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Pablo Cartaya
A Hero's Guide to Summer Vacation sends Gonzalo and his estranged, famous-author grandfather on a cross-country book tour where real and imagined challenges force them to confront family history and learn to show up for one another.
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18A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto AlvarezMaría Dolores ÁguilaA Sea of Lemon Trees is a 2025 children's novel in free verse about Roberto Alvarez and the Lemon Grove Incident, in which a Mexican American community successfully challenged school segregation in 1930s California.Grades 3–5Lexile 800LATOS 5.1Same source sectionBook details
02Akeem Keeps Bees!: A Close-Up Look at the Honey Makers and Pollinators of Sankofa FarmsKamal Eugene William Bell, Akeem Bell, illustrated by Darnell JohnsonAkeem Keeps Bees! follows Akeem and his father through a year of beekeeping at Sankofa Farms, from installing bees and finding the queen to harvesting honey and preparing the hive for winter.Grades 3–5Same source sectionBook details
03Bad Badger: A Love StoryMaryrose Wood, illustrated by Giulia GhiginiBad Badger is a young middle-grade story about Septimus, a solitary badger who sets out to find his missing gull friend and discovers that understanding himself is part of staying true to who he is.Grades 3–5Lexile 660LATOS 4.3Same source sectionBook details