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Growing Up Pedro (Candlewick Biographies)

By Tavares, Matt
Biography; Nonfiction
Upper Elementary
9 Professional reviews

Refugee

By Gratz, Alan
Fiction
Middle School
12 Professional reviews
Resources Available

Finding Someplace

By Patrick, Denise Lewis
Fiction
Middle School
9 Professional reviews

Ghost (Track, Book 1)

By Reynolds, Jason
Fiction
Middle School
11 Professional reviews

The Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 (I Survived, Book 14)

By Tarshis, Lauren
Fiction
Upper Elementary

Saint Louis Armstrong Beach

By Woods, Brenda
Fiction
Middle School
10 Professional reviews

The Joplin Tornado, 2011 (I Survived, Book 12)

By Tarshis, Lauren
Fiction
Upper Elementary
2 Professional reviews
Resources Available

I Am Malala : How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

By Yousafzai, Malala
Autobiography; Nonfiction
Middle School
3 Professional reviews
Resources Available

Jim Thorpe : Original All-American

By Bruchac, Joseph
Fiction
Middle School
9 Professional reviews

Serafina's Promise : a Novel in Verse

By Burg, Ann E
Fiction
Middle School
11 Professional reviews

Separate Is Never Equal : Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation

By Tonatiuh, Duncan
Nonfiction
Lower Elementary
12 Professional reviews

How I Became a Ghost : A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story (How I Became A Ghost, Book 1)

By Tingle, Tim
Fiction
Upper Elementary
5 Professional reviews

Stella By Starlight

By Draper, Sharon M
Fiction
Middle School
13 Professional reviews
Resources Available

The Destruction of Pompeii, Ad 79 (I Survived, Book 10)

By Tarshis, Lauren
Fiction
Upper Elementary
1 Professional review

Ninth Ward

By Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Fiction
Middle School
16 Professional reviews
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Catching the Moon : the Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream

By Hubbard, Crystal
Biography; Nonfiction
Lower Elementary
7 Professional reviews

Boys Without Names

By Sheth, Kashmira
Fiction
Middle School
8 Professional reviews

Return to Sender

By Alvarez, Julia
Fiction
Upper Elementary
14 Professional reviews

Earthquake Terror

By Kehret, Peg
Fiction
Middle School
8 Professional reviews

Black Brother, Black Brother

By Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Fiction
Upper Elementary
9 Professional reviews

The Children's Blizzard, 1888 (I Survived, Book 16)

By Tarshis, Lauren
Fiction
Upper Elementary

Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World

By Blake, Ashley Herring
Fiction
Upper Elementary
10 Professional reviews

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom : My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

By Lowery, Lynda Blackmon
Nonfiction
Young Adult
12 Professional reviews

Heart and Soul : the Story of America and African Americans

By Nelson, Kadir
Nonfiction
Upper Elementary
26 Professional reviews

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