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The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Door of No Return #1

The Door of No Return

Kwame Alexander

418 pages • 2022 • 8 editions

fiction historical middle grade young adult adventurous sad fast-paced
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Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes

Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes

208 pages • 2022 • 4 editions

nonfiction graphic novel memoir middle grade race sports informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
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Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Lauren Tamaki, Elizabeth Partridge

Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

Lauren Tamaki, Elizabeth Partridge

132 pages • 4 editions

nonfiction history emotional informative sad medium-paced
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

430 pages • 2022 • 23 editions

nonfiction graphic novel memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse by Alora Young

Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse

Alora Young

240 pages • 2022 • 4 editions

nonfiction biography memoir poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
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The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor

The Legend of Auntie Po

Shing Yin Khor

304 pages • 2021 • 3 editions

fiction graphic novel historical lgbtqia+ middle grade emotional reflective medium-paced
5.0 javalibra...'s review
Booked: Graphic Novel by Kwame Alexander

The Crossover: Graphic Novel #2

Booked: Graphic Novel

Kwame Alexander

320 pages • 2022 • 6 editions

fiction graphic novel middle grade sports emotional medium-paced
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The Crossover: Graphic Novel by Kwame Alexander

The Crossover: Graphic Novel #1

The Crossover: Graphic Novel

Kwame Alexander

224 pages • 2019 • 8 editions

fiction graphic novel middle grade sports emotional medium-paced
5.0 javalibra...'s review
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Renée Watson

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

Nikole Hannah-Jones, Renée Watson

48 pages • 2021 • 6 editions

nonfiction childrens history poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
5.0 javalibra...'s review
The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny

Chief Inspector Gamache #17

The Madness of Crowds

Louise Penny

448 pages • 2021 • 23 editions

fiction mystery emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
5.0 javalibra...'s review