https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3 Check out this Rebecca Caudill list of 20 awesome books to read! en-us 2020-10-14 11:29:35 UTC 2023-02-27 17:02:58 UTC hello@padlet.com dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828216372 The book recounts his childhood and timid teenage years in NYC, his transformation into a basketball phenomenon, his success on the court, and his spiritual growth and conversion to Islam.]]> 2020-10-14 11:30:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828216372 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828217158 After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think–she just acts, stealing the book and running away.

]]> 2020-10-14 11:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828217158 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828217871 Sweep is the story of 11 year old chimney sweep Nan Sparrow. It is set in London in 1875 when "masters" used indentured children or orphans to climb and clean the narrow chimneys. It was dangerous work and many children died from fires, falls and sickness.]]> 2020-10-14 11:31:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828217871 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828218513 A shy, quiet drummer looks for her inner Rebel Girl at rock camp. The day before 13-year-old Melissa “Melly” Goodwin departs for Camp Rockaway, her parents make a heartbreaking announcement: They're splitting up. At least Melly doesn't have to deal alone; her best friend, Olivia Mendoza, a bassist, will be with her.]]> 2020-10-14 11:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828218513 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828219153 TWELVE DAYS IN MAY: FREEDOM RIDE 1961 details the harrowing journey of a racially mixed group of activists committed to the cause of social justice who ride a Greyhound Bus across the segregated South at the height of the civil rights movement.]]> 2020-10-14 11:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828219153 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828220317 A valuable peacock ring. A mysterious brother-sister duo. Paloma Marquez is traveling to Mexico City, birthplace of her deceased father, for the very first time. She's hoping that spending time in Mexico will help her unlock memories of the too-brief time they spent together.]]> 2020-10-14 11:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828220317 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828220940 Inspired by true incidents, The Only Road tells an individual story of a boy who feels that leaving his home and risking everything is his only chance for a better life. It is a story of fear and bravery, love and loss, strangers becoming family, and one boy's treacherous and life-changing journey]]> 2020-10-14 11:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828220940 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828221482 12-year-old Candice has to spend the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, due to her parents' divorce. When she and her mom take up residence in her deceased grandmother's house, Candice finds a letter alluding to a town tragedy and offering clues to a mysterious fortune.]]> 2020-10-14 11:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828221482 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828222280 A treacherous voyage across the open seas is the last hope for safety and freedom for five young people from around the world. The phenomenon of desperate refugees risking their lives to reach safety is not new. For hundreds of years, people have left behind family, friends, and all they know in hope of a better life.]]> 2020-10-14 11:34:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828222280 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828223035 Fourteen-year-old Ahmed fled a life of uncertainty and suffering in Syria, only to lose his father on the perilous journey to the shores of Europe. Thirteen-year-old Max never wanted to move from America to Brussels, Belgium and continue his life of failure, this time at a French-speaking school.]]> 2020-10-14 11:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828223035 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828223806 The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl is about a home-schooled math whiz with obsessive compulsive disorder trying to get by in middle school.]]> 2020-10-14 11:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828223806 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828224834 Using forged papers and her fair features, Chaya becomes a courier and travels between the Jewish ghettos of Poland, smuggling food, papers, and even people. Soon Chaya joins a resistance cell that runs raids on the Nazis' supplies. But after a mission goes terribly wrong, Chaya's network shatters.]]> 2020-10-14 11:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828224834 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828225634 Spirit Hunters, an intense middle grade mystery series about Harper Raine, the new seventh grader in town who must face down the dangerous ghosts haunting her younger brother.]]> 2020-10-14 11:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828225634 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828226176 Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she'd also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.]]> 2020-10-14 11:37:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828226176 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828227267 Bookish Amal, who lives in a small village in Punjab, Pakistan, dreams of becoming a teacher and a poet. When she inadvertently insults Jawad, the son of her village's wealthy and influential, but corrupt, landlord, Khan Sahib, she is forced into indentured servitude with his family.]]> 2020-10-14 11:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828227267 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828228009 With his reputation, self-respect and the friendship he values most on the line, can Jelly find the courage to get up in front of the whole school and show his true self? Laugh-out-loud funny, Speechless is about standing up to bullying, knowing who your friends are and finding your own unique voice.]]> 2020-10-14 11:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828228009 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828228550  Nightbooks by J.A. White (The Thickety) is a creepy tale with elements of the Brothers Grimm and the Arabian Nights, in which a boy is held captive by a witch in a magical apartment and forced to tell stories every night to stay alive.]]> 2020-10-14 11:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828228550 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828228908 Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed.]]> 2020-10-14 11:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828228908 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828249959 Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.]]> 2020-10-14 11:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/828249959 dickinsons https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/830501066 Scythe, the first in the Arc of Scythe series, is set in the far future, where death by natural causes has been virtually eliminated thanks to advances in technology, and an advanced computer system known as the "Thunderhead" controls society.]]> 2020-10-14 23:30:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dickinsons/24794zggo31o5od3/wish/830501066