Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
5th Grade Reading
6th Grade Reading
Historical Fiction for Kids
Main Children's Staff Chapter Book Favorites
6th Grade Reading
Historical Fiction for Kids
Main Children's Staff Chapter Book Favorites
Description
Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
When twelve-year-old Edie discovers a box in her family's attic filled with photos and letters written by a woman named Edith Graham, she wonders if the woman is related to her mother, a northwest tribe Native American who was adopted by a white family. Discouraged that her parents refuse to answer her questions, Edie sets off on a quest to discover more about her ancestral heritage and whether it is linked to the woman from the box.
4) Criss cross
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through the town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka sixth grader Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm --take on the most important case of Mo's life.
8) Like
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a 'scientist' determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Bea Garcia is paired with Judith Einstein, the smartest kid in the universe, for the geography contest, she worries that Einstein won't want to be her friend if she makes any mistakes. And Bea becomes convinced, if she can just use Einstein's pencil, she'll write all the correct answers.
11) The best at it
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor, an Indian-American boy growing up in small-town Indiana, struggles to come to terms with his identity, including that he may be gay.
12) Nesting dolls
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A little girl struggling to find her place within her family is shown how special she is through a set of nesting dolls.
13) Eee-Moo
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mistakenly believing himself to be an emu, a newly-hatched platypus sets out on a long journey, using various forms of transportation and aided by new friends, to reach Australia.
15) Why am I me?
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
In a poetic, philosophical exchange, two children of different races ask themselves why they are who and what they are, and speculate on how they could be different.
16) The ugly pumpkin
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A lonely, oddly-shaped pumpkin is sad that no one chose him for Halloween, but by Thanksgiving he has discovered where he belongs.
17) Patchwork
Author
Language
English
Description
"An ode to the richly varied tapestry of experiences and identities that make every child unique"--
18) American desi
Author
Language
English
Description
An American child of East Asian descent revels in dances, clothing, games, foods and other characteristics of both cultures, while blending them into what makes this American desi unique.
19) Indian no more
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
4th Grade Reading
6th Grade Reading
Historical Fiction for Kids
Native American Heritage Month for Kids
6th Grade Reading
Historical Fiction for Kids
Native American Heritage Month for Kids
Formats
Description
After her father signs up for the Indian Relocation Program and uproots the family to Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Regina Petit struggles to make sense of life off the reservation, the racism she discovers in her diverse neighborhood, and her identity as an Umpqua native.
20) The seeing stone
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own.