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The Circuit

von Francisco Jimenez

"'La frontera'...I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter California,...

Next to Mexico

von Jennifer Nails

When Lylice found out she was skipping fifth grade, she was excited. Then nervous. Then excited again. Then terrified. On her first day of sixth grade everything bad that could happen did. But when Senora Schwartz...

Mare's War

von Tanita S. Davis

Meet Mare, a grandmother with flair and a fascinating past.

Octavia and Tali are dreading the road trip their parents are forcing them to take with their grandmother over the summer. After all, Mare isn’t your...

Chickadee

von Louise Erdrich

Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, Chickadee is the first novel of a new arc in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich.

Twin...

The Last Snake Runner

von Kimberley Griffiths Little

Praise for The Last Snake Runner:

“The novel succeeds as a fast-paced adventure and as a meditation on the consequences of a clash of dissimilar cultures.”—School Library Journal

“Little’s strength is...

Horse Diaries #9: Tennessee Rose

von Jane Kendall & Astrid Sheckels

Alabama, 1856. Tennessee Rose is a dark bay Tennessee Walking Horse with a rose-shaped marking on her forehead. She loves dashing around the plantation in the running walk that her breed is famous for, then...

The Backyard Animal Show

von Sharon M. Draper & Jesse Joshua Watson

THE BLACK DINOSAURS TO THE RESCUE!

Ziggy, Rashawn, Jerome, and Rico are excited about watching the heavy machinery at the construction site for a new apartment complex -- until a doe is killed by a dump truck,...

Professor Tuesday's Awesome Adventures in History: Book One: Chief Pontiac's War

von Jeffery L L Schatzer

Miss Pepper’s class is going on a field trip to the local university. Once there, they meet the curious Professor Tuesday, the inventor of the Tuesday Teleporter and an expert on the famous Native American...

Austin & Charlie Adventures: Washington DC

von Linda Parker, Katie Langdon & Ariane Elsammak

Synopsis:

Austin the Sheltie and Charlie the Basset Hound are best friends who travel from one Tail Wagging Doggie Adventure to another in their Pawmobile, accompanied by their favorite toy, Mr. Stretchie....

Back to Me

von Earl Sewell

This is not how Maya Rogers hoped to get famous. First her boyfriend, Misalo, dumps her, and then the revealing photos that she sent to him go viral. Maya's reputation is in shreds, and now she's getting all...

What's in a Name

von Ellen Wittlinger

There's something brewing in the town of Scrub Harbor and it's not just about changing the name from Scrub Harbor to Folly Bay.

O'Neill has a secret. Adam is starting over. Christine has a crush. Gretchen has...

A la Carte

von Tanita S. Davis

SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD LAINEY DREAMS of becoming a world famous chef one day and maybe even having her own cooking show. (Do you know how many African American female chefs there aren’t? And how many vegetarian...

Ola Shakes It Up

von Joanne Hyppolite & Warren Chang

Moving? When Ola Benson's family leaves Roxbury in Boston to a house in the suburbs, Ola is sure her parents have made a big mistake.  What on Earth are they doing in Walcott--a historic, stuck-up town where...

Zigzag

von Ellen Wittlinger

A summer disappointment turns into a cross-country discovery.

Robin can't believe it when her boyfriend, Chris, tells her that his parents have enrolled him in a summer program in Rome. It's their last summer...

Dance of the Eggshells: Baile de los Cascarones

von Carla Aragón, Kathy Dee Saville & Socorro Aragón

A little girl and her brother are introduced to the Baile de los Cascarones in this charming bilingual story of family and cultural tradition.

How to Make a Cherry Pie and See the U.S.A.

von Marjorie Priceman

IN THIS EXUBERANT companion story to How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, our young baker sets her sights on a cherry pie. She heads off on a round-the-U.S.A. journey to find all the materials she needs...

Living Up The Street

von Gary Soto

In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we  see the world of growing up and going somewhere  through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial  side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the  barrio,...

Raleigh's Page

von Alan Armstrong & Tim Jessell

ANDREW HAS grown up near the Plymouth docks hearing the sailors talk about America. Knowing that Andrew's heart is set on going to the new world, his father sends him up to London to serve as page in the house...

Rogelia's House of Magic

von Jamie Martinez Wood

IN ROGELIA’S HOUSE OF MAGIC, three different 15-year-old girls find friendship and special powers as they are trained in the ways of the curandera by a wise old woman.

When Rogelia becomes a maid at Marina...

Becoming Chloe

von Catherine Ryan Hyde

Meet Jordy. He’s on his own in New York City. Nobody to depend on; nobody depending on him. And it’s been working fine.

Until this girl comes along. She’s 18 and blond and pretty–her world should be perfect....