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Words With Wings
by Nikki Grimes
When Gabby's parents separate, her tendency to daydream becomes essential to coping with life's difficuties, which only increase when she moves with her mother to a new home and a new school
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The Way a Door Closes
by Hope Anita Smith
A collection of poems focuses on thirteen-year-old C.J.'s struggle to cope with his father's disappearance
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Where Live
by Eileen Spinelli
Settled in just perfectly and living right next door to her best friend, Rose, Diana is unhappy when she is told that she has to move away from everything and everyone she knows, in a touching tale about love, loss, friendship, and change.
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Inside Out & Back Again
by Thanhha Lai
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama
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Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
by Katherine Rundell
Wilhelmina Silver lives half-wild on an African farm with her horse, her monkey and her best friend, but when her home is sold and Will is sent away to boarding school in England, the world becomes impossibly difficult—lions and hyenas are nothing compared to the packs of vicious schoolgirls she encounters. By the author of Rooftoppers.
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Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South.
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Locomotion
by Jacqueline Woodson
Having lost his parents in a fire and been placed in a foster home away from his little sister, Lili, Lonnie is forced to adjust to his new surroundings while coping with his loss on his own, thus, with the encouragement and help of a special teacher, he turns to poetry to help him express his feelings and make sense of it all.
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Jazmin's Notebook
by Nikki Grimes
This tale, set in Harlem in the 1960s, tells of a young girl's determination to overcome the difficulties she faces in her life, such as losing her father at an early age and watching her mother lie sick in the hospital, in order to reach the big goals she has in mind for her future. A Coretta Scott King Honor Book.
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Meet Danitra Brown
by Nikki Grimes
Zuri Jackson wants everyone to hear about her special friend, Danita Brown, and creates thirteen exciting rhymes in order to explain how "splendiferous" Danita truly is. Reprint. Corretta Scott King Award Honor Book.
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The Road to Paris
by Nikki Grimes
Inconsolable at being separated from her older brother, eight-year-old Paris is apprehensive about her new foster family but just as she learns to trust them, she faces a life-changing decision.
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