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A Negro League Scrapbook
Carole Boston Weatherford

A Negro League Scrapbook

Genre:
Nonfiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

This brief, often poetic, and informative introduction to the Negro Leagues uses period photographs to enhance the information. The period in American history is one of segregation and sadness but also of great joy and achievement.

Never Forgotten
Patricia and Fredrick McKissack

Never Forgotten

Genre:
Historical Fiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

Set in West Africa, this a lyrical story-in-verse is about a young black boy who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, and his father who is left behind to mourn the loss of his son. Here’s a beautiful, powerful, truly unforgettable story about family, memory, and freedom.

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

Genre:
Fantasy, Fiction, Science fiction / Dystopian
Age Level:
YA

Only special students are chosen to attend Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school tucked away in the English countryside. The chilling truth of their special nature slowly unfolds as we follow the stories of three former students.

Never Look Back
Lilliam Rivera

Never Look Back

Genre:
Fairy Tales, Folktales and Myths, Fantasy
Age Level:
Middle Grade, YA

Afro-Latinx teen Eury comes to the Bronx haunted by losing everything in Hurricane Maria—and by an evil spirit, Ato. Pheus, a golden-voiced, bachata-singing charmer, wants is to put a smile on Eury’s face and fight off her demons. But some dangers are too powerful for even the strongest love.

Matthue Roth

Never Mind the Goldbergs

Age Level:
YA
Seventeen-year-old New Yorker Hava Aaronson is an Orthodox Jew who lives an unorthodox lifestyle in the world of punk. She’s “discovered” and given the chance to go to Hollywood in order to play the part of an Orthodox Jew on a TV show about a modern American Orthodox Jewish family. The problem is she is the only Jewish person on the show which forces her to examine her beliefs more closely.
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Hana Volavkova

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

Genre:
Autobiography and Memoir, Nonfiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

This is a collection of drawings and poems that were done by children who grew up in the Terezin Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia between 1942 and 1944. The terror, the pleas for rescue, and the reflections of beliefs and values of these children who lived during World War II are vividly captured.

Silhouette of teenagers holding hands in a circle
David Hogg, Lauren Hogg

#NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws a Line

Genre:
Nonfiction
Age Level:
YA

n February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister, Lauren, went to school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, like any normal Wednesday. That day, of course, the world changed. By the next morning, with seventeen classmates and faculty dead, they had joined the leadership of a movement to save their own lives, and the lives of all other young people in America. It’s a leadership position they did not seek, and did not want—but events gave them no choice.

This book is a manifesto for the movement begun that day, one that has already changed America—with voices of a new generation that are speaking truth to power, and are determined to succeed where their elders have failed. With moral force and clarity, a new generation has made it clear that problems previously deemed unsolvable due to powerful lobbies and political cowardice will be theirs to solve. Born just after Columbine and raised amid seemingly endless war and routine active shooter drills, this generation now says, Enough. This book is their statement of purpose, and the story of their lives. It is the essential guide to the #NeverAgain movement.

Nevermore Book Cover
Jessica Townsend

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

Genre:
Fantasy
Age Level:
Middle Grade

Morrigan Crow is a cursed child. Born on eventide, the unluckiest birthday possible, she is constantly blamed for every large and small misfortune that befalls her corner of the Wintersea Republic. Oh, and did I mention that she’s doomed to die at midnight on her 11th birthday…! With her birthday upon her, Morrigan is resigned to her fate until she’s whisked away by the mysterious Jupiter North to Nevermoor—a magical city in the secret and heavily guarded Free State—and a chance to win a spot in the city’s most prestigious institution: the Wundrous Society. Four trials and hundreds of other children stand between Morrigan and the deadly Hunt of Smoke and Shadow awaiting her in the Wintersea Republic. Step boldly into this fresh new take on magic and magical schools that will leave readers begging for the next books! There are currently 3 books out in this series (Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow, and Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow) with a fourth book expect in the fall of 2022.