Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, An International Art Dealer...
“Hollywood art dealer Ron Hall and former Louisiana indentured servant Denver Moore reflect on their lives and the friendship that was established between them thanks to Ron’s late wife Deborah’s...
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Lily’s Crossing, by Patricia Reilly Giff (c1997)
It’s the summer of 1944, and Lily goes with her Grandmother to their family’s beach house in Rockaway, New York. Lily happily anticipates weekend visits from her father and carefree days spent with...
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My Louisiana Sky, by Kimberly Willis Holt (c1998)
Its the summer of 1957, and Tiger Ann lives with her parents and Granny in the small town of Saitter, Louisiana. Tiger Ann’s parents are different. Some folks would use the word retarded to describe...
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You Will Be My Friend! by Peter Brown (c2011)
Follett Titlewave Lucy the bear enthusiastically announces to her mother that she is going to make a new friend. Unfortunately, no matter what strategy Lucy uses–introducing herself, trying to fit in,...
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Chicken Boy, by Frances O’Roark Dowell (c2005)
Follett Titlewave “Since the death of his mother, Tobin’s family life and school life have been in disarray, but after he starts raising chickens with his seventh-grade classmate, Henry, everything...
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Palace of Mirrors, by Margaret Peterson Haddix (c2008)
Follett Title Fourteen-year-old Cecilia knows that she is a true princess even though she has been raised as a peasant. Her parents, the king and queen of Suala, were killed soon after her birth and...
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How to Survive Middle School, by Donna Gephart (c2010)
Follett Titlewave Sixth-grader David Greenberg is worried about middle school. It doesn’t help that his mother has left their family and his best friend has left him to hang out with the school bully....
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I’m Here, by Peter H. Reynolds (c2011)
Follett Titlewave While classmates play happily at recess, a young boy sits alone, at a distance from the others, covering his ears. He hears the playgound sounds as one big noise. We hear his...
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Faith, Hope, and Ivy June, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (c2009)
Follett Titlewave Two seventh-grade Kentucky girls–one from a private school in Lexington and the other from a public school in the “hollows” of the Cumberland Gap–participate in a student exchange...
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable, by John Boyne (c2006)
When his father is promoted to Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Follett Titlewave nine-year-old Bruno moves with his family from Berlin to “Out-With” . Their new home overlooks the camp, so...
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