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The first rule of punk
Lucky broken girl
Marcus Vega doesn't speak Spanish
The moon within
Esperanza rising
Me, Frida, and the secret of the peacock ring

Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month

Anne W
The night tiger
Circe : a novel
Long bright river
All Adults Here
The whisper man
Rodham : a novel

Summer Reading 2020

Mari
Logan likes Mary Anne!
Shirley & Jamila
The last kids on Earth and the skeleton road
Three keys
The puppet's payback and other chilling tales
The canyon's edge

BRAND NEW HIGH INTEREST MIDDLE GRADE (3-6th GRADE) BOOKS I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anne W
The wedding date
A duke, the lady, and a baby
The boyfriend project
The worst best man : a novel
Get a life, Chloe Brown : a novel
Forbidden promises

Black Lives Matter: Romance

Anne W
Stargazing
Be prepared
Cassandra, animal psychic
Akissi : tales of mischief
American born Chinese
Princeless.

Read Woke Comics and Graphic Novels for Middle Grade Readers

Casey
Brown girl dreaming
This promise of change : one girl's story in the fight for school equality
Child of the dream : a memoir of 1963
Reach for the Skai : how to inspire, empower, and clapback
Marley Dias gets it done : and so can you!
Reaching for the Moon : the autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson

Black Lives Matter: Middle Grade Memoirs and Biographies

Anne W
The teenage brain : a neuroscientist's survival guide to raising adolescents and young adults
Inventing ourselves : the secret life of the teenage brain
Grown and flown : how to support your teen, stay close as a family, and raise independent adults
Reviving Ophelia : saving the selves of adolescent girls
Why do they act that way? : a survival guide to the adolescent brain for you and your teen
A new theory of teenagers : seven transformational strategies to empower you and your teen

Parenting Teens

Anne W
I can make this promise
The birchbark house
How I became a ghost : a Choctaw Trail of Tears story
In the footsteps of Crazy Horse
Stone River crossing
Dactyl Hill Squad

American Indian, First Nations, and Alaska Native Voices: Middle Grade (3rd-6th) and Young Adult (7th-12th) Fiction and Nonfiction Books

Anne W
Sharks and other deadly ocean creatures : visual encyclopedia
Sharks : nature's perfect hunter
If sharks disappeared
Smart about sharks
Swimming with sharks : the daring discoveries of Eugenie Clark
Everything sharks

Celebrate Shark Week!: Books for Elementary-Age Readers

Anne W
Preaching to the chickens : the story of young John Lewis
Pies from nowhere : how Georgia Gilmore sustained the Montgomery bus boycott
Schomburg : the man who built a library
Whoosh! : Lonnie Johnson's super-soaking stream of inventions
Ona Judge outwits the Washingtons : an enslaved woman fights for freedom
Harlem's little blackbird

Black Lives Matter: Picture Book Biographies

Casey
Dim sum for everyone!
Shades of black : a celebration of our children
We All Count: A Book of Cree Numbers
Baby goes to market
Holi colors
Baby says

Read Woke, Board Books

Casey
The new wilderness
This mournable body : a novel
The mirror & the light
Apeirogon : a novel
The shadow king : a novel
Such a fun age : a novel

Booker Prize 2020 longlist

Brian