Planet Earth is Blue by Nicole Panteleakos
Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger–it’s the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on […]
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
Description: Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without […]
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
This Newberry Award winning chapterbook is told through the eyes of Ivan, asilver back gorilla who has been livingin captivity for 27 years. The bookbegins with Ivan living at the […]
Just Kidding by Trudy Ludwig
DJ’s friend, Vince, has ahabit of teasing people andthen saying, “Just kidding!”as if that makes everythingokay. DJ feels that Vince’sjokes aren’t funny and have asharp edge that can “cut youto […]
Wonder
by R.J. PalacioGrade 3-7 Description August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at […]
When Stars Are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson and Omar MohamedGrade 3-7 Description Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard […]
The War That Saved My Life
by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyGrade 4-7 Description Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her […]
This Kid Can Fly: It’s about Ability (Not Disability)
by Aaron PhillipGrade 3-7 Description In this heartbreaking and ultimately uplifting memoir, Aaron (pronounced A-ron) Philip, a fourteen-year-old with cerebral palsy, shows how she isn’t defined as much by her […]
Song for a Whale
by Lynne KellyGrade 3-7 Description In the spirit of modern-day classics like Fish in a Tree and Counting by 7s comes the Schneider Family Book Award-winning story of a deaf girl’s connection to a […]
Silent Days, Silent Dreams
by Allen SayGrade 3-7 Description James Castle was born two months premature on September 25, 1899, on a farm in Garden Valley, Idaho. He was deaf, mute, autistic, and probably […]
