#ParkwayReads 2021 Summer Reading List Grades 6- 8 3 YA The Bone Houses Emily Jones-Lloyd

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Genesis Begins Again The Bone Houses The Remarkable Journey Tiger Queen By Alicia D. Williams By Emily Jones-Lloyd of Sunrise By Annie Sullivan Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again When risen corpses called 'bone By Dan Gemeinhart Princess Kateri’s desert kingdom of and again to lighten her black skin, houses' threaten Ryn's village Five years.That's how long Achra is suffering from a drought, thinking it is the root of her family's because of a decades-old curse, twelve-year-old Coyote and her and as a result, the king is having to troubles, before discovering reasons she teams up with a mapmaker dad, River, have lived on the ration its precious water, which, to to love herself as is. named Ellis to solve the mystery road in an old school bus, make matters worse, is being stolen of the curse and destroy the criss-crossing the nation.It's also by the gang of Desert Boys. Kateri It's The End of the World bone houses forever. how long ago Coyote lost her longs to help her people, but first, As I Know It mom and two sisters.Coyote as is tradition, she must fight By Matthew Landis The Crossover hasn't been home in all that time, through the arena and prove her Derrick is building a doomsday shelter By Kwame Alexander but when she learns that the park right to rule before she can become to prepare for the apocalypse when This graphic novel adaptation of in her old neighborhood is being queen. However, when she he makes friends with Misty, the girl Alexander’s novel in verse brings demolished--the very same park discovers who her final opponent is, next door. each character and event to life where she, her mom, and her Kateri knows that her training won’t through dynamic line work and sisters buried a treasured be enough to give her a victory, Other Words For Home portions of Alexander’s beautiful memory box--she devises an what will she do? By Jasmine Warga poetry. The artwork, in a palette elaborate plan to get her dad to Jude never thought she'd be leaving of black, white, gray, and orange, drive 3,600 miles back to Verify her beloved older brother and father evokes the imagery of the Washington state By Joelle Charbonneau behind, all the way across the ocean basketball, ensuring that readers An alluring young man gives in Syria. But when things in her feel Josh Bell’s experiences The Unteachables teenage Meri a slip of paper that hometown start becoming volatile, come to life. By Gordon Kormon changes everything she knows Jude and her mother are sent to live The Unteachables never thought about the world and sets her on a in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, The Line Tender they'd find a teacher who had a quest for the truth. The paper says everything in America seems too fast By Kate Allen worse attitude than they did, and only “VERIFY,” a word Meri has and too loud. The American movies Following a tragedy that further Mr. Kermit never thought he never seen before. As it turns out, that Jude has always loved haven't alters the course of her life, would actually care about there is a lot about the world that bit.ly/maslawards quite prepared her for starting school twelve-year-old Lucy Everhart teaching again. Over the course Meri does not know. Following clues in the US --and her new label of decides to continue the shark of a school year room 117 will left by her late mother, Meri begins 'Middle Eastern,' an identity she's research her marine biologist experience mayhem, destruction, to learn the truth behind the clean, never known before. mother left unfinished when and maybe even a shot at eco-friendly, safe society she died years earlier. redemption. in which they live. Right As Rain By Lindsey Stoddard It's been almost a year since Rain's brother Guthrie died, and her parents still don't know it was all Rain's fault. In fact, no one does--Rain buried her bit.ly/masl2022 secret deep, no matter how heavy it weighs on her heart. tinyurl.com/ParkwayReads #ParkwayReads Association for Library Service to Children & Best of Titlewave Grades 6 - 8

Almost American Girl: Land of the Cranes Snapdragon The Last Mirror on the Left An Illustrated Memoir By Aida Salazar By Kat Leyh By L. R Giles By Ha Despite being detained in a cruel Snap’s town has a witch. At In this new Legendary Alston Boys Ha shares her experience of a and inhuman deportation camp least that’s the rumor. Full of adventure, Otto and Sheed must surprise move from South Korea with her pregnant mother and acceptance, love, and relatable embark on their most dangerous to Alabama with her single mom. separated from her deported papi, characters, Snapdragon shows the journey yet, bringing Feeling out of place in her new Betita survives by remembering connection between loving yourself a fugitive to justice in a world that stepfamily and high school, she she will return home like a crane and magic. mirrors their own but has its own acclimates with the help of a in the Aztec her papi told rules to play by (book 2 in series). comic-making class. her. Smashes the Klan By Gene Luen Yang The Thirteenth Fairy (Chronicles Before the Ever After NIghtshade (Alex Rider When Dr. Lee moves his family to of Never After) By Jacqueline Woodson Adventures) Metropolis, his son Tommy adjusts By Melissa De la Cruz In this novel in verse, ZJ leans By Anthony Horowitz to the new neighborhood while Nothing ever happens in Cara on his community for support Teen spy Alex Rider is sent to a daughter Roberta feels out of Jefferson-Cho's sleepy little as his football-star father maximum security facility in place, so when the evil Klan of the suburban town of North Pasadena. experiences alarming medical Gibraltar to impersonate Julius Fiery Cross begins a string of But one day, when Cara is walking symptoms and dramatic changes Grief while seeking information terrorist attacks on the city, home on her own, something as a result of the sport. about a new criminal organization Superman fights them, and strange happens. Cara is being called Nightshade (book 12). Roberta and Superman soon followed by Jack , one of the Brother’s Keeper learn to embrace their own unique heroes in the Thirteenth Fairy, a By Julie Lee. Holiday Refugee features that set them apart. series of books she loves about a Sora and her family fled By Alan Gratz brave girl and her ragtag group of Communist North Korea during the Although separated by continents The Blackbird Girls friends who save their world from Korean War in 1950. When the and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy By Anne Blankman an evil . family becomes separated, Sora living in 1930s Nazi Germany; On a spring morning, neighbors fights for her brother's survival as Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to Valentina and Oksana wake up to This Light Between Us: they travel south. escape the riots and unrest an angry red sky. A reactor at the A Novel of World War II. plaguing her country in 1994; nuclear power plant where their By Andrew Fukuda Class Act (New KId) and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in fathers work --Chernobyl --has A powerful story of World War II By Jerry Craft 2015 whose homeland is torn exploded. Before they know it, the and the unlikeliest of pen pals-- Eighth grader, Drew Ellis apart by violence and destruction, two girls, who've always been a Japanese American boy and a recognizes that he is't afforded the embark on harrowing journey in enemies, find themselves on a French Jewish girl--as they fight same opportunities, no matter how search of refuge, discovering train bound for Leningrad to stay to maintain hope in a time of war. hard he works, that his privileged shocking connections that tie with Valentina's estranged classmates at the Riverdale their stories together. grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In We Dream of Space Academy Day School take for their new lives in Leningrad, they By Erin Entrada Kelly granted, and to make matters Saucy begin to learn what it means to Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas worse, Drew begins to feel as if his By Cynthia Kadohata trust another person. are three siblings in seventh grade good friend Liam might be one of Becca is one of four quadruplets, together in Park, Delaware. In those privileged kids and is finding but while her brothers have found 1986, as the country waits it hard not to withdraw, even as their passions—sports, music, and expectantly for the launch of the their mutual friend Jordan tries science—she feels more adrift. Space Shuttle , they to keep their group of friends each struggle with their own together. personal anxieties.

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1919: The Year How We Got to the Moon: The Poisoned Water: How the The Poison Eaters: Fighting That Changed America People, Technology, and Daring Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Danger and Fraud in our Food By Martin W. Sandler Feats of Science Behind Fought for Their Lives and and Drugs This book explores each major Humanity’s Greatest Adventure Warned the Nation By Gail Jarrow movement of 1919 and offers a By John Rocco By C.J. Cooper & M. Aronson Introduces readers to the unique historical perspective on the This ambitious nonfiction book Through interviews with residents relentless work of U.S. government trajectory of the major movements chronicles one of the most and intensive research into legal chemist Dr. Harvey Washington of the twentieth-century. Showing exciting and miraculous records and new accounts, the Wiley, who mounted readers how every current event accomplishments in American authors reveal the story behind the a thirty-year campaign to protect has unique and fascinating history history--the 1969 lunar landing. water crisis in Flint, Michigan consumers from harmful food and preceding it. which began in 2014 when drugs. Lifting as We Climb: government officials of the All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Black Women's Battle cash-strapped city that had been The Radium Girls Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer for the Ballot Box abandoned by General Motors By Kate Moore Team By Evette Dionne decided to temporarily switch its Explore the unbelievable true story By Christina Soontornvat For African American women, the water supply from Lake Huron to of the young women exposed to With superb narrative nonfiction fight for the right to vote was only the Flint River, which then caused the wonder drug radium and their writing, Soontornvat skillfully one battle. An eye-opening book widespread sickness and death struggle for justice. This enthralling describes the dramatic real-life that tells the important, overlooked to its residents. new edition includes all-new rescue of the Thai Boys’ soccer story of Black material, including a glossary, team in 2018. women as a force in the Thank You For Coming To My timeline, and dozens of bonus suffrage movement -- when fellow Ted Talk photos. Born to Fly: The First Women's suffragists did not accept them as By Chris Anderson Air Race Across America equal partners in the struggle. This book includes everything Torpedoed: The True Story By Steve Sheinkin teens need to persuade, inspire, of the World War II Sinking Ace historian Sheinkin turns to the Monstrous: The Lore, Gore and and inform others, from of the Children's Ship subject of early American women Science Behind Your Favorite preparation pointers and visual By Deborah Heiligman pilots, using as his organizing Monsters cues to notes on tackling pre-talk A true account of the attack and principle the first women's By Carlyn Beccia jitters and avoiding procrastination. sinking of the passenger ship SS cross-country air race. Early This book delves into the history City of Benares, which was chapters introduce the individual and science behind eight The Magnificent Migration: On evacuating children from England contenders; the book then legendary creatures, from Bigfoot Safari with Africa's Last Great during WWII. chronicles, in detailed, dramatic and the kraken to zombies and Herds fashion, each of the eight days more. By Sy Montgomery You Call This Democracy? How of the derby, beginning in Santa This book takes readers on a to Fix Our Government and Monica and ending in Cleveland. On the Horizon staggering, emotional journey Deliver Power to the People By Lois Lowry alongside the greatest land By Elizabeth Rusch Disaster Strikes!: The Most From two-time Newbery medalist migration on planet earth to America is the greatest democracy Dangerous Space Missions and living legend Lois Lowry explore the mystery and wonder in the world...isn't it? Author of All Time comes a moving account of the of migration in a sweeping story Elizabeth Rusch examines some By Jeffrey Kluger lives lost in two of WWII's most sure to leave its mark. of the more problematic aspects There are so many missions to infamous events: Pearl Harbor of our government but, more outer space that have succeeded. and Hiroshima. importantly, offers ways for But for every success, there are young people to fix them. mistakes, surprises, and flat-out failures that happen along the way. This collection recounts twelve such disasters, telling the stories of the astronauts and the cosmonauts, the trials and the errors, the missions and the bit.ly/dogwood2021 misses.

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