Showing 1–10 of 10 titles

• Audience: Older
• Genre: General Fiction
• Genre: Fiction
• Award year: 2020

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  Genesis Begins Again

  By Alicia D. Williams

  Painfully self-conscious about her dark skin, 13-year-old Genesis faces new challenges when her family moves to suburban Detroit and she starts a new school.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 2020 (Honor Title), Notable Children's Books 2020
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9781481465809
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  I Can Make This Promise

  By Christine Day

  Twelve-year-old Edie discovers a box in her family's attic that reveals her mother's Suquamish/Duwamish heritage.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Notable Children's Books 2020
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780062871992
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  Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

  By Jason Reynolds

  What happens after school? These 10 interconnected stories will tell you, block by block.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Notable Children's Books 2020
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9781481438285
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  Maybe He Just Likes You

  By Barbara Dee

  Mila, a seventh-grader, experiences sexual harassment and unwanted attention from a group of classmates.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Notable Children's Books 2020
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9781534432376
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  The Other Half of Happy

  By Rebecca Balcárcel

  As Quijana enters seventh grade, she feels in between, grappling with a new school, new friends, and her half-Guatemalan heritage. She struggles to find her place within her friendships and family, stumbling and succeeding on her path to discovering her authentic self.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Notable Children's Books 2020, Pura Belpré Children's Author Award 2020 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9781452169989
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  Other Words for Home

  By Jasmine Warga

  Themes of conflict, home, identity, the arts, and prejudice are interwoven in this powerful verse novel about a Syrian girl's new life in America.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • John Newbery Medal 2020 (Honor Title), Notable Children's Books 2020
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780062747808
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  A Story about Cancer (with a Happy Ending)

  By India Desjardins, Marianne Ferrer (Illustrator)

  In this illustrated book for older children, a teenage girl waits for test results and reflects on her five-year battle with leukemia.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Notable Children's Books 2020
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9781786039774
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  Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers

  By Celia C. Pérez

  Four wildly different middle-school girls join together in social activism to protest an outdated tradition.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Notable Children's Books 2020
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780425290439
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  Where the Heart Is

  By Jo Knowles

  Rachel negotiates a summer of changing friendships, family financial disaster, a new job, and a growing awareness of her sexual identity.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Notable Children's Books 2020
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9781536200034
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  The Year We Fell from Space

  By Amy Sarig King

  As Liberty's family struggles with divorce and mental illness, her life begins to spin out of control.

  • Fiction, General Fiction
  • Notable Children's Books 2020
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9781338236361