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  • Between Mom and Jo by Julie Anne Peters

    Between Mom and Jo

    Julie Anne Peters

    Nick has a three-legged dog named Lucky, some pet fish, and two moms who think he's the greatest kid ever. And he happens to think he has the greatest Moms ever, but everything changes when his birth mom and her wife, Jo, start to have marital problems. Suddenly, Nick is in the middle, and instead of having two Moms to turn to for advice, he has no one.

  • Between Us Baxters by Bethany Hegedus

    Between Us Baxters

    Bethany Hegedus

    The story of twelve-year-old Polly, a poor white Southern girl whose close friendship with Timbre Ann, a middle-class black teen, puts both families in danger. As white supremacists set fire to black businesses, Polly struggles to cope with the implications for her family and to understand the true meaning of friendship. Polly's sense of justice threatens to upset the status quo in her small town.

  • Billy Had to Move: A Foster Care Story by Theresa Ann Fraser

    Billy Had to Move: A Foster Care Story

    Theresa Ann Fraser

    Child Protection Services have been involved with Billy and his mother for some time now. He has been happily settled in a kinship placement with his grandmother and enjoys his pet cat, interacting with neighbors and even taking piano lessons. As the story unfolds, Billy's grandmother has unexpectedly passed away and so the story of Billy Had To Move begins. Unfortunately, Billy's mother cannot be located. Mr. Murphy, Billy's social worker, places him in the foster home of Amy, Tim, and their baby "Colly." Billy experiences great loss resulting not only from his grandmother's death, but also the loss of the life he knew. Billy's inner journey therefore has also begun and with the help of Ms. Woods, a Play Therapist, there is hope.

  • Bird by Zetta Elliott

    Bird

    Zetta Elliott

    Young Mekhai, better known as Bird, loves to draw. With drawings, he can erase the things that don't turn out right. In real life, problems aren’t so easily fixed. As Bird struggles to understand the death of his beloved grandfather and his older brother’s drug addiction, he escapes into his art. Drawing is an outlet for Bird’s emotions and imagination, and provides a path to making sense of his world. In time, with the help of his grandfather’s friend, Bird finds his own special somethin’ and wings to fly. Told with spare grace, Bird is a touching look at a young boy coping with real-life troubles. Readers will be heartened by Bird’s quiet resilience, and moved by the healing power of putting pencil to paper.

  • Blabber Mouth by Morris Gleitzman

    Blabber Mouth

    Morris Gleitzman

    Rowena Batts is hiding in a cupboard after having stuffed a frog into Darryn Peck's mouth. But she has a bigger problem that involves her dad, his shirts, and his habit of singing in public. How can she tell him these things are wrecking her life?

  • Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America by Ibi Zoboi

    Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

    Ibi Zoboi

    Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi and featuring some of the most acclaimed best-selling black authors writing for teens today - Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and black in America.

  • Boo's Beard by Rose Mannering

    Boo's Beard

    Rose Mannering

    New friends and a dog named Boo help an autistic child learn how to read facial expressions.

  • Brianna Breathes Easy: A story about Asthma by Virginia L. Kroll

    Brianna Breathes Easy: A story about Asthma

    Virginia L. Kroll

    Brianna gets the lead in the Thanksgiving school playshell be Hero the Hen! She almost forgets about the coughing and breathing trouble she's been having.Brianna loves practicing her leaping and flapping. But at the dress rehearsal, she has a bad coughing attack and feels a tightness in her chest. The teacher calls 911 and the paramedics take Brianna to the hospital. There, Dr. Anderson diagnoses Brianna with asthma. Brianna begins to learn about her disease and how to manage it. Things are soon under control, and she's back on stage for her debut!

  • Brian's Bird by Patricia Anne Davis and Layne Johnson

    Brian's Bird

    Patricia Anne Davis and Layne Johnson

    Eight-year-old Brian, who is blind, learns how to take care of his new parakeet and comes to realize that his older brother, while sometimes careless, is not so bad after all.

  • Camo Girl by Kekla Magoon

    Camo Girl

    Kekla Magoon

    Ella, a biracial girl with a patchy and uneven skin tone, and her friend Z, a boy who is very different, have been on the bottom of the social order at Caldera Junior High School in Las Vegas, but when the only other African-American student enters their sixth grade class, Ella longs to be friends with him and join the popular group, but does not want to leave Z all alone.

  • Caterpillars Can’t Swim by Liane Shaw

    Caterpillars Can’t Swim

    Liane Shaw

    Two boys look to the water for escape, but for very different reasons. For sixteen-year-old Ryan, the water is where he finds his freedom. Ever since childhood, when he realized that he would never walk like other people, he has loved the water where gravity is no longer his enemy. But he never imagined he would become his small town's hero by saving a schoolmate from drowning. Jack is also attracted to the water, but for him it's the promise of permanent escape. Disappearing altogether seems better than living through one more day of high school where he is dogged by rumors about his sexuality. He's terrified that coming out will alienate him from everyone in town - and crush his adoring mother. Ryan saves Jack's life, but he also keeps his secret. Their bond leads to a grudging friendship, and an unexpected road-trip to Comic Con with Ryan's best friend Cody, the captain of the swim team. The unlikely trio ends up subverting preconceptions and prejudices of their own and of those around them.

  • Catherine's Story by Genevieve Moore

    Catherine's Story

    Genevieve Moore

    What makes Catherine so special? She can't talk, she can't walk like her cousin Frances can. But Catherine listens very hard (hardly anyone does that), and she can walk in her special shoes, but when Frances tries, she just falls over! And her claps are so quiet that hardly anyone can hear them. These are the things that make Catherine special and, because her family knows how special she is, this makes them feel special too. This is the story of a child born with severe additional needs that focusses on the special nature of her abilities.

  • Chang and the Bamboo Flute by Elizabeth Starr Hill

    Chang and the Bamboo Flute

    Elizabeth Starr Hill

    Chang, a mute Chinese boy whose father uses cormorants to fish, becomes a hero when a heavy rain strands his father's fishing raft.

  • Chester and Gus by Cammie McGovern

    Chester and Gus

    Cammie McGovern

    Chester, a service dog, is adopted into a family where he becomes a companion to Gus, a ten-year-old boy with nonverbal autism, who initially challenges Chester by requiring a different kind of friendship.

  • Circle by Jeannie Baker

    Circle

    Jeannie Baker

    Follows the migration of the bar-tailed godwits from Australia and New Zealand to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.

  • Clara Hale: Mother to Those Who Needed One by Bob Italia

    Clara Hale: Mother to Those Who Needed One

    Bob Italia

    Presents the life of the New York woman whose love of children led her to establish a foster care program to help babies born addicted to drugs.

  • Collateral Damage by Patrick Jones and Brent Chartier

    Collateral Damage

    Patrick Jones and Brent Chartier

    Ty is very proud of his father's accomplishments as a U.S. Army sargeant, but when a brain injury and partial paralysis send his father home from Afghanistan in a wheelchair, Ty finds it hard to balance schoolwork, basketball, a girlfriend, and friends with the time and effort required to care for him.

  • Colt by Nancy Springer

    Colt

    Nancy Springer

    A young boy with a crippling disease learns, through a horseback riding program, to overcome his own anxieties and to help others in dealing with their own problems.

  • Compromised by Heidi Ayarbe

    Compromised

    Heidi Ayarbe

    With her con-man father in prison, fifteen-year-old Maya sets out from Reno, Nevada, for Boise, Idaho, hoping to stay out of foster care by finding an aunt she never knew existed, but a fellow runaway complicates all of her scientifically-devised plans.

  • Countdown by Deborah Wiles

    Countdown

    Deborah Wiles

    Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country is living in fear.

  • Crazy Beautiful by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

    Crazy Beautiful

    Lauren Baratz-Logsted

    In this contemporary retelling of "Beauty and the Beast," a teenaged boy whose hands were amputated in an explosion and a gorgeous girl whose mother has recently died form an instant connection when they meet on their first day as new students.

  • Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate

    Crenshaw

    Katherine Applegate

    A story about a homeless boy and his imaginary friend that proves in unexpected ways that friends matter, whether real or imaginary.

  • Curious George Joins the Team by Cynthia Platt

    Curious George Joins the Team

    Cynthia Platt

    While on a playdate with his new friend, Tina, who uses a wheelchair, George sees some kids playing basketball and jumps right into the action, but Tina is too shy to join in, even though he knows she is a great player.

  • Cursed by Karol Ruth Silverstein

    Cursed

    Karol Ruth Silverstein

    Depicts young teen Ricky Bloom's struggles with her recent juvenile inflammatory disease diagnosis, which comes amid family upheaval and challenges at school.

  • Dachy's Deaf by Jack Hughes

    Dachy's Deaf

    Jack Hughes

    Dachy wears a hearing aid. But sometimes, when his friends get too noisy, he likes to turn it off to get some peace and quiet. One day, when his hearing aid is off, Dachy falls asleep and ends up floating down the river towards a waterfall and a hungry crocodile. Can his friends rescue him in time?

 

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