IRA Children's Book Award
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A deeply felt, deeply personal story of immigration from beloved Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse.
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Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green...
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Winner, Arab American National Museum Book Award for Children's/YA Literature, among other awards and honors.
“When a war ends it does not go away,” my...
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This inspiring memoir illuminates a dark time in China’s history through the compelling story of one teenager’s difficult, but determined, coming of age....
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In a small village in Spain
lives a boy named Antoni Gaudí.
His home is in Catalonia, a place of jagged mountain peaks and silvery olive trees, splashed...
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"Details place the affecting story in a real, not idealized, America." --Kirkus Reviews
"It’s the last day of the newspaper drive and Nim, a...
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A beautifully written story about the power of friendship in the face of racism
Jo Clawson isn’t the boy her father wanted, and she’s not the young “lady”...
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A lyrical account of the life of Juan Francisco Manzano, the poet slave of Cuba, in verse
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Witness loving, working hands in action in this vivid portrait of life in a Maya village.
"Grandmother Apolonia has gone to market for the day to weave and...
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How to survive being good
Like a flashback memory, he’s there in my mind: skimming up the stairs at school, his sloppy old T-shirt big as a sail, red...
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Time to get up!
Did you ever wonder how people woke up in time for school
or work in the days before alarm clocks? In the early twentieth century,...
Wise Guy
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Greek philosophy for kids
“I know that I know nothing.”
With this classic statement, uttered over two thousand years ago, Socrates set the standard for...
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