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...

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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...

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Published: Aug 2003

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.

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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...

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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

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...

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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...

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Published: Feb 2009

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

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

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...

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Published: Apr 2010

In Arctic Waters

Laura Crawford

An arctic adaptation of "This is the House that Jack Built" follows polar bears, walruses, seals, narwhals and beluga whales as they chase each other around "the ice that floats in the Arctic waters." Not only is t...

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Published: Feb 2013

Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky

Sandra Dallas

It's 1942: Tomi Itano, 12, is a second-generation Japanese American who lives in California with her family on their strawberry farm. Although her parents came from Japan and her grandparents still live there, Tomi considers herself a...

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Published: Feb 2015

Forged by Fire

Sharon M. Draper

The flame of love burns bright in the second book of Sharon M. Draper's award-winning Hazelwood High trilogy, now in trade paperback with a new cover.When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. But fire is dangerous and powerfu...

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Published: Sep 2013

Chickadee

Louise Erdrich

Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, Chickadee is the first novel of a new arc in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich.Twin brothers Chickadee and Mako...

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Published: Aug 2013

The Vanderbeekers Make a Wish (The Va...

Karina Yan Glaser

Witness the power of family history and family love in this funny, poignant addition to a series that the New York Times Book Reviewhails as “delightful and heartwarming.” It’s summer on 141st Street, and the Vander...

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Published: Sep 2022

Inside Out and Back Again

Thanhha Lai

For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached he...

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Published: Jan 2013

Tristan Strong Destroys the World (A ...

Kwame Mbalia

Bestselling author Rick Riordan presents the second book in the New York Times best-selling and award-winning Tristan Strong trilogy by Kwame Mbalia, now in paperback."Mbalia's universe continues to excite through sheer conceptual br...

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Published: Oct 2021

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the ...

Kwame Mbalia

Winner of a Coretta Scott King Author Honor\r\n\r\nBest-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia\'s epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and Wes...

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Published: Sep 2020

The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramo...

Alexander McCall Smith

THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY - Young ReadersFans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective...

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Published: Jan 2012

When I Was the Greatest

Jason Reynolds

In Bed Stuy, New York, a small misunderstanding can escalate into having a price on your head—even if you're totally clean. This gritty, triumphant debut that Publishers Weekly calls "a funny and rewarding read" captures t...

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Published: Jan 2015

Written in the Stars

Aisha Saeed

A heart-wrenching tale of forbidden love'A wonderfully complex love story unlike any you've read before. Saeed has given a novel that is both entertaining and important."—Matt de la Peña, New York Times bestselling author Nai...

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Published: May 2016
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