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Young Hoosier Book Award Middle Grade |
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Pretend She's Here
by Luanne Rice
Grieving the loss of a best friend who died a year earlier, Lizzie reaches out to her late friend's visiting family only to discover that they have become so desperate with loss that they kidnap her. By the award-winning author of The Secret Language of Sisters.
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The Canyon's Edge
by Dusti Bowling
Accompanying her father on a slot-canyon expedition in the Arizona desert a year after a random shooting changed their family forever, Nora is separated from her father and their supplies by a flash flood and must navigate the deadly natural hazards of the desert to survive.
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City of the Plague God
by Sarwat Chadda
Sik, like all teens, just wants to feel "normal". All that changes when he learns he's immortal and faces a battle with some of ancient Mesopotamia's fiercest mythical creatures.
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Efrén Divided
by Ernesto Cisneros
Worrying about his undocumented parents, who have worked hard to secure a safe life for their family, a young Mexican American struggles to find his inner courage when his beloved mother is arrested and deported. He must let his inner "Soperboy" shine to bring his family back together.
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The Only Black Girls in Town
by Brandy Colbert
Ecstatic to hear that another African American family has moved into town, surfer Alberta attempts to make friends with homesick newcomer Edie, who helps her uncover painful local secrets in a box of old journals.
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My Life as a Potato
by Arianne Costner
Believing himself to be cursed by potatoes, Ben moves to a formidable potato-laden community in Idaho, where an accident leads him to become his school’s secret potato mascot.
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Scritch Scratch
by Lindsay Currie
Reluctantly assisting her father’s latest ghost-themed Chicago bus tour, an avid young scientist glimpses a mysterious, sad-eyed boy in the back of the bus who disappears before she starts hearing and seeing bizarre phenomena.
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96 miles
by J. L. Esplin
During a massive blackout in rural Nevada, two brothers struggle to survive without their self-reliance-obsessed dad and without enough water to cross the desert for help. To survive, they must travel 96 miles through the desert for basic supplies.
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Dress Coded
by Carrie Firestone
Fed up with sexist dress codes and unfair conduct standards at a school where girls’ bodies are considered a distraction, Molly starts a podcast to protest the school’s disciplinary inequality before her small rebellion swells into a full-blown empowerment revolution.
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Redwood and Ponytail
by K. A Holt
A novel in verse about self-acceptance and discovering bonds follows the experiences of two teen girls, an athlete and a cheerleader, who must overcome social barriers that stand in the way of their growing relationship. By the author of Knockout.
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When Stars are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson
A Somali refugee who spent his childhood at the Dadaab camp and the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl present the graphic-novel story of a young refugee who struggles with leaving behind his nonverbal brother when he has an opportunity to help his family by going to school.
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Whispering Pines
by Heidi Lang
Relocated to a new community a year after her father’s unexplained disappearance, a girl who is convinced her father left against his will races to uncover secrets about the eerie transformations of several local kids. By the author of the Mystic Cooking Chronicles.
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Bloom
by Kenneth Oppel
When the world is overtaken by monster alien plants that emit toxic pollens and swallow up people, three kids on a remote island look for clues in their unusual allergies to understand their immunity to the invaders.
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In the Hall With the Knife
by Diana Peterfreund
This re-imagined version of the board game Clue is set on the campus of a remote boarding school where teen versions of the classic players must solve who killed their headmaster.
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City Spies
by James Ponti
Sara Martinez is facing years in the juvenile detention system for hacking into the foster care computer system to prove that her foster parents are crooks. But then she gets a second chance when a mysterious man offers her a chance to join a group of MI6 affiliated spies.
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Black Brother, Black Brother
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Routinely compared to his submissive lighter-skinned brother, a Black boy at an elitist prep school is unfairly suspended in the wake of an incident involving the school bully, whom he tries to defeat in a fencing competition. By the award-winning author of Ghost Boys.
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Yara's Spring
by Jamal Saeed
Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother, Saad, can't speak--struck silent by everything he's seen. Now, with her friend Shireen and Shireen's charismatic brother, Ali, Yara must try to find a way to safety. With danger around every corner, Yara is pushed to her limits as she discovers how far she'll go for her loved ones--and for a chance for freedom.
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Clean Getaway
by Nic Stone
For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane.
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Genesis Begins Again
by Alicia Williams
Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is. Can she overcome the 96 things she dislikes and discover a new path to self-acceptance?
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Before the Ever After
by Jacqueline Woodson
The son of an idolized pro-football star begins noticing the contrast between his father’s angry, forgetful behavior and his superhero reputation before adjusting to a new reality involving difficult symptoms stemming from his father’s numerous head injuries. How can ZJ help his father, and more importantly, remember his own happy past?
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