Looking for a good book? This list was created by the North Shore Library’s Youth Services Department. The books on this list come highly recommended by librarians, teachers, parents, and children!
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Giant Days. Volume 1 by John Allison A Bride’s Story. 1 by Kaoru Mori This One Summer by Mariko & Jillian Tamaki YA GRAPHIC ALLISON YA GRAPHIC MORI YA GRAPHIC TAMAKI Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three As she and her husband adjust to their arranged Rose and her parents have been going to Awago Beach weeks ago and became friends. Now, away from home marriage, Amir strives to find her role as she settles into since she was a little girl. It’s her summer getaway, her for the first time, all want to reinvent themselves. But a new life and a new home in a society quick to define refuge. Her friend Windy is always there, too, like the in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal that role for her. little sister she never had, completing her summer experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu- Grade 8-12 family. But this summer is different. Rose’s mom and chauvinism, and the unwanted intrusion of "academia," dad won’t stop fighting, and Rose and Windy have they may be lucky to make it to spring alive. gotten tangled up in a tragedy-in-the-making in the Tomboy: a graphic novel by Liz Prince Grade 8-12 small town of Awago Beach. It’s a summer of secrets and YA GRAPHIC PRINCE heartache, and it’s a good thing Rose and Windy have
Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early each other. Through the Woods by Emily Carroll years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' Grade 8-12 YA GRAPHIC CARROLL baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on Discover a terrifying world in the woods in this gender as she comes of age, in an anecdotal graphic Smile by Rania Telegemeier collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories novel memoir. J GRAPHIC TELGEMEIER that includes the online webcomic sensation “His Face Grade 7-9 All Red,” in print for the first time. From sixth grade through tenth, Raina copes with a
Grade 8-12 variety of dental problems that affect her appearance Out from Boneville by Jeff Smith and how she feels about herself.
YA GRAPHIC SMITH Grade 4-8 In Real Life by Cory Doctorow Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out YA GRAPHIC DOCTOROW of their home, Boneville, and become separated in the Food Wars! : shokugeki no soma. Vol. 1 by Yuto Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the role playing game wilds, but better fortune begins the three cousins that she spends most of her time on. It's a place where reunite at a farmstead in a deep forested valley, where Tsukudo she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where Fone meets a young girl named Thorn. YA GRAPHIC TSUKUDO she can meet people from all over the world, and make Grade 4-8 When Soma Yukihira’s father enrolls him in a classy friends. But things become complicated when Anda culinary school, Soma must learn if he can make the befriends a gold farmer -- a poor Chinese kid whose grade in such a prestigious environment. Nimona by Noelle Stevenson avatar illegally collects valuable objects and sells them Grade 4-8 to players from other countries with money to burn. YA GRAPHIC STEVENSON
This behavior is against the rules, but Anda soon comes Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a Boxers by Gene Luen Yang less straightforward when a real person's real vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord YA GRAPHIC YANG livelihood is at stake. Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. In China in 1898, bands of foreign missionaries and Grade 7-9 Their mission: prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Chinese peasants. Little Bao has had enough: harnessing Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson thinks they are. But as small acts of mischief escalate of Boxers – commoners trained in kung fu who fight to J GRAPHIC JAMIESON into a vicious battle, Lord Blackheart realizes that free China from “foreign devils.” A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her Grade 8-12 roller derby right as she and her best friend are past. And her unpredictable wild side might be more growing apart. dangerous than he is willing to admit Saints by Gene Luen Yang Grade 4-8 Grade 8-12 YA GRAPHIC YANG
Vibiana, an unwanted fourth child, finds her name and March. Book 1 by John Lewis Orange: the complete collection 1 by Ichigo Takano identity in Christianity, but with the Boxer Rebellion in YA GRAPHIC LEWIS YA GRAPHIC TAKANO full swing and Chinese Christians facing death, she must March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' Who wouldn't take the chance to change the past if decide whether her loyalties lie with her religion or her lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating given the opportunity? When sixteen-year-old country. in the modern age on the distance traveled since the Takamiya Naho receives a mysterious letter, claiming to Grade 8-12 days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' be from her twenty-seven-year-old self, her life is personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of suddenly thrown into flux. What is Naho to make of the the broader civil rights movement. letter's contents and its cryptic warning? Grade 8-12 Grade 8-12