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The River of Sand
by Kobe Bryant
A highly anticipated sequel to Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof finds Pretia, the Princess of Epoca, returning to Ecrof, the elite magical sports academy. She knows that her destiny is to rule Epoca, but right now, all she wants is to be selected for the Junior Epic Games team so that she can compete against the best young athletes and bring honor to her people. But as rumors begin to swirl about unrest surrounding the Games, Pretia realizes that she might have to decide which is more important: being an athlete or being a leader.
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Never After : The Thirteenth Fairy
by Melissa De La Cruz
Nothing ever happens in Filomena Jefferson-Cho’s sleepy little suburban town of North Pasadena. But one day, when Filomena is walking home, something strange happens. Filomena is being followed by Jack Stalker, one of the heroes in the Thirteenth Fairy, a series of books she loves about a brave girl and her ragtag group of friends who save their world from an evil enchantress. Jack is insistent―he’s real, the stories are real, and Filomena must come with him at once to help save the kingdom of Westphalia and find the truth behind the fairytales.
Series alert: This is the first book in the Never After series.
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Alone
by Megan E. Freeman
When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She’s alone—left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. Can Maddie’s stubborn will to survive carry her through the most frightening experience of her life?
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Just Like That
by Gary D. Schmidt
Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing the gang's relentless, destructive pursuit. Both young people gradually dispel their loneliness, finding a way to be hopeful and also finding each other.
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Wolfwalkers
by Ross Stewart
Incorporating exclusive original art, a graphic-novel adaptation of the hand-animated WolfWalkers film follows the story of a hunter’s daughter who resolves to protect a pack of endangered wolves and the woodland shapeshifter tribe that communicates with them.
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February is Black History Month |
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Legacy : Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
by Nikki Grimes
A feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance--paired with full-color, original art from today's most talented female African-American illustrators.
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Race Against Time : The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men
by Sandra Neil Wallace
In October 1919, a group of Black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkansas village to organize a union. Bullets rained down on the meeting from outside. Many were killed by a white mob, and others were rounded up and arrested. Twelve of the sharecroppers were hastily tried and sentenced to death. Up stepped Scipio Africanus Jones, a self-taught lawyer who'd been born enslaved. Could he save the men's lives and set them free? Through their in-depth research and consultation with legal experts, award-winning nonfiction authors Sandra and Rich Wallace examine the complex proceedings and an unsung African American early civil rights hero.
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Unspeakable : The Tulsa Race Massacre
by Carole Boston Weatherford
The Greenwood District in Tulsa was a thriving Black community following the Emancipation Proclamation. In 1921, a white mob attacked the community and burned it to the ground. News of the event was mostly suppressed and no investigation occurred for more than 75 years. This book sensitively introduces young readers to this tragedy and concludes with a call for a better future. Includes photographs of Greenwood at the time of the massacre and today.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 10-13!
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