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1. New Kid
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New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 1.
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4 stars
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Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature!
Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft.
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing
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3 stars
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In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
3. The giver
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Giver quartet volume 1.
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4.1 stars
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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2.
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4.3 stars
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A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
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4.2 stars
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Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
6. Dragonwings
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Golden mountain chronicles volume 5.
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In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.