Children & Young Adults Fiction - People & Places

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The Name Jar

Yangsook Choi

The new kid in school needs a new name! Or does she?Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what about when nobody can pronounce your name? Having just moved from Korea, Unhei is anxious that American kids will like her. So in...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2003

The Birchbark House (Birchbark House,...

Louise Erdrich

This National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling 100 years in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior blac...

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Published: Nov 2021

Jamaica's Blue Marker

Juanita Havill

Jamaica was friends with everyone in school - except for Russell. No wonder: Russell was a mean brat. When they had art class, Russell borrowed her markers and spoiled her picture. At recess, he threw sand and chased little kids. Jama...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2003

Becoming Muhammad Ali (Becoming Ali (...

James Patterson

From two heavy-hitters in children's literature comes a biographical novel of cultural icon Muhammad Ali.Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. Kwame Alexander and James Patterson join fo...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2020

A Day's Work

Eve Bunting

Francisco, a young Mexican-American boy, helps his grandfather find work as a gardener, even though the old man cannot speak English and knows nothing about gardening.

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Published: Jan 1994

All the Colors of the Earth (Mulberry...

Sheila Hamanaka

Celebrate the colors of children and the colors of love--not black or white or yellow or red, but roaring brown, whispering gold, tinkling pink, and more.

Paperback
Published: Sep 1999

The Year of the Dog

Grace Lin

It's the Chinese Year of the Dog, and as Pacy celebrates with her family, she finds out that this is the year she is supposed to 'find herself.' Universal themes of friendship, family, and finding one's life passions make this novel a...

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Published: May 2007

The Lotus Seed

Sherry Garland

When she is forced to leave Vietnam, a young girl brings a lotus seed with her to America in remembrance of her homeland. Reprint. Reading Rainbow. PW. AB.

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Published: Feb 1997

Grandfather Counts (Reading Rainbow B...

Andrea Cheng

When Helen's grandfather, Gong Gong, comes from China to live with her family, he's shocked to find that none of his grandchildren speak Chinese. How will he communicate with them? At first he keeps to himself. Then one day he joins H...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2003

Good Night Martha's Vineyard (Good Ni...

Megan Weeks Adams

Many of North America's most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these boardbooks designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the continent's natural and cultural wonders. Each book st...

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Published: May 2007

Dragons in a Bag

Zetta Elliott

The dragon's out of the bag in this diverse, young urban fantasy from an award-winning author--with two starred reviews!When Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, he finds out she's not his grandmoth...

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Published: Aug 2019

The Game of Silence

Louise Erdrich

Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior.It is 1850 and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm: they build their birchbark houses in the su...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2005

Jason & Kyra

Dana Davidson

Kyra Evans isn't popular, or a girl who you stare at when you are walking down the hall. So why can't Jason-basketball star and the hottest guy in school-get her out of his head?Under normal circumstances, Jason and Kyra would live in...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2005

Julie

Jean Craighead George

Julie's decision to return home to her people is not an easy one. But after many months in the wilderness, living in harmony with the wolves that saved her life, she knows the time has come. Julie is not prepared, however, for all th...

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Published: Feb 1996

The Year of Miss Agnes (Aladdin Histo...

Kirkpatrick Hill

A year they'll never forget Ten-year-old Frederika (Fred for short) doesn't have much faith that the new teacher in town will last very long. After all, they never do. Most teachers who come to their one-room schoolhouse in remote, ...

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Published: May 2002

Game

Walter Dean Myers

Drew Lawson knows basketball is taking him places. It has to, because his grades certainly aren't. But lately his plan has run squarely into a pick. Coach's new offense has made another player a star, and Drew won't let anyone disres...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2009

Elijah of Buxton

Christopher Paul Curtis

Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. He’s best known in his hometown as the boy who made a memorable impression on Frede...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2008

Little Town on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder Read by author A classis story is brought on life on audio complete and unabridged for the first time.The little settlement that weathered the long, hard winter of 1880-81 is now a growing town. Laura is growing u...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2005

The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern...

Jane Yolen

Hannah thinks tonight's Passover Seder will be the same as always. Little does she know that this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past where only she knows the horrors that await.

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Published: Oct 1990

High Tide in Hawaii (Magic Tree House...

Mary Pope Osborne

When the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie off to Hawaii it's for more than a vacation–they're in search of a fourth kind of magic for Morgan! On the way they help an island community survive a tidal wave and, of course, take s...

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Published: Mar 2003

Canyons

Gary Paulsen

Two boys, separated by the canyons of time and two vastly different cultures, face the challenges by which they become men.Coyote Runs, an Apache boy, takes part in his first raid--the one that will usher him into manhood. He is to be...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2009

The Tiger Rising

Kate Dicamillo

Kate DCamillo's first novel Because of Winn-Dixie won a Newbery Honor in 2000 for the no-nonsense charm and wisdom of its down-home young heroine, Opal. Also set in Florida, The Tiger Rising is more of a short story in scope, the t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2006

Chike and the River

Chinua Achebe

The more Chike saw the ferry-boats the more he wanted to make the trip to Asaba. But where would he get the money? He did not know. Still, he hoped.Eleven-year-old Chike longs to cross the Niger River to the city of Asaba, but he does...

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Published: Aug 2011

Harbor Me

Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's LiteratureJacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2018

The Witch Family

Eleanor Estes

Amy and Clarissa are two girls who love to draw pictures of witches and then create elaborate stories about their lives. However, one witch Amy and Clarissa draw seems to have real magical powers and before too long Amy and Clarissa f...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2007

The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramo...

Alexander McCall Smith

Have you ever said to yourself, Wouldn't it be nice to be a detective? This is the story of an African girl who says just that. Her name is Precious. When a piece of cake goes missing from her classroom, a traditionally built young ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2012

Locomotion

Jacqueline Woodson

Eleven-year-old Lonnie lives with Miss Edna, who is always telling him to be quiet. But there's a lot going on in Lonnie's head. His English teacher, Ms Marcus, encourages him to write everything down, quickly, before his thoughts dis...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2012

A Step from Heaven

Na An

From master storyteller An Na comes the Printz Award–winning novel about a Korean girl who tells her firsthand account of trying to find her place and identity in America from the day she leaves Korea as a child to her rocky journey...

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Published: Jul 2016

Caught Up in the Drama

ReShonda Tate Billingsley

The seventh book in The Good Girlz series from national bestselling author ReShonda Tate BillingsleyShe's in the spotlight . . .The Good Girlz have always known their girlfriend Camille is a gifted dancer. But when she wins the Search...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2010

Talking Leaves

Joseph Bruchac

A new work of historical fiction about Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee alphabet, from the acclaimed author of Code Talker Thirteen-year-old Uwohali has not seen his father, Sequoyah, for many years. So when Sequoyah returns...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2016
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