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| Rebound by Kwame AlexanderWhat it's about: It's the summer of 1988, and 12-year-old Charlie Bell is grieving the sudden death of his dad while visiting with his tough-love grandparents and getting schooled on the basketball court by his cousin Roxie.
Why you might like it: Comics-style illustrations and page-turning poetry give Rebound all the joyful intensity of a well-played pick-up game.
Series alert: You don't need to have read The Crossover to enjoy this prequel. |
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| Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker RhodesWhat it's about: One minute, 12-year-old Jerome is messing around with his friend's toy gun; the next, he's been shot by a white police officer, and he joins the ghosts of Emmett Till and other black boys who lost their lives to racist violence -- and who now spend their afterlives seeking justice and healing.
Why you should read it: Painful, poetic, and powerful, Ghost Boys is sure to spark emotions and start conversations. |
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Whatshisface by Gordon KormanTwelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet
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Dragon On Trial by Tui SutherlandSeventh graders Zoe and Logan investigate a missing goose who lays golden eggs, a disappearance they believe is being wrongly blamed on a hungry dragon.
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The Ice Castle : An Adventure In Music by Pendred NoyceThe return to Lexicon begins when thirteen-year-old cousins Ivan and Daphne find their Aunt Adelaide deathly ill. Leaving their aunt to rest, Ivan and Daphne accidentally let their younger cousin, Lila, in on their secret world of Lexicon. Ivan and Daphne must track Lila, who disappears, through the frozen landscape to the Land of Winter where social status and freedom is determined by how well one sings. Fortunately for Lila, her musical talent lands her in the most favorable place. Separated by class now, the cousins face the cold, hunger, poverty, illness, injustice, and the malicious plotting of a power-hungry blind man. Slave, servant, and fine lady, the three cousins must escape their own imprisonment before they reunite, provoke a revolution, and restore spring to the Land of Winter. Book includes discussion questions, challenge activities, and cross-curricular activities.
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Echo by Pam Muñoz RyanLost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caughtup in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
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Dave At Night by Gail Carson LevineWhen orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys in 1926, where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance. An ALA Notable Book.
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In 1203 Gatty, a girl with the singing voice of an angel, and her eight companions set out on a great pilgrimage across Europe towards Jerusalem.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 10-13!
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