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Sarah Dooley
After her brother dies in a fire, seventh-grader Sasha Harless enters foster care in a West Virginia mining town. Her father has already died in the mines, and her mother has left. Sasha discovers relatives she did not know she had, including Mikey, a young child carrying his own hurts. Poetry becomes a way for her to reconsider family and home.
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We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf HitlerRussell FreedmanThis history follows Hans and Sophie Scholl from their early involvement in Nazi youth organizations to their growing disillusionment with the regime. In Munich during the early 1940s, Hans, Sophie, and friends formed the White Rose resistance movement. Their means of opposition were secretly written, printed, and distributed leaflets urging Germans to resist fascism. The book recounts the group’s planning, capture, interrogation, brief trial, and the executions of Hans, Sophie, and another member in 1943.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
INFORMATION BOOKS Comics Confidential: Thirteen Graphic Novelists Talk Story, Craft, and Life outside the Boxand edited by Leonard S. MarcusThis collection looks at comics through conversations with thirteen graphic novelists and includes original comics. The featured illustrators discuss their childhoods and their creative processes. Each contributor supplies a self-portrait and creates a panel on the theme of “the city.” Alongside the interviews and artwork, the book includes back matter. It offers a view of the people and work involved in graphic novels and comics.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
FurthermoreTahereh MafiTwelve-year-old Alice Queensmeadow lives in a magical world that prizes color, though she was born without it. Hoping to find her missing father, she enters the dangerous land of Furthermore with Oliver, another outsider. Their quest takes Alice through a place shaped by magic and unexpected challenges. As she travels, Alice seeks both her father and a clearer understanding of the abilities she has struggled to prove.Twelve to FourteenLexile Text Measure 840LATOS Book Level 5.5On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details