Va Readers 2021-2022

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2021-2022 Virginia Readers' Choice

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Other Words From Home
by Jasmine Warga

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.

Novel in Verse

Realistic Fiction

Teenage Girls

Syria--immigration and emigration--Fiction

Cincinnati Ohio

School Stories

Spy Runner
by Eugene Yelchin

I wonder if they know what a noir mystery is....

Secrets

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.

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.

Mystery

Family Secrets

Cold War

Middle School Students

Historical Fiction

Genesis Begins Again
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

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

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