Breaking Stalin's Nose Echo The Girl Who Drank the Moon By Eugene Yelchin By Pam Munoz Ryan By Kelly Barnhill In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten- Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Communist, but when police take his father in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica-- Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced and decades later three children, Friedrich in magic buried deep inside her. to examine his own perceptions, values, and Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in beliefs. California find themselves caught up in the Heart of a Samurai same thread of destiny in the darkest days of By Margi Preus Brown Girl Dreaming the twentieth century, struggling to keep In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after By Jacqueline Woodson their families intact, and tied together by the a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four The author shares her childhood memories music of the same harmonica. companions castaways on a remote island, and reveals the first sparks that ignited her fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of writing career in free-verse poems about El Deafo becoming a samurai, learns new laws and growing up in the North and South. By Cece Bell customs as he becomes the first Japanese The author recounts in graphic novel format person to set foot in the United States. The Crossover her experiences with hearing loss at a young By Kwame Alexander age, including using a bulky hearing aid, Hello, Universe Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh learning how to lip read, and determining her By Erin Entrada Kelly and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on "superpower." Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a and off the court as their father ignores his bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of declining health. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band By Jacqueline Kelly together in an epic quest to find and rescue Dead End in Norvelt In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old him. By Jack Gantos Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, her mother, learns about love from the older twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the three of her six brothers, and studies the Magical Children and Their Holy Dog summer of 1962 grounded for various natural world with her grandfather. By Adam Gidwitz offenses until he is assigned to help an Crossing paths at an inn, thirteenth-century elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated travelers impart the tales of a monastery involving the newly dead, molten wax, Adventures oblate, a Jewish refugee, and a psychic twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, By Kate DiCamillo peasant girl with a loyal greyhound, the three underage driving, lessons from history, Rescuing a squirrel after an accident of whom join forces on a chase through typewriting, and countless bloody noses. involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading France to escape persecution. cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished Inside Out & Back Again Doll Bones when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates By Thanhha Lai By Holly Black astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived. Through a series of poems, a young girl Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, Pennsylvania middle school who have long when she, her mother, and her brothers leave enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl. The Night Diary Roller Girl By Veera Hiranandani By Victoria Jamieson Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her A graphic novel adventure about a girl who home with her Hindu family during the 1947 discovers roller derby right as she and her partition of India, tries to find her voice and best friend are growing apart. make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim Scary Stories for Young Foxes mother in the pages of her diary. By Christian McKay Heidicker A collection of six connected stories that The One and Only Ivan follows a group of fox kits as they fight to by Katherine Applegate survive in an unforgiving wilderness. When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Three Times Lucky Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added By Sheila Turnage to the mall, he decides that he must find her Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo a better life. Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn One Crazy Summer detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner By Rita Williams-Garcia of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder. Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, The War that Saved My Life eleven-year-old Delphine and her two By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as A young disabled girl and her brother are they discover that their mother, a dedicated evacuated from London to the English poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion countryside during World War II, where they of their visit and wants them to attend a find life to be much sweeter away from their nearby Black Panther summer camp. abusive mother.

Other Words for Home When You Reach Me By Jasmine Warga By Rebecca Stead Sent with her mother to the safety of a In the 1980s, as her mother prepares to be a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian contestant on a television game show, hometown is overshadowed by violence, Miranda tries to make sense of a series of Jude worries for the family members who mysterious notes received from an were left behind as she adjusts to a new life anonymous source that seems to defy the with unexpected surprises. laws of time and space.

Paperboy By Vince Vawter When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.