https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm A collection of diverse titles for young adults or middle graders en-us 2022-08-10 16:25:08 UTC 2022-10-24 18:52:48 UTC hello@padlet.com hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318089526 In Saigon in 1975, 10-year-old Kim Hà celebrates Tet (New Year) with her mother and three older brothers; none of them guesses at the changes the Year of the Cat will bring.]]> 2022-09-28 18:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318089526 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318093815 Through the story of fifth-grader Mia Tang, readers experience the courage, hard work, and dreams of a young Chinese immigrant.]]> 2022-09-28 18:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318093815 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318097171 Millicent Min, an 11 year old in her senior year of high school, meets Emily, a potential friend, who knows nothing about her achievements.]]> 2022-09-28 18:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318097171 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318101773 Yee’s companion to Millicent Min, Girl Genius (2003) tells the story of the same pivotal summer that Millicent tutors Stanford Wong—but this time through Stanford’s eyes.]]> 2022-09-28 18:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318101773 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318105543 Jordan Banks takes readers down the rabbit hole and into his mostly white prep school in this heartbreakingly accurate middle-grade tale of race, class, microaggressions, and the quest for self-identity. ]]> 2022-09-28 18:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318105543 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318107981 Patina "Patty" Jones is the fastest girl on the Defenders track team. Makes sense; she's got a lot to run for. ]]> 2022-09-28 18:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318107981 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318110516 Twelve-year-old Shayla finds herself in trouble when she wears a Black Lives Matter armband, which violates her school’s dress code. ]]> 2022-09-28 18:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318110516 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318114077 Native American identity issues are explored in this ambitiously structured memoir in verse. ]]> 2022-09-28 18:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318114077 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318117653 Cynthia Leitich Smith tells the story of a teenage girl who must face down her grief and reclaim her place in the world with the help of her intertribal community. ]]> 2022-09-28 18:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318117653 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318120220 A10-year-old Choctaw boy recounts the beginnings of the forced resettlement of his people from their Mississippi-area homelands in 1830. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318120220 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318123047 17-year-old Marcelo Sandoval gets a life-changing taste of the “real world” when he’s forced to take a summer job in his father’s law firm. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318123047 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318125662 Mysti Murphy has a knack for storytelling. It gives her what her family can’t: adventures beyond her front door. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318125662 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318127664 George, a fourth-grader who knows she is a girl, despite appearances, begins to tell her secret. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:05:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318127664 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318129833 An Indian American boy struggles with his sexuality and mental health while finding a place for himself in seventh grade. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318129833 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318131462 At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318131462 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318133356 In the midst of political turmoil, how do you escape the only country that you’ve ever known and navigate a new life? Parallel stories of three different middle school–aged refugees—Josef from Nazi Germany in 1938, Isabel from 1994 Cuba, and Mahmoud from 2015 Aleppo—eventually intertwine for maximum impact. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318133356 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318134992 Two unlikely teens find a connection despite the reluctance of one and the vastly different life obstacles they confront. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318134992 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318137844 A boy and his wheelchair-basketball team try to salvage their season in sportswriter Ostler’s debut novel. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318137844 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318139329 A memoir about growing up in a family as it grapples with addiction, finding the people who help get you through, and the art that helps you survive. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318139329 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318140582 Seen through the eyes of three seventh-graders, a prison escape upends daily life in a small Adirondack town. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:14:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318140582 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318149873 Massachusetts seventh-grader Clea loves magic and chess, hates math, but no matter how hard she tries, she struggles to finish homework and tests on time. When teachers and the school counselor suggest her struggles may be related to ADHD, Clea is resistant to diagnosis and treatment. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318149873 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318156061 Living in a tourist town on the Syrian coastline, Jude experiences the inequalities in her society firsthand, when her older brother wants to join protests against the Syrian regime and with news of a new baby, Jude and her mother travel to join her uncle, medical doctor, in the American Midwest. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318156061 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318164076 Eleven-year-old Maximiliano Córdoba is ready for an idyllic summer, but when he must provide his birth certificate to join the fútbol team, and the document disappeared years ago, along with his mother, he must choose between his own dreams and those of others. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318164076 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318178553 A collection of stories that amplify the central role food plays in families and cultures. The web of stories in this anthology unfolds in Hungry Heart Row, a neighborhood renowned for their great food, unsurpassed hospitality, and—in some cases—magical meals to cure every malady. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318178553 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318182910 Fifteen-year-old Julia Reyes is nothing like her sister, “Saint Olga,” but after the death of her dutiful older sister, Julia must deal with grieving parents and the discovery that her sister was keeping secrets. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318182910 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318188259 Seventeen-year-old Afro-Boricua Emoni Santiago hones her gift for cooking, and Emoni’s ’Buela says she’s had a gift for cooking since she was small. Now Emoni has her own toddler, Emma, who starts daycare the same day Emoni enters senior year. With the new changes, Emoni has to make important decisions about her future. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:51:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318188259 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318196413 Lily Hu has spent all her life in San Francisco’s Chinatown, keeping mostly to her Chinese American community both in and out of school, but when a budding relationship develops with her first White friend, Kathleen, the two explore their sexuality as well as their relationship to each other. ]]> 2022-09-28 19:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318196413 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318200051 16-year-old Amal Shahid is an art student and poet whose life dramatically shifts after he is accused of assaulting a White boy, drawing out serious questions around the treatment of Black youth. ]]> 2022-09-28 20:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318200051 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318204957 Sunny Lancaster is a home-schooled almost-13-year-old torn between duty to run and passion for dance in the latest compulsively readable installment of Reynolds’ lauded Track series. ]]> 2022-09-28 20:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318204957 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318206593 Sixteen-year-old Jade dreams of success beyond her neighborhood despite the prejudices that surround her. ]]> 2022-09-28 20:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318206593 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318208303 Cooler-than-cool newcomer Styx Malone takes the more-sheltered brothers Caleb and Bobby Gene on a mischievous, path-altering, summer adventure of a lifetime as they embrace the extraordinary possibilities beyond the everyday in rural Indiana. ]]> 2022-09-28 20:07:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318208303 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318212412 Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman is known for being the first child born free from the settlement in Buxton, Canada. When his friend's money to buy his wife and children's freedom is stolen, Elijah journeys to America and risks his life to do what’s right. ]]> 2022-09-28 20:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318212412 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318219089 After receiving a letter from her incarcerated father, whom she’s never met, 12-year-old Zoe sets out to prove his innocence while balancing friendships and her goal to be a contestant on Food Network’s Kids Bake Challenge. ]]> 2022-09-28 20:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318219089 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318221594 Born during a storm, Caroline Murphy, a 12-year-old black girl, she is bullied by those at her Catholic school for her skin, which is darker than her peers. But when a new student from Barbados joins her, feelings blossom into something more than platonic. ]]> 2022-09-28 20:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318221594 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318227785 Sometimes it takes a family to tell a story. The twins reintroduce the characters of Charlie and Callie, Charlie navigates not only repeating ninth grade, particularly having to stay in special ed while Callie advances to 10th grade, and the challenges that follow. ]]> 2022-09-28 20:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318227785 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318232718 Speaking up is hard when you’re shy, and it can be even harder if you’ve got two languages in your head, and third-grader Estrella “Stella” Díaz, is no exception. When a new student arrives in her class, she must figure out how to grow her confidence. ]]> 2022-09-28 20:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2318232718 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2322785240 Omar Mohamed lives in Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya with his younger brother, Hassan, who has a seizure disorder, and Fatuma, an elderly woman assigned to foster them in their parents’ absence. The book covers six years, during which Omar struggles with decisions about attending school and how much hope to have about opportunities to resettle in a new land, like the United States. ]]> 2022-10-02 17:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2322785240 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2322787800 Rebeka Uwitonze, raised in Bugesera, Rwanda, was born with arthrogryposis, which caused her joints to contract, resulting in curled and twisted feet. When a family in Austin, Texas, offers to host Rebeka so she can receive surgery that will enable her to walk for the rest of her life, she has to decide to leave her family behind. ]]> 2022-10-02 17:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2322787800 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2322790201 Six months after her parents’ divorce, Candice and her mother leave Atlanta to spend the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, at her grandmother’s old house. But when she starts rummaging through the attic, she discovers an old letter that details a mysterious fortune and asks Abigail to find the treasure. ]]> 2022-10-02 18:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2322790201 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2322792833 Just arrived from Bangalore, Ravi Suryanarayanan is eager to make friends at his new American school. When Ravi, Joe, and Dillon wind up in Mrs. Beam’s class, the trio are on a collision course that will end with the unlikeliest of friendships. ]]> 2022-10-02 18:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2322792833 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2322796591 Summer love rises between two boys in a bakery. Ari is stuck with sourdough starter at his family’s bakery instead of summer gigs in the city with his band, and hires another baker to take his place, Hector. The two grow close in more than just the kitchen. ]]> 2022-10-02 18:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2322796591 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2343807101 Sabriya, a Black Muslim teen, has big plans but a wave of Islamophobia after a terrorist attack at Union Station in Washington, D.C., shatters those dreams until she connects with two other Black Muslim teens: Zakat and Farah through online journals. ]]> 2022-10-17 18:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2343807101 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2343816615 Central themes emerge in this collection of short stories by a diverse and representative group of authors: courage, bravery, and a refusal to be silenced. ]]> 2022-10-17 18:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2343816615 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2343820938 Fifteen Latinx writers lend their voices and experiences to acutely personal narratives and poetry. ]]> 2022-10-17 18:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2343820938 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2343832690 Transitioning from life in Korea to America, a young woman struggles with change and figuring out where she fits. After her mother’s decision to marry a man in Alabama, 14-year-old Chuna, later going by Robin, grapples with culture shock, bullying, and integrating into a new family. ]]> 2022-10-17 18:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2343832690 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354134818 Two boys, one black and one white, act out an all-too-familiar drama when the former is brutally beaten during an arrest and the latter witnesses it. ]]> 2022-10-24 18:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354134818 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354144877 A memoir of the first 14 years in the life of Australian Robert Hoge, born with stunted legs and a tumor in the middle of his face. ]]> 2022-10-24 18:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354144877 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354149100 Teen social justice activist Dias shares her passion for changing the world. When Dias was in sixth grade, she was “sooo sick and tired of reading books about white boys and their dogs!” She wondered why her school’s required-reading list didn’t include any books by black authors, so she set out to change it. ]]> 2022-10-24 18:23:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354149100 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354155525 A guidebook for taking action against racism and will immediately draw attention to this book, designed to guide each reader on a personal journey to work to dismantle racism. ]]> 2022-10-24 18:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354155525 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354164017 Twelve-year-old Jilly has a lot going on. She’s crushing on Profound, a Deaf black boy, her newborn sister might be deaf, and her white parents gloss over news reports of unarmed black youth killed by police. She’s excited to talk to Profound, but he doesn’t like being reduced to only one of his identities. ]]> 2022-10-24 18:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354164017 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354173190 Tired of being harassed in the halls for her dark skin and homemade clothes, Maleeka latches on to tough, mouthy classmate Charlese for protection, although the cost is high: doing Charlese's homework and enduring her open contempt. ]]> 2022-10-24 18:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354173190 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354178172 A Pakistani-American girl starting middle school learns how to cope with the changes and challenges she faces at home, at school, and within her close-knit Muslim community. ]]> 2022-10-24 18:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354178172 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354183665 Adapted from an adult book of the same title, St. John tells the story of how Luma Mufleh formed a soccer team composed of young refugees from all over the world, rescued by the U.N. High Commission for Refugees and living together in a crime-ridden settlement in suburban Atlanta. ]]> 2022-10-24 18:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354183665 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354188989 A pen-pal correspondence between an American girl and a Zimbabwean boy blossoms into a lifelong friendship. In alternating chapters, the authors relate their story, which begins in 1997 when 12-year-old Caitlin chooses Martin, a boy in Zimbabwe, for a pen-pal assignment. ]]> 2022-10-24 18:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354188989 hmanchester1 https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354194338 Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden made themselves indispensable to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which became NASA in 1958. These four African-American mathematicians worked as NASA computers despite sexism and segregation which made their jobs extremely difficult. ]]> 2022-10-24 18:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hmanchester1/52t8u6sjff8dx7cm/wish/2354194338