In August 1965, twelve-year-old Eden is excited when her cousin from Mississippi comes to visit her in Los Angeles, but their priorities and plans change when the Watts Riots erupt around them.
2023-2024 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.4
Published by Nancy Paulsen Books
Copyright January 11, 2022
ISBN# 978-1524741587 (HB)
Ben and Nora discover through a mail-order DNA test kit that their youngest sister was adopted and must unravel a family secret.
2023-2024 Crown Award
Reading Level: 3.2
Published by Katherine Tegen Books
Copyright September 28, 2021
ISBN# 978-0062885852 (HB)
When a child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, Brother Edik nurses her back to health. When he uncovers her dangerous secret, she is sent away into the world with a goat and a boy.
2023-2024 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.4
Published by Candlewick
Copyright September 28, 2021
ISBN# 978-1536213614 (HB)
While spending the summer with his grandmother on Dewees Island, eleven-year-old Jake finds two friends also struggling with family issues. Together, they try to save a sea turtle nest.
2023-2024 Crown Award
Reading Level: 3.8
Published by Aladdin
Copyright June 15, 2021
ISBN# 978-1534427273 (HB)
Meet men who have used their God-given talents to live out their faith to the fullest. They come from a variety of backgrounds, eras, and ethnicities, but each one has answered the Lord’s call on their life in bold and innovative ways.
2022-2023 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Harvest Kids
Copyright October 6, 2020
ISBN# 978-0736981330 (HB)
Mr. Penguin and his Adventuring gang board a luxury cruise ship for some much-needed rest and a little entertainment. With Colin, his kung fu spider sidekick, preparing to perform with the Ladies Choir and fish finger sandwiches available twenty-four hours a day, Mr. Penguin isn’t even bothered that he can’t swim and is deeply afraid of water. When he befriends a young stowaway with a mystery of her own to solve, he soon finds that Adventures are lying in wait.
2022-2023 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.9
Published by Peachtree Publishing Company
Copyright October 1, 2020
ISBN# 978-1682632130 (HB)
Amelia does not like noise. In fifth grade, she has to learn to play an instrument or, as she sees it, make noise on purpose. To help Amelia cope, her father gives her a pair of earmuffs to wear. When she makes a new friend in trombone class, the two form an unlikely friendship that helps Amelia find a way to let in the noisy world she’s muffled for so long.
2022-2023 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Copyright October 27, 2020
ISBN# 978-1534463653 (HB)
Olive Hudson desperately wants a dog. But that doesn’t seem to be a possibility right now. Newly orphaned, she’s moving in with the half-sister she hardly knows and their life is too chaotic to include a dog. But then something wonderful happens: Olive gets a chance to raise Lumie, a guide dog puppy. Discipline. Rules. Lots of hugs. Only the best of the best puppies continue on to become guide dogs, and of course Olive wants Lumie to be chosen. But if she is, that means that Olive will lose her.
2022-2023 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Viking Books for Young Readers
Copyright June 16, 2020
ISBN# 978-0593113202 (HB)
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