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Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
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Rajani LaRocca
(3,945)
Summary: Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indian American student, and home, with her family's traditions and holidays. But Reha's parents don't understand why she's...
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Call #: J F LAROCCA
Location: New Junior Fiction
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Donna Barba Higuera
(6,915)
Summary: A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and...
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Call #: YA F HIGUERA
Location: YA Fiction
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Darcie Little Badger
(2,134)
Summary: Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like...
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Call #: YA F LITTLE BADGER
Location: YA Fiction
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Kyle Lukoff
(2,638)
Summary: It's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira, this means figuring out the right...
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Call #: YA F LUKOFF
Location: YA Fiction
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Andrea Wang
(2,900)
Summary: Driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's parents stop suddenly when they spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road. Grabbing an old paper bag and some rusty...
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Call #: J P GROWING WANG
Location: Junior Picture Books - Growing Up
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Christina Soontornvat
(3,374)
Summary: On June 23, 2018, twelve young players of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach enter a cave in northern Thailand seeking an afternoon's adventure. But when they turn to leave, rising...
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Call #: 796.525 SOO YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Carole Boston Weatherford
(652)
Summary: Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property. When he...
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Call #: J B BROWN
Location: Junior Biographies
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Erin Entrada Kelly illustrator
(5,056)
Summary: Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each...
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Call #: J F KELLY
Location: Junior Fiction
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Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
(7,882)
Summary: Depending on an older sister who protected her when their mother went to prison and their mother's boyfriend committed a terrible act, 10-year-old Della tries to figure out what to do when her older sister attempts suicide.
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Call #: YA F BRADLEY
Location: YA Fiction
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Tae Keller
(12,574)
Summary: When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.
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Call #: J F KELLER
Location: Junior Fiction
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Christian McKay Heidicker
(3,552)
Summary: The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe. When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to...
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Call #: J F HEIDICKER
Location: Junior Fiction
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Alicia Williams
(7,097)
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
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Call #: YA F WILLIAMS
Location: YA Fiction
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Kwame Alexander
(5,840)
Summary: An ode to black American triumph and tribulation. Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma...
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Call #: J 811.6 ALE
Location: Junior Nonfiction
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Jasmine Warga
(24,153)
Summary: Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.
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Call #: J F WARGA
Location: Junior Fiction
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Jerry Craft illustrator
(45,394)
Summary: Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school...
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Call #: J GN CRA
Location: Junior Graphic Novels
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Meg Medina
(7,036)
Summary: Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and...
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Call #: J F MEDINA
Location: Junior Fiction
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock
(3,362)
Summary: In 1350, a boy with a large hump on his back becomes the servant of a shadowy pilgrim on his way to Rome, who pulls the boy into a dangerous expedition across Europe to gather the seven precious relics of Saint Peter. --
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Call #: J F MURDOCK
Location: Junior Fiction
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Veera Hiranandani
(14,387)
Summary: Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to...
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Call #: YA F HIRANANDANI
Location: YA Fiction
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Erin Entrada Kelly
(19,235)
Summary: Virgil feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia is deaf, smart, and loves everything about nature. Kaori is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister, Gen, is always...
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Call #: J F KELLY
Location: Junior Fiction
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Kelly Regan Barnhill
(77,427)
Summary: "An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. Every year, the people of the...
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Call #: J F BARNHILL
Location: Junior Fiction
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Matt de la Peña
(16,107)
Summary: Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why doesn't he have an iPod like the boys on the bus? How...
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Call #: E DE LA PENA
Location: Junior Picture Books - Neighbors
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Vince Vawter
(10,218)
Summary: 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.
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Call #: YA F VAWTER
Location: YA Fiction
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Kevin Henkes
(8,499)
Summary: Seven-year-old Billy Miller starts second grade with a bump on his head and a lot of worries, but by the end of the year he has developed good relationships with his teacher, his little sister, and his parents and learned many important lessons.
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Call #: J F HENKES
Location: Junior Fiction
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Kate DiCamillo
(46,834)
Summary: Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo. It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic...
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Call #: J F DICAMILLO
Location: Junior Fiction
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Holly Black
(27,319)
Summary: Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures 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.
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Call #: J F BLACK
Location: Junior Fiction
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Katherine Applegate
(164,985)
Summary: When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
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Call #: J F APPLEGATE
Location: Junior Fiction
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Jack Gantos
Series:
Norvelt Series
(20,801)
Summary: In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual...
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Call #: J F GANTOS
Location: Junior Fiction
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Clare Vanderpool
(32,891)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out...
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Call #: J F VANDERPOOL
Location: Junior Fiction
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Rebecca Stead
(104,855)
Summary: As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received...
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Call #: J F STEAD
Location: Junior Fiction
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Louis Sachar
Series:
Camp Green Lake Series
(1,090,460)
Summary: As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his...
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Call #: J F SACHAR
Location: Junior Fiction
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Neil Gaiman
(490,371)
Summary: After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
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Call #: YA F GAIMAN
Location: YA Fiction
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Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
(4,453)
Summary: In the 1920's, a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.
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Call #: J F LEWIS
Location: Junior Fiction
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Laura Amy Schlitz
(8,167)
Summary: A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
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Call #: J 812.6 SCH
Location: Junior Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Lynne Rae Perkins
(8,730)
Summary: Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
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Call #: YA F PERKINS
Location: YA Fiction
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Cynthia Kadohata
(25,017)
Summary: Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
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Call #: J F KADOHATA
Location: Junior Fiction
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Ellen Raskin
(192,203)
Summary: The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
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Call #: J F RASKIN
Location: Junior Fiction
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Kate DiCamillo
(182,593)
Summary: The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
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Call #: J F DICAMILLO
Location: Junior Fiction
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E. L Konigsburg
(201,712)
Summary: Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
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Call #: J F KONIGSBURG
Location: Junior Fiction
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Avi
Series:
Crispin
(25,219)
Summary: Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
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Call #: YA F AVI
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Richard Peck
(28,900)
Summary: During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman.
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Call #: J F PECK
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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