Minni lives in the poorest part of Mumbai, where access to water is limited to a few hours a day and the communal taps have long lines. Lately, though, even that access is threatened by severe water shortages and thieves who are stealing this precious commodity—an act that Minni accidentally witnesses one night. Meanwhile, in the high-rise building where she just started to work, she discovers that water streams out of every faucet and there’s even a rooftop swimming pool. What Minni also discovers there is one of the water mafia bosses. Now she must decide whether to expose him and risk her job and maybe her life. How did something as simple as access to water get so complicated?
2024-2025 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 4.4
Published by Nancy Paulsen Books
Copyright July 19, 2022
ISBN# 978-0593354391 (PB, HB)
At the start of 7th grade, Elita Brown’s friends enjoy their seats at the popular lunchroom table. Meanwhile, Elita hides in the bathroom. This is not how she envisioned middle school. And her omission from the popular table is only the beginning of her problems. What will she do when she’s terrorized by the meanest girl in school and accused of a crime she didn’t commit? Elita befriends an older couple living in the woods and gains confidence through her project on the red fox. Will Elita find her way and take her seat at the best table? Full of suspense and divine moments, readers will be captivated by this story.
2024-2025 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Moody Publishers
Copyright June 6, 2023
ISBN# 978-0802428868 (PB)
In this adaptation of her heartfelt memoir, especially inspiring for middle-grade readers, Arceneaux shares the details of her wild ride with never-before-told stories written especially for kids coming to this edition. Arceneaux not only tells readers what it was like to go to space—from training in a fighter jet to lifting off in a Dragon capsule—but she also offers stories from her childhood: things that she faced at the hospital when going through cancer treatment, what she had to overcome when she went back to school, and the courage it took to dream big dreams for her teenage and adult years.
2024-2025 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Convergent Books
Copyright August 8, 2023
ISBN# 978-0593443880 (HB)
Celebrating the invention of vehicles, this collective biography tells the inspiring stories of the visionaries who changed the way we move through air, water, and land.
2023-2024 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 6.1
Published by "Clarion Books "
Copyright January 19, 2021
ISBN# 978-1328560919 (HB)
While finding her own voice, a shy sixth grader speaks up for bullied students.
2023-2024 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Quill Tree Books
Copyright May 18, 2021
ISBN# 978-0063058156 (HB)
When he is transported back to the seventh grade before he and his best friend had a falling out, science nerd Mason gets a chance to stop the chain of events that made his previous life implode.
2023-2024 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 5.2
Published by Balzer + Bray
Copyright January 18, 2022
ISBN# 978-0063032743 (HB)
Melody wants to conquer her fears and make new friends, so she hopes a summer camp for kids like her will welcome someone with cerebral palsy who wants to learn to ride horses and do other fun things for the first time.
2023-2024 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 4.8
Published by Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Copyright June 8, 2021
ISBN# 978-1665902168 (HB)
Meg Kenyon races to save her father and aid the French resistance in this World War II story of espionage and intrigue.
2023-2024 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 5.2
Published by Scholastic Press
Copyright May 3, 2022
ISBN# 978-1338621013 (HB)
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