Grade 7 Diverse Book Collections with Annotations Title Author Summary Awards & Honors Lines We Cross Abdel-fattah, R Michael, a typical boy who loves hanging out Compendium Fall 2017 with his friends and fooling around with graphic Readers' Choice HS Nominee 2019-2020 design software, grows up accepting his parents' NCSS Notable Title 2018 anti-immigration politics. He goes along with CCBC Global Book them to anti-immigrant rallies, and everything they say makes sense to Michael—until one day he meets Mina, a beautiful girl who happens to be a Muslim refugee from Afghanistan. When he learns of Mina's dangerous journey and how she came to America, Michael has to question what he has always accepted. "A meditation on a timely subject that never forgets to put its characters and their stories first" (KIRK). Becoming Kareem : Growing Up Abdul-jabbar, K Presents the memoir of legendary basketball Compendium Winter 2018 On And Off The Court player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as he reflects on his New York Times Bestseller childhood, career, conversion, and social reform. Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List 2019 Garden State Teen Nonfiction Award Sasquatch In The Paint Abdul-jabbar, K Eighth-grader Theo Rollins' growth spurt has Compendium Spring 2014 definitely captured the attention of everyone IN Young Hoosiers Award 2016 around him--especially Coach Mandrake, who PA Reader's Choice 2017-2018 has devoted himself to transforming Theo into a TX Lone Star Reading List 2014 basketball star. Unfortunately, Theo has zero experience with the game. Theo's true passion is his school's science club, but basketball practice is hurting the science club's chances of winning the “Aca-lympics.” Even worse, a stealing accusation could mean Theo is off both teams— unless he can act quickly and get to the bottom of the strange claim. Tackling issues that will easily be relatable to middle school readers, this excellent novel from Abdul-Jabbar is what Kirkus Reviews calls “fearless, caring sports fiction.” 1 Grade 7 Diverse Book Collections with Annotations Yes! We Are Latinos Ada, A A collection of poems representing thirteen Compendium Spring 2014 young Latinos of diverse backgrounds and CCBC Book 2014 starting with "My name is..." Includes Chicago Public Library Best of the Best 2013 nonfictional interludes discussing issues IL SALSA Spanish Language Books 2014 pertinent to today's Latinos, and black-and-white illustrations. I Lived On Butterfly Hill Agosin, M When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over Compendium Fall 2014 by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is 2015 ALA Honor sent to America for her safety and her parents 2015 ALA Medalist must go into hiding before they "disappear." 2015 ALA Notable Children's Books Pura Belpre Award 2015 IRA Notable Books for a Global Society 2015 IRA Teachers' Choices Green Bicycle Al mansour, H In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, eleven-year-old Wadjda Amelia Bloomer Project Title 2016 dreams of having a bicycle to race her friend, NCSS Notable Title 2016 Abdullah, but it is not proper for girls to own bikes. Wadjda attempts to earn money for a bike by passing notes in class and selling mixtapes of banned music, but she is caught. Although Wadjda is forced to temporarily stop scheming, she is determined to buy a bicycle, and risks everything to make her dream come true. Mary Bowser And The Civil War Alberti, E Relates the story of African American Union spy Camellia Award Winner Spy Ring Mary Bowser who worked as a maid in Skipping Stones Book Award Confederate President Jefferson Davis's home Texas Topaz Reading List 2018 during the Civil War while also providing clues to the reader in order for them to discover the location of Mary's secret diary. 2 Grade 7 Diverse Book Collections with Annotations Booked Alexander, K Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates Compendium Fall 2016 books, but soon learns the power of words as he New York Times Best Seller wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a National Book Award Longlist bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams. ILA-CBC Children's Book Choice List ALA Notable Children's Book Book Links' Lasting Connections Kirkus Prize YA Nominee 2016 San Francisco Chronicle Best Book Washington Post Best Book BookPage Best Book Beehive YA Book Award Winner Golden Archer Award Winner Best Children's Books of the Year 2017 Booklist's 50 Best Middle Grade Books for the 21st Century Youper Award Honor New York Charlotte Award MS 2018 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Award 2019 Reader's Choice Award Nominee 2018-2019 3 Grade 7 Diverse Book Collections with Annotations Crossover Alexander, K Josh Bell and his twin brother Jordan are stars on Compendium Fall 2014 their high school basketball team, taught by their New York Times Bestseller father, a professional player in Europe before his Newbery Medal Winner health forced him to quit. Josh is better known Coretta Scott King Honor Award by his nickname, Filthy McNasty, because he has 2015 YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for YA mad ball skills and mad beats, too, making up 2015 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant YA Readers rhymes even while he is dribbling past some Publishers Weekly Best Book unsuspecting guard. Josh has always assumed SLJ Best Book that he and Jordan would follow in their dad's Kirkus Best Book footsteps and go pro, but with their father's Arkansas Charlie May Simon Award deteriorating health, and the presence of a Rebecca Caudill Award polarizing new girl at school, the future is Iowa Teen Award anything but certain. Told in poetry, author Buckeye Children's Award Alexander's verses “dodge and weave with the Garden State Teen Fiction Award speed of a point guard driving for the basket. [… Evergreen Teen Book Award A] real emotional punch” (PW). YA Book Award MS Winner New York 3 Apples Teen Award Nominee Massachusetts Children's Book Award Louisiana Young Reader's Choice Award Indian Paintbrush Award Winner Kentucky Bluegrass Award Oklahoma Sequoyah Intermediate Book Award 4 Grade 7 Diverse Book Collections with Annotations Rebound Alexander, K In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Compendium Spring 2018 Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where New York Times Best Seller he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more ALA Notable Book 2019 about his family's past. Texas Bluebonnet Award 2019-2020 Just One More Page! Reading List 2019 ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant YA 2019 Georgia Children's Book Award 2019-2020 Beehive Fiction Award Nominee 2019-2020 Black-Eyed Susan Award 2019-2020 Buckeye Children's Award Nominee 2019 ILA Teachers' Choice Reading List 2019 ILA Young Adults' Choice Reading List 2019 Garden State Teen Fiction Nominee 2020 I Will Always Write Back : How Alifirenka, C Presents a true story of how twelve-year-old New York Times Best Seller One Letter Changed Two Lives Caitlin Alifirenka from Pennsylvania became a Compendium 2015 Fall pen pal with Martin Ganda, who lives in YARP MS Teen Choice Winner Zimbabwe. Describes how the letters they ALA Popular Paperbacks for YA 2017 exchanged changed both of their lives and led to Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List a lifelong friendship. Soaring Eagle Award Nominee 2018-2019 Spirit Week Showdown Allen, C Mya Tibbs is ecstatic: It's Spirit Week at school! Compendium Spring 2016 She and her best friend, the ultra-popular Naomi Best Children's Books of the Year 2017 Jackson, have pinky promised to be Spirit Week Kirkus Prize Young Readers' Nominee 2016 partners so that they can win VIP tickets to the Fall Festival. However, they are not allowed to pick their own partners. Mya draws mean girl Connie for her partner! Could anything more go wrong? However, Mya soon discovers that Connie isn't mean, and Naomi isn't acting like the friend Mya thought she was ... “Nuanced depictions of friendship coupled with larger- than-life and fully three-dimensional characters make this delightful book at once thoughtful and a riot to read” (KIRK). 5 Grade 7 Diverse Book Collections with Annotations Before We Were Free Alvarez, J In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, Compendium Title twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is Miami Herald Best Book of the Year involved in the underground movement to end Winner of the Americas Award for Children's and the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo. Young Adult Literature Pura Belpre Award ALA-YALSA Best Book for YA ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book Return To Sender Alvarez, J When 11-year-old Tyler Paquette's father is Compendium Fall 2009 injured in a tractor accident and the family faces Pura Belpre Award losing their Vermont farm, his father decides to Americas Award hire undocumented Mexican workers to help NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field save their farm from foreclosure. Tyler befriends of Social Studies one of the worker's daughters, Mari Cruz, and the families form a close-knit bond over the course of the year. Tyler becomes a witness to the struggles that the Cruz family must endure, from the fear of deportation and imprisonment to coping with the disappearance of Mari's mother. Accompanied by chapters that conclude with Mari's unsent letters to her mother, Alvarez's "novel is an excellent curriculum tool ... [and] belongs in every collection" (LMC). Come August, Come Freedom : Amateau, G Imagines the childhood and youth of "Prosser's Compendium Spring 2013 The Bellows, The Gallows, And Gabriel," a courageous and intelligent blacksmith Best Children's Books of 2013 Th in post-Revolutionary Richmond, Virginia, who VA Jefferson Cup Award 2013 roused thousands of African-American slaves like himself to rebel.