November 2020 list by L. Buehler
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The Blackbird Girls
by Anne Blankman
Relocating to Leningrad in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, two girls who have been taught to hate each other because of religious differences uncover painful family secrets while learning what it means to trust another person.
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Diana: Princess of the Amazons
by Shannon Hale
Eleven-year-old Diana, the gangly, sometimes clumsy, only child on the island of Themyscira, struggles to live up to the high Amazonian standards and longs for someone her own age whom she can talk to.
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Echo Mountain
by Lauren Wolk
Losing her home in the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929, Ellie moves with her family to a new home in an unforgiving mountain terrain where she seeks a cure to restore her injured father to health.
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On the Horizon
by Lois Lowry
The two-time Newbery Medal-winning author of the Giver Quartet explores the human stories behind World War II’s Pearl Harbor attack and Hiroshima bombing to contemplate what victims share in common and the importance of bridging cultural divides.
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Parked
by Danielle Svetcov
Living in an old orange van when her mother is unable to find work, 12-year-old Jeanne Ann befriends the son of a successful restaurant owner and a remarkable group of homeless fellow misfits whose perspectives shape her hardscrabble existence.
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Race Around the World
by RH Disney
All the world's a racetrack as superstar Lightning McQueen zooms into action, with his best friend Mater in tow, to take on the globe's fastest and finest in Disney/Pixar Cars 2.
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Some Places More than Others
by Renée Watson
Amara visits her father's family in Harlem for her twelfth birthday, hoping to better understand her family and herself, but New York City is not what she expected.
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Stuck Together
by Brian Smith
Like all peas, Pea loves to roll. So when a no-good strawberry dares him to roll all the way off the farm, he swears he can do it—eazy me-zee! But along the way, a powerful thunderstorm strikes and bounces Pea off course...and right into two unlikely new buds: a bee named Bee who thinks she knows it all, and a bird named Jay who can't figure out how to fly. On their own they may not look like much, but if this trio can stick together, they just might help Pea find his way back home!
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Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing
by Tonya Bolden
A sumptuously illustrated compilation of 15 historical speeches that have shaped and defined freedom in America provides comprehensive explanations and includes Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” and Sojourner Truth’s “I Am a Woman’s Rights.”
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Tristan Strong Destroys the World
by Kwame Mbalia
A sequel to Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky finds an exhausted Tristan Strong returning to Alke and reuniting with sidekick Gum Baby when his grandmother is abducted by an unknown, vengeance-seeking culprit.
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When Stars are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson
A Somali refugee who spent his childhood at the Dadaab camp and the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl present the graphic-novel story of a young refugee who struggles with leaving behind his nonverbal brother when he has an opportunity to help his family by going to school.
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