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NEA Read Across America
TITLES FOR MIDDLE GRADE READERS
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Shy Stella loves marine animals but worries about finding the right words to make a presentation about them to her third-grade class.
The dead are never gone and the spirits of murdered African
American boys have a mission to continue on and bear witness.
Learn more about the Constitution and how to uphold its principles from a citizen who is passionate about his adopted country. Launched into the world of Hindu gods, Aru faces the Sleeper demon from the Lamp of Bharata—in her Spider-Man pajamas. Explore activism, social justice, volunteerism, equity, inclusion, and how to use social media for good while “keeping it real” with Marley.
After her mother’s death, a scheming aunt Wavie has never known, moves Wavie to her mama’s childhood home in Conley Holler.
Vera finally talks her mom into sending her to summer camp, but the Russian Orthodox camp isn’t one that her friends go to.
Irene and Charles end up as partners for a poem-writing project—and the poems they write focus on family, friends, food, and what they learn about race and the world around them.
Short stories drawn from true accounts offer moving portraits of the hardships and victories of the diverse Latinos who live in the United States.
When his Doberman Sinbad is diagnosed with cancer, Conor gives up some of his hockey lessons to
help pay for Sinbad’s treatment.
In her diary, Nisha writes letters to her late mother about having to leave their home after the partition of India creates the country
of Pakistan. Get an inside look at the rigorous training and work required to make it all the way to outer space from athlete-turned-astronaut Leland Melvin.
TITLES FOR TEEN READERS
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Understand the hurdles Sara and her family faced to rebuild their lives after fleeing Iran and the anxiety that being an undocumented immigrant added to her awkward teenage years. Autumn, Logan, and Shay have each lost someone they loved and seek healing in friendship and music to cope with their individual grief.
By day, Prince Sebastian is heir to the throne; by night, he’s the fashionable Lady Crystallia made all the more fabulous by Frances, his secret dressmaker.
The experience of being a
Native American woman is vividly illustrated in poems, essays, interviews, photographs, and art. The true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California. Everyone has a dream—and this poem is a reminder to all the dreamers that their dreams matter.
After a horrific bombing, Tareq must travel with his father and one surviving younger sister, Susan, from war-torn Syria to Turkey to Greece.
Harvard-hopeful Genie meets Quentin and is distracted by his good looks and his insistence that she has supernatural powers that she must use to help him fight demons.
Three generations of women in the Das family struggle to find their places in the world and to accept one another and their life choices.
After the death of her dutiful older sister, Olga, rebellious Julia deals with her family’s grief and the discovery of her sister’s
secret double life.
Meet 29 feisty females—some world famous, some little known—
in this collective comic biography. While ruthlessly pursued by Prince Inan, Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue Princess Amari, fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi.
