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| Bone Talk by Candy GourlayWhat it’s about: In 1899, just before the coming-of-age ceremony that will make Samkad a warrior, change arrives in his Bontoc village in the form of Kinyo, a boy who speaks a strange language and brings news of dangerous newcomers called “Americans.”
Is it for you? Set in a Bontoc village during the U.S. invasion of the Philippines, Bone Talk doesn’t shy away from the violence of war, and offers a Filipino point-of-view that you might not get in history class. |
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Allies
by Alan Gratz
Racing toward the French coast along with his brothers-in-arms, a terrified World War II soldier from America participates in the top-secret D-Day operation, while a young French spy works to sabotage German occupiers and a paratrooper orchestrates a daring midnight raid.
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Almost American Girl : An Illustrated Memoir
by Robin Ha
Moving abruptly from Seoul to Alabama, a Korean teen struggles in a hostile blended home and a new school where she does not speak English before forging unexpected connections in a local comic drawing class.
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Bouncing Back
by Scott Ostler
Struggling to adapt to life in a wheelchair, a 13-year-old former basketball champion joins a wheelchair league that challenges him to embrace new friends and skills in order to save the gym from being closed. A first novel.
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Tbh, I Feel the Same
by Lisa Greenwald
Pursuing respective interests with the swim team, school play and poetry club, BFFs Cece, Gabby and Prianka find their bond tested by classmates who discriminately rank others according to their looks, smarts and popularity.
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From the Desk of Zoe Washington
by Janae Marks
Receiving an unexpected letter on her 12th birthday from the incarcerated father she has never met, a courageous young baker prepares for a cooking-show competition while scrambling to determine her father’s innocence.
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Martin McLean, Middle School Queen
by Alyssa Zaczek
Seventh-grader Martin McLean has trouble expressing himself except at Mathletes competitions and, now, as a female impersonator but his first-ever drag show falls on the same night as an important Mathletes tournament.
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Clean Getaway
by Nic Stone
An 11-year-old boy confronts the realities of race relations, past and present, and the mysterious agenda of his unconventional grandmother during an unplanned spring break road trip through the once-segregated American South. By the award-winning author of Dear Martin.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 10-13!
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