El deafo by Cece Bell Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and [...]
Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. -MLN Network Catalog The War the Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley A young disabled girl and her [...]
The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire Book #1) by Tui Sutherland Clay has lived his whole life under the mountain. The MudWing dragonet knows war is raging between the dragon tribes in the world outside - a war that he and four other dragonets are destined to end, according to the mysterious prophecy they have [...]
Count Me In by Varsha Bajaj Issues: Anti-immigrant Sentiment Told from two viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris use social media to stand up to racism in Houston, Texas, after an attack puts Karina's Indian American grandfather in the hospital. -MLN Catalog Request from Minuteman Library Network https://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3858231 Request from Libby/Overdrive https://minuteman.overdrive.com/minuteman-millis/content/media/4455479 You Don’t Know Everything [...]
