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1) Booked
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Books for 6th Graders
Just Read It! (Project LIT Inspired)
Middle School Project Lit Titles
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Just Read It! (Project LIT Inspired)
Middle School Project Lit Titles
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"Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams"--OCLC.
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Caldecott Award Books
Farm Animals
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Farm Animals
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
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YA/JUV Historical Fiction List
Adventure Books for Kids
Banned Books That Shaped America
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Adventure Books for Kids
Banned Books That Shaped America
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Presents the adventures of an unusual dog, part Saint Bernard and part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
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Back to School
NYT - Children’s Picture Books
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
NYT - Children’s Picture Books
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them.
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Books to Act Out With Your Story Bag!
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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In this cumulative tale, a wakeful flea atop a number of sleeping creatures causes a commotion, with just one bite.
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But My Kid Used to Love to Read Inspo List
Fun Family Read-Alouds for 2nd Grade and Older
Mysteries for Kids
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback
Fun Family Read-Alouds for 2nd Grade and Older
Mysteries for Kids
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback
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"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
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Set in mid-17th century Boston, this tale of passion, puritanism and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature. Its heroine, Hester Prynne, is compelled by her own moral autonomy to wear the scarlet letter but she emerges as a woman with her integrity intact.
12) Inkheart
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Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
13) The book thief
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YA/JUV Historical Fiction List
Coming of Age Stories for Teens
Favorites from your favorite Bellevue staff
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Coming of Age Stories for Teens
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
14) Poppleton
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Poppleton the pig moves from the city to a small town, where he makes new friends and spends Mondays reading adventure books in the library.
16) The Losers Club
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Principal Vance warns Alec to pay attention in class, or else--but Alec loves reading too much. So, he starts the Losers Club, intending to be the only member, just to have free reading time to himself. Astonishingly, other kids join the club, and Alec begins to realize that his life could be just as interesting as the stories he loves.