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The story follows a young and adventures girl named Abilene who is sent to Manifest, Kansas by her father in the summer of 1936 while he worked a railroad job somewhere else. She arrived there to find that it was run-down and greatly affected by the Great Depression
Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (2011)
In this terrible tale little Hugo has to prove his manliness to the King (his father) by killing a wild boar in the year 1255.
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (2008)
The book follows a young boy named CJ as he learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things during a bus ride.
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña (2016)
This book by Chris Raschka in 2012, is about how one dog's toy is destroyed by another bigger dog.
A Ball for Daisy (2012)
Two companies met in Utah to construct a train station. The purpose of the train station was so that it would take less time to travel. Before they built the station traveling from coast to coast would take up six months which was difficult and dangerous because travelers traveled by wagons on land or by ship.
Locomotive by Brian Floca (2014)
This is a story of a unique mouse that can talk and loves fairy tales. He falls in love with a human princess named “Pea.” He eventually saves the princess from rats. The book is told in four parts from the perspective of three of the book’s characters.
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (2004)
The story follows two African-American twin brothers that share a love for basketball but find themselves drifting apart as they head into their junior high school years. They also run into many obstacles that they must overcome.
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (2015)
This book is about a gorilla who has been in a glass enclosure at a mall for 27 years with his friends Stella and Bob, but when a baby elephant that has got taken from the wild named Ruby comes, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes.
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
In this story a girl named Annabelle finds a box full of yarn and knits sweaters for everyone and everything in town, but then somebody steals the magic box only to discover there’s no yarn left and returns it to Annabelle.
Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett (2013)
In this spare, nearly wordless picture book, a girl and a wolf cub each get lost in the snow and rescue each other.
Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell (2018)
FLora Belle Buckman, a self-proclaimed cynic, spends her time reading comic books and struggling to understand her parents’ recent divorce. She is jolted into action when the neighbour runs over a squirrel with a vacuum cleaner. The squirrel’s brush with death causes him to develop so called superpowers.
Flora and Ulysses BY : Kate Dicamillo (2014).
This book takes place during the summer after the American schoolboy Jack Gantos fires his father's war trophy, a Japanese sniper rifle thinking it is unloaded, but a bullet somehow flies out. As punishment, he must stay in the house except as sent by his mother to help their elderly neighbor Miss Volker whom, upon Jack's arrival, boils her hands in water and bites off the blisters, which results in Jack getting a nosebleed.
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (2012)
This book takes place in the Upper West Side in New York during 1978 and 1979 and follows the protagonist, Miranda Sinclair. She receives a strange note asking her to record future events and write down to the location of her spare key. As the novel progresses, Miranda receives three more notes with requests. The novel contains three story lines — the appearance of Miranda's mom on the game show, The $20,000 Pyramid, Miranda's best friend Sal suddenly not talking with Miranda, and the appearance of a laughing man.
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (2010)
A ferocious lion spares a tiny mouse, which comes to his rescue by saving him from a poacher’s trap.
The and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (2010)
The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is a 2016 picture book biography. Using a style similar to Basquiat's, the book tells the story of his childhood and early career.
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
In the early 1950s, Katie and her family live in Iowa, where her parents own a Japanese supermarket. When the store goes out of business in 1956, the family moves from Iowa to an apartment in Georgia where Katie's parents work at a hatchery with other Japanese families.
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (2005)
A child marked for death by an ancient league of assassins escapes into an abandoned graveyard, where he is reared and protected by it’s spirit denizens.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2009)
The book tells how Luna, after being raised by a witch, must figure out how to handle the magical powers she was accidentally given.
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (2017)
In this book, by Jon Klassen, The little fish steals the big fishes hat even though he knows it’s not right, his excuse… “it fits him just right!”
This is Not My Hat by Jo Klassen (2013).
This is a children's book that tells the story of the real-life bear which became the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh.
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear
This book follows the lives of 14-year-olds in a small town, each at their own crossroads. This ensemble cast explores new thoughts and feelings in their quest to find the meaning of life and love.
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (2006)
Believing that her French guardian is going to leave her at an orphanage, 10 year old Lucky runs away with her dog across the Mojave desert.
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (2007)
The novel is told from the perspectives of four middle school students as one of them becomes trapped inside of a well.
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly (2018)
This book takes children back to the days when farmers worked with ox and sled, and cut the dark with lantern light. It introduces Wilson Bentley, a boy who loved snow more than anything else in the world, and determined, that one day his camera would capture the extraordinary and unique beauty of snowflakes.
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (1999)
Beekle is an imaginary friend who decides to leave the island where these friends wait to be called into being by a child. After a day exploring the world and being scared, Beekle climbs a tree and cries. It is then that he meets Alice and the two become friends. The book is told exclusively from Beekle's point of view.
The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend