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The Arrival
by Shaun Tan
Staff Pick
Shaun Tan, one of my favorite children's book illustrators, draws upon hundreds of years worth of immigrant stories to tell this single but universal tale: one of alienation, magic, and bravely bearing the wonderful and frightening strangeness of a new... (read more)

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I Am the Messenger
by Markus Zusak
Staff Pick
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Staff Pick
A fellow teen's suicide is certain to rock a school...but imagine the destruction that follows when the dead girl's classmates discover her tape recordings are being delivered one by one to each person she felt had a hand in her decision. If you're... (read more)

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The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus #01)
by Rick Riordan
Staff Pick
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For the first time in this wickedly popular series, Greg Heffley keeps his diary — ahem, make that "journal" — during summer vacation when he gets to be around his beloved family all the time! Aaagh! This hilarious comic/novel combo is the go-to pick... (read more)

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by Maggie Stiefvater
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Hansel and Gretel
by Cynthia Rylant and Jen Corace
Staff Pick
Cynthia Rylant's adaptation is characteristically and wonderfully simple; Jen Corace's illustrations are the appropriate mix of old-fashioned, sweet, and creepy. (Nobody has pupils! It's freaky!) Hansel and Gretel is a classic Grimm (and grim) fairy tale... (read more)

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by Ntozake Shange
Staff Pick
This book gives me goosebumps. It's a biography of Coretta Scott King, strikingly illustrated by Kadir Nelson, with resonant poetic text by Ntozake Shange. More importantly, it's a great introduction to the non-violent movement in the struggle for civil... (read more)

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The pictures in Life-Size Zoo show what zoo animals would look like if they were standing right in front of you! What is smaller than expected? Or bigger? Notes on the side help you notice things in the picture that you may not have been looking for, and... (read more)

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Before I Fall
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I hardly ever find young-adult books whose main character is a maddeningly popular girl — the girl with the hot jock boyfriend and the fiercely close but catty top-tier friends — and yet, here one is. Before I Fall is a fantastically authentic... (read more)

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Chicken Butt!
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Staff Pick
Once I started this book, I couldn't stop reading. Not only is this young adult book funny and touching — it feels so real. Anyone of any age who has struggled to know themselves and has fought for happiness will find resonance in the words and... (read more)

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