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1) Gooseberry
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Robin Gow's Gooseberry is a moving middle-grade novel about a young nonbinary person searching for family and finding it with a sweet rescue dog.
There's a lot twelve-year-old B doesn't know-like what their new name should be after coming out as nonbinary. Or what it would feel like to finally feel at home after moving around to different foster families for years. But there's one thing B does know: they want to be a dog trainer when they grow up....
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"Many young readers will identify with the day-to-day trepidation felt by Jess, Meriwether, and the other families living on the base."
-VOYA, 3Q 4P M J
"Full of detail about Army life, Patterson's elegant prose brings readers deep inside Jess's conflicted point of view and the many stresses she is under, as she reevaluates her role as a member of a military family."
-Publishers Weekly
"Patterson poignantly depicts war's effect on those at home...
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"An enchanting, fast-paced fantasy in the vein of E. B. White."
-Booklist
"Charming black-and-white illustrations add to the overall effect of the story, which will remind readers of beloved works by Kate DiCamillo and E. B. White. . . . It's all rather old-fashioned and quite lovely."
-School Library Journal
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4) Blue
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Blue is living example of how brutal the foster system is. The only way she knows how to protect herself is by pushing everyone away, to detach herself from those around her.Trust isn't something she knows how to do. Self-sabotage on the other hand-it's her best talent.After another failed attempt at finding a family, Blue decides to run. She'd rather take her chances alone on the streets than go through another gruelling process of trying to fit...
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Maggie is always full of questions. But a young maid in a fine lady's house isn't supposed to wonder so much, so one day Maggie is thrown out into the street with only a tiny heart-shaped locket for a keepsake. Who is the lady in the locket?
A little dog named Oliver is pushing his nose along an icy sidewalk searching for his lost mistress, or at least something to eat. No matter how hard he looks he can't find either one, but he does see a girl...
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A runaway thrall. A clever thief. Together, two orphans will defy destiny or fall trying.
In the aftermath of a rebellion against William the Conqueror, northern England lies in ruins, its people scattered and starved.
Aelfric, a 14-year-old thrall, flees from his master and stumbles upon a cache of stolen laundry. The thief? Aliwyn, a girl around his age ostracized for being "cursed." In her care is a lost toddler she has rescued from the...
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"...the prose is precise, direct, and accessible, vividly calling up the drizzly fog and green pastures of the countryside without falling victim to overwrought descriptions. Lizzie's questioning of the decision-making of the adults around her will likely appeal to young readers learning that being grown up does not necessarily translate to being wise." -Bulletin "This tale will capture the minds of middle-grade readers and leave them wanting...
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Julie of the Wolves meets Hatchet in this middle grade novel that follows orphaned twelve-year-old Nika and her seven-year-old brother Randall as they leave a California foster home to visit a long-lost uncle in the wilderness lake country of Northern Minnesota. A phone call from their uncle sets them on a journey in a small floatplane over the thick green forest canopy, to spend the summer on a wilderness island. Nika, of all people, knows not to...
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10-year-old Jessica, who suffers from a physical disorder that prevents her from being able to smile, was given away to foster care at the young age of 4 years old. Due to her medical condition affecting her face, it proved too difficult for her biological mother to afford her care. Jessica Jones' time at the orphanage was filled with social challenges due to bullying and disappointments after witnessing many others leave the orphanage to their new...
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