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Meg Wiviott
While imprisoned at Auschwitz, Zlatka takes a grave risk to make a birthday card for her friend. She secretly obtains the supplies by stealing and trading, knowing that discovery could mean death. The forbidden gift becomes an act of defiance amid the camp’s brutality. This true story follows two teenage girls whose friendship, hope, and determination to live persist while they are held at Auschwitz.
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Emmy & OliverRobin BenwayEmmy and Oliver had expected to remain best friends, perhaps becoming something more, until their futures were abruptly separated. Oliver was kidnapped by his father and returns ten years later. Emmy still feels that their connection has endured despite the years apart, but Oliver’s return does not make the transition easy. The story follows the difficult adjustment created by his homecoming and their long separation.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
March: Book TwoJohn Lewis, Andrew AydinThe second volume of John Lewis’s graphic memoir trilogy follows his civil-rights activism and leadership in the early 1960s. During the Freedom Rides, Lewis is beaten and jailed, experiences that deepen his political commitment. He later takes a leadership role in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as protests intensify in Birmingham. The book covers his work planning the 1963 March on Washington and revising his speech, and concludes with the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four girls. Black-and-white panel art accompanies the account.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next GenerationBrett Fletcher Lauer, Lynn Melnick, introduction by Carolyn ForchéThis anthology brings together 100 poems by young poets in the United States, presenting many personal viewpoints and observations. The selections span a multicultural range of experiences, with poems that can be intimate, unsettling, image-rich, and surprising. Across the collection, the poems address varied subjects and offer many different ways into contemporary American poetry. The anthology emphasizes the breadth and diversity of its poets and the distinct perspectives represented in their work.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details