Fifth grade becomes overwhelming for a girl who struggles with depression in Octopus Moon, a novel in verse by Bobbie Pyron.
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Meet three women who followed their scientific dreams in Green Promises: Girls Who Loved the Earth, by Jeannine Atkins.
A group of kids investigate the threat that prompted large-scale evacuations in Away, a companion novel to Megan E. Freeman’s Alone.
Renée Watson explores friendship, loss, and life with grief in All the Blues in the Sky, a new novel for upper middle-grade readers.
An immigrant girl defines her life in the US through her love of nature, music and poetry in Safe Harbor, by Padma Venkatraman.
A Black girl faces the complexities of race in Radiant a historical middle-grade novel in verse from multiple Coretta Scott King winner Vaunda Micheaux Nelson.
A girl thinks her dreams have come true when her family moves out of their van and into a house in Unsinkable Cayenne, by Jessica Vitalis.
An introverted girl struggles to speak up as worries begin to mount in Invisible Isabel, a new middle-grade novel by Sally J. Pla.
Poetry Comics, a new offering by Grant Snider, is a book that combines poetry and comics in a whole new way.
Aniana del Mar Jumps In, by Jasminne Mendez follows a 12-year-old Dominican American swimmer who is diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.