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• Trajectory

  Gordon, Cambria,

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  As WWII rages overseas, 17-year-old Eleanor, a once-in-a-generation math whiz, is recruited by the U.S. Army and tasked with the ultimate challenge: to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that could secure the world's freedom, but before she can do that,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Amil and the After

  Hiranandani, Veera

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  In 1948, 12-year-old Amil, who is both Muslim and Hindu, struggles to find his place in Bombay, India, until his twin sister suggests he tell his story through drawings meant for their late mother as he tries to find hope and a sense of belonging in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Diary

  Hiranandani, Veera

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  Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Warrior on the Mound

  Headen, Sandra W.

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  In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.

• Number the Stars

  Lowry, Lois

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  In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

• The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

  Curtis, Christopher Paul

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  The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

• Bud, Not Buddy

  Curtis, Christopher Paul

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  Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

• In the Tunnel

  Lee, Julie (Children's fiction writer)

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  Fourteen-year-old Myung-gi flees North Korea with his family during the height of the devastating Korean War, beginning an epic struggle for survival that pushes them to the brink.

• Remember Us

  Woodson, Jacqueline

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  The summer before seventh grade, as the constant threat of housefires looms over her Brooklyn neighborhood, basketball-loving Sage is trying to figure out her place in her circle of friends, when a new kid named Freddy moves in.

• The Blackbird Girls

  Blankman, Anne

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  Told in alternating perspectives among three girls--Valentina and Oksana in 1986 and Rifka in 1941--this story shows that hatred, intolerance, and oppression are no match for the power of true friendship.

• Woods Runner

  Paulsen, Gary

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  From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Soul Lanterns

  Kuzki, Shaw, 1957-

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  Joining her family every year at Hiroshima’s lantern-floating ceremony in honor of those lost in the nuclear bombings of World War II, 12-year-old Nozomi asks about her mother’s unnamed lantern and how its reflects an urgent need for world peace.

• The Bluest Sky

  Gonzalez, Christina Diaz, 1969-

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  Surviving in communist Cuba as a supporter of the regime, Héctor is torn between staying in the only home he's ever known or moving forward to an unknown future when his mother announces she wants the family to risk everything to go to the U.S.

• The Star That Always Stays

  Johnson, Anna Rose

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  In 1914, Norvia moves from the country to the city, where her mother forces her to pretend she's not Native American, and when faced with numerous changes and the looming threat of world war, Norvia must find the courage to reveal who she truly is.