Category Archives: social issues
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Almost Zero
Posted on April 7, 2011 by Jessica in Early Chapter Books, Realistic Fiction, social issuesby Nikki Grimes Dyamonde NEEDS those fancy new sneakers. Right now. Her classmate tells her that it’s her mom’s job to give her what she needs. Amazingly, Dyamonde’s mom agrees that it is her job to give Dyamonde exactly what she needs. When Dyamonde comes home from school, though, she doesn’t find new sneakers [...]
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I, Emma Freke
Posted on March 23, 2011 by Children's Department Staff in Realistic Fiction, social issuesBy Elizabeth Atkinson Emma Freke was born different. Her name is embarrassing (Come on…say it out loud). She looks like no one in her family- with dull red hair and drab features. And she is smart, way smarter than other kids her age. Oh, and did I forget to mention she is twelve years old [...]
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Touch Blue
Posted on March 7, 2011 by Jessica in social issuesby Cynthia Lord I’ve read quite a few books about foster children, but until I picked this one up, I hadn’t realized that they were all from the point of view of the foster child. Cynthia Lord takes a different approach here. Touch Blue is from the point of view of Tess, a child [...]
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Come Fall
Posted on January 25, 2011 by Victoria in Fantasy, social issuesby A.C.E. Bauer Come Fall blends fantasy and middle school reality–and both worlds operate by their own baffling rules! Salman, 13, is starting seventh grade in his eleventh school. He has no idea who or where his birth parents are. Salman’s newest foster family is anything but warm, but Salman knows how to blend into [...]
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One Crazy Summer
Posted on January 23, 2011 by Children's Department Staff in Historical Fiction, Inspirational, Newbery, other award winners, social issuesby Rita Williams-Garcia Eleven year-old Delphine and her younger sisters Vonnetta and Fern embark on a physical and emotional journey during what turns out to be One Crazy Summer. They are sent to Oakland, California in the summer of 1968 to the care of their radical-poet mother, Cecile, who left them when Fern was just [...]
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The Danger Box
Posted on December 22, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Mysteries, social issuesby Blue Balliett Blue Balliett, author of Chasing Vermeer, has introduced us to a unique cast of characters and a new mystery in her latest novel, The Danger Box. Zoomy is not your average kid. First reason being he was rasied by his grandparents after having been left by their door as a baby. Second, [...]
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My Havana: Memories of a Cuban Boyhood
Posted on December 18, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Historical Fiction, Inspirational, social issues, world culturesby Rosemary Wells My Havana: Memories of a Cuban Boyhood by Rosemary Wells is a stunning jewel of a story. Expressive in it’s descriptive sentences and wonderful illustrations by Peter Ferguson, this book details the journey of young Secundino (Dino) Fernandez from his beautiful Havana to Madrid and eventually New York City in the 1950′s. [...]
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Saving Sky
Posted on December 13, 2010 by Victoria in Science Fiction, social issuesby Diane Stanley Imagine if the 9/11 terrorist attacks had just been the first in an ongoing war taking place on American soil. Diane Stanley has done just that, drawing parallels between the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and World War II. The main character is 13-year-old Sky, who lives with her family on [...]
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Touch Blue
Posted on December 10, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in social issuesby Cynthia Lord Eleven year old Tess Brooks believes in letting the forces of the Universe control her fate. She knows that there are things you can do to bring good luck upon yourself, like touching wood, touching blue or turning around three times. But she also knows there are things that bring back luck [...]
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Betti on the High Wire
Posted on November 29, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Realistic Fiction, social issuesBetti is her American name. Babo is her circus name, and the name that has followed her through years of war, loss and heartache. Babo is the name she is called when she is at home, in her country. But Betti isn’t in her country anymore, she has been adopted away from her abandoned circus [...]
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