best Books of 2015; Horn Book Fanfare Book 2015
The Wolf Wilder
Author: Katherine Rundell
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Awards: Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year Selection Title; Kansas State Reading Circle List Intermediate Title; Wisconsin State Reading Association’s Reading List
Turtle in Paradise
Author: Jennifer L. Holm
Publisher: Random House Children’s Books
Awards: 2011 Newbery Honor Book; An ALA Notable Book; Booklist Editor’s Choice; Chicago Library Best of the Best; Texas Bluebonnet List; A Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Book of 2010; Spring 2010 Junior Library Guild Selection