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  • Amari and the Despicable Wonders

    by B. B. Alston ...
    Series Book 3 - Supernatural Investigations
    The highly anticipated third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Supernatural Investigations series that began with Amari and the Night Brothers!Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and Nevermoor.War has come to the supernatural world, and Amari’s two worst enemies are leading the charge.Elaine Harlowe has manipulated her way into bec ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ways to Share Joy

    by Ms Renée Watson ...
    Illustrated by Nina Mata ...
    Series series A Ryan Hart Story
    Share your joy wherever you go! Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson continues her charming young middle grade series starring Ryan Hart, a girl who is pure spirit and sunshine.Ryan Hart is caught in the middle. She has an older brother and a new baby sister, and she's in a friendship tug-of-war with two friends who both want to be her best best friend. How can ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Woke

    A Young Poet's Call to Justice

    by Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo, Olivia Gatwood, Jason Reynolds ...
    Illustrated by Theodore Taylor III ...
    **"This collection of poems by women of color covers topics relating to social justice, activism, discrimination and empathy, focusing on the need to speak out and inspiring middle-graders." -VogueWoke: A Young Poet's Guide to Justice is a collection of poems to inspire kids to stay woke and become a new generation of activists.**Historically poets have been on the forefront of social movements. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Amari and the Night Brothers

    by B. B. Alston ...
    Series Book 1 - Supernatural Investigations
    New York Times bestseller!Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this exhilarating debut middle grade fantasy, the first in a series filled with #blackgirlmagic. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and Nevermoor.Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • Amari and the Great Game

    by B. B. Alston ...
    Series Book 2 - Supernatural Investigations
    Sequel to the New York Times bestseller Amari and the Night Brothers!Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this magical second book in the New York Times and Indie bestselling Supernatural Investigations trilogy—perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and Nevermoor.After finding her brother and saving the entire supernatural world, Am... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting (Volume 1)

    by Roseanne A. Brown ...
    Series series Fiction - Middle Grade
    Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling YA author Roseanne A. Brown's middle grade debut about a pre-teen vampire slayer with a strong helping of Ghanaian folklore. For most kids, catching fireflies is a fun summer activity. For twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng, it's a matter of life and death. That's because Serwa knows that some fireflies are really adze, shapeshifting vampires from ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Dork Diaries 3

    Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star

    by Rachel Renée Russell ...
    Illustrated by Rachel Renée Russell ...
    Series series Dork Diaries
    Nikki Maxwell enters a talent competition in this third installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!Nikki Maxwell has been doing everything she can to keep everyone at school from learning the truth—that she’s there on scholarship in exchange for her Dad working as the school’s exterminator. When a major talent competition is announced with a school scholarship offered as ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Dork Diaries Set

    Dork Diaries Books 1, 2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, and 5

    by Rachel Renée Russell ...
    Illustrated by Rachel Renée Russell ...
    Series series Dork Diaries
    Don’t miss this dorkalicious boxed set of the first six Dork Diaries books that comes with a special collectible poster!Dork Diaries are funnier in numbers, which is why this complete collection of Nikki Maxwell’s entertaining adventures is a must-have for Dorks everywhere. This boxed set includes all five standalone Dork Diary titles—Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life, Tales from a Not-So-Popular ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Out of My Heart

    by Sharon M. Draper ...
    Series series The Out of My Mind Series
    A New York Times bestseller!Melody faces her fears to follow her passion in this stunning sequel to the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling middle grade novel Out of My Mind.Melody, the huge-hearted heroine of Out of My Mind, is a year older, and a year braver. And now with her Medi-talker, she feels nothing’s out of her reach, not even summer camp. There have to be camps for differently-abled . ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dork Diaries 1

    Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life

    by Rachel Renée Russell ...
    Illustrated by Rachel Renée Russell ...
    Series series Dork Diaries
    Nikki Maxwell is starting eighth grade at a new school—and her very first diary is packed with hilarious stories and art in this SUPER SQUEE updated edition of the first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!Nikki confesses all in her first diary ever: her epic battle with her mom for an iPhone, meeting her new soon-to-be BFFs Chloe and Zoey, falling for adorably sweet ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Terry's Crew

    by Terry Crews, Cory Thomas ...
    Series Book 1 - Terry's Crew
    Actor/author/athlete Terry Crews digs into his childhood in Flint, Michigan, to tell a story of fitting in and finding your place in his sh****owstopping debut middle-grade graphic novel, the start of a series.“Terry's Crew is a true delight from beginning to end. It's sure to provide a much-needed mirror and sliding glass door for countless kids.” —Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give“A ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Every Leaf a Hallelujah

    by Ben Okri ...
    **The Guardian: Best Children's and YA Book of the YearAn environmental fairytale that speaks eloquently to the most pressing issues of our times, from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Famished Road.**Mangoshi lives with her mom and dad in a village near the forest. When her mom becomes ill, Mangoshi knows only one thing can help her—a special flower that grows deep in the forest.The little ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Aesop's Fables: A Magic Beans Story

    by Malorie Blackman ...
    A singing ant, a silly wolf and a mighty mouse are just some of the characters in this mini collection of everyone's favourite fables. After all, it's never too late to learn a new moral or two!This story is a magic bean. It may not look much like a bean, but I can promise you that it is. For if you plant it in a young mind, it will grow into a love of story and reading. These beans are favourite ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • You Can Fly

    The Tuskegee Airmen

    by Carole Boston Weatherford ...
    Illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford ...
    In this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford “wields the power of poetry to tell [the] gripping historical story” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) of the Tuskegee Airmen.I WANT YOU! says the poster of Uncle Sam. But if you’re a young black man in 1940, he doesn’t want you in the cockpit of a war plane. Yet ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Hair Love

    by Matthew A. Cherry ...
    Illustrated by Vashti Harrison ...
    **A New York Times Bestseller and tie-in to Academy-Award Winning Short Film "Hair Love""I love that Hair Love is highlighting the relationship between a Black father and daughter. Matthew leads the ranks of new creatives who are telling unique stories of the Black experience. We need this."- Jordan Peele, Actor & FilmmakerIt's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Brown Girl Dreaming

    by Jacqueline Woodson ...
    A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award WinnerJacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Red at the Bone*, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.*Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dork Diaries 3 1/2

    How to Dork Your Diary

    by Rachel Renée Russell ...
    Illustrated by Rachel Renée Russell ...
    Series series Dork Diaries
    Create your own Dork Diary with this special, interactive addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!Nikki Maxwell can’t believe it when one morning she can’t find her diary! The hunt is on, and while she looks, Nikki can’t help putting together a list of important diary-keeping lessons to remember in case of missing diary emergencies like this one.How to Dork Your Diary is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • March Book 1

    by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin ...
    Illustrated by Nate Powell ...
    Series Book 1 - March
    Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecroppers farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ghost Boys

    by Jewell Parker Rhodes ...
    A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes.Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better.Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • A Good Kind of Trouble

    by Lisa Moore Ramée ...
    From debut author Lisa Moore Ramée comes this funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel about friendship, family, and standing up for what’s right, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give and the novels of Renée Watson and Jason Reynolds.**Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she’d also like to make it through seventh ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ghost

    by Jason Reynolds ...
    Series series Track
    A National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s LiteratureNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadGhost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of the acclaimed Trackseries from Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award–winning author Jason Reynolds.Ghost. Lu. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Volume 1)

    by Kwame Mbalia ...
    Series series Tristan Strong Novel, A
    Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia's epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods.Seventh grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • New Kid

    A Newbery Award Winner

    by Jerry Craft ...
    Illustrated by Jerry Craft ...
    Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature!Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft.Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Hidden Figures

    by Margot Lee Shetterly ...
    Illustrated by Laura Freeman ...
    Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award–nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to picture book readers!Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math…really ... Read more

    $14.99 USD