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100

This amusing book by Taro Gomi has helped many parents by making potty training fun.

What is Everybody Poops?

100

This book by an American author and cartoonist, Jeff Kinney, is about the life of a middle school boy.

What is Diary of a Wimpy Kid?

100

This book by Suzanne Collins  is about a dystopian society in which tributes fight to the death.

What is The Hunger Games?

100

This book written by Katherine Applegate is written from the point of view of a gorilla living in a mall.

What is The One and Only Ivan?

100

This murder mystery by Delia Owens is about a girl named Kyra growing up in the marshlands of North Carolina.

What is Where the Crawdads Sing?

200

This book by H. A. Rey is about an amusing little monkey.  

What is Curious George?

200

This inspiring and heartwarming book by RJ Palacio is the story of a boy named August Pullman.

What is Wonder?

200

In this book by Angie Thomas, the main character, Star, witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend. 

What is The Hate You Give?

200

This book by Rita Williams-Garcia is a heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls who travel to Oakland, California in 1968 in search of their mother.

What is One Crazy Summer"

200

This terrifying book by Stephen King is about a family residing in a remote hotel over a long winter.

What is The Shining?

300

This book by Laura Nemeroff tells about a hungry little rodent who comes looking for a sweet snack.

What is If You Give a Mouse a Cookie?

300

This story by Shel Silverstein is a story about the relationship between and an apple tree and a boy.

What is The Giving Tree?

300

This book by Alice Oseman tells the story of Charlie and Nick - two British school boys who attend Truham Grammar school - as they meet and fall in love.

What is Heartstopper?

300

This book by Jerry Craft is about a 12 year-old boy who experiences culture shock when he enrolls in a private school.

What is New Kid?

300

This Pulitzer winner by Alice Walker tells the story of Celie, a young African American woman who faces oppression and abuse as she finds strength and deep connections with her women friends.

What is The Color Purple?

400
This book by Patricia Pollaco is about a teacher who helped her learn to read.

What is Thank You Mr. Falker?

400

This book by Louis Sachar is about the consequences of choice and fate.

What is Holes?

400

This book by Elizabeth Acevado follows the lives of two sisters who are unaware of each other as their lives are upended when the plane their father is flying on crashes.

What is Clap When You Land?

400

This book by Carl Haissen features a new kid and his bully, alligators, some burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and several extremely poisonous snakes.

What is Hoot?
400

This alternate history novel by Coleson Whitehead is about Cora, a slave, who makes a bid for freedom by following a rail transport system with safe houses and secret routes.

What is The Underground Railroad?

500

This book by David Shannon is about a little boy who is always into mischief.

What is No David?

500

This graphic novel by CeCe Bell helps readers better understand and communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing.

What is El Deafo?

500

This 1951 book by JD Salinger tells the story of the two days of life of a 16 year-old boy after he has been expelled from prep school.

What is Catcher in the Rye?

500

This book by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi explores racism - and antiracism - in America and makes critical ideas accessible to teen readers.

What is Stamped:  Racism, Antiracism, and You?

500

This story by Isabel Allende is about the Trueba family, spanning four generations, and tracing the postcolonial social upheavals of Chile.

What is La Casa de Los Espiritus?

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What is The House of the Spirits?

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