2021-2022 Virginia Readers' Choice
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Other Words From Homeby Jasmine Warga
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Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.Loading...
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Teenage GirlsLoading...
Syria--immigration and emigration--FictionLoading...
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Spy Runnerby Eugene Yelchin
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There are two essential ingredients that separate Noir fiction from the rest of the mystery-crime genre. A protagonist lacking a moral center and an unhappy ending. It's definitely an acquired taste.Loading...
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This cold war noir mystery finds a twelve-year-old boy suspecting a Russian boarder in his home in his determination to learn the fate of his father, who went missing in action during World War II.Loading...
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Historical FictionGenesis Begins Again
by Alicia D. Williams
by Alicia D. Williams
Thirteen-Year-Old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her families troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
2020
Newbery Honor
Book
Newbery Honor
Book
Realistic Fiction
Self-Esteem
Prejudices
Family Problems
Skin Color
Moving
African Americans
A girl who receives repeated unwanted attention from the boys in her school begins doubting herself before rediscovering her voice in the mutually respected environment of a new karate class.
Realistic Fiction
Friendship
Schools
Family Life
Best Friends
Single-Parent Family
Sexual Harassment
Maybe He Just Likes You
by Barbara Dee
by Barbara Dee
The daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson describes her childhood against a backdrop of segregation and the civil rights movement. Revealing how her family raised funds in support of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and attended the famous march on Washington for jobs and freedom.
Biography
Robinson, Sharon 1950-
Robinson, Jackie 1919-1972
Coming of Age
20th Century
Civil Rights History
African American Girls
Child of a Dream A Memoir of 1963
by Sharon Robinson
by Sharon Robinson
The Line Tender
By Kate Allen
By Kate Allen
*Realistic Fiction
*Sharks
*Single-Parent Families
*Loss
*Grief
*Family Life
*Rockport, Massachusetts
*Sharks
*Single-Parent Families
*Loss
*Grief
*Family Life
*Rockport, Massachusetts
Following a tragedy that alters the course of her life, twelve-year-old Lucy Everhart decides to continue the shark research her marine biologist mother left unfinished when she died years earlier.
The Collector
by K. R Alexander
by K. R Alexander
Josie must discover the connection between a strange house in the woods, her grandmother's stories, and missing children, or risk losing her sister to dark magic.
Missing children
Horror Fiction
Sisters
Dolls