TheAdventuresofaGirlCalledBicyclebyChristinaUss,307pages.FICTION.MargaretFergusonBooks(HolidayHouse),2018.$17.Language:G(0swears);MatureContent:PG;Violence:GBUYINGADVISORY:EL(K-3),EL,MS—ESSENTIAL. AUDIENCEAPPEAL:HIGHAll’sFaireinMiddleSchoolbyVictoriaJamieson,248pgs.GRAPHICNOVELDialBooksforYoungReaders,2017.$20.99Language:PG(2swears);MatureContent:PG;Violence:G
EL–OPTIONAL.MS–ESSENTIALAnsweringtheCryforFreedom:StoriesofAfricanAmericansandtheAmericanRevolutionbyGretchenWoelfle,illustratedbyR.GregoryChristie,196pages.NON-FICTION.CalkinsCreek(BoydsMill),2016.$19.BUYINGADVISORY:MS,HS–ESSENTIAL AUDIENCEAPPEAL:AVERAGEArloFinchintheValleyofFirebyJohnAugust,318pages.RoaringBrook(Macmillan),2018.$17.Language:G(1swear,0‘f’);MatureContent:G;Violence:PG(somedangerandfighting).EL,MS–ESSENTIAL**TheAstonishingColorofAfterbyEmilyX.R.Pan,472pages.LittleBrownandCompany,2018.$19Language:PG-13(6swears);MatureContent:PG-13;Violence:G.BUYINGADVISORY:HS-ESSENTIAL AUDIENCEAPPEAL:HIGHBlendedbySharonM.Draper,308pages.Atheneum(Simon),2018.$17.Content:PG(doesmentionanoose,ashooting).BUYINGADVISORY:EL,MS–ESSENTIAL AUDIENCEAPPEAL:HIGHBootsontheGround:America'sWarinVietnambyElizabethPartridge,201pages.Viking,2018.$23.NON-FICTION.Language:PG(14swears,0'F');MatureContent:PG-13(racialslurs,discussionofdrugsandsuicide);Violence:PG-13(Warviolence).MS-ADVISABLE,HS-ESSENTIAL**ChildrenofBloodandBonebyTomiAdeyemi,525pages.HenryHolt(Macmillan),2018.$19.Language:PG-13(40+swears,0‘f’);MatureContent:G;Violence:PG-13(severaldeathsandfighting).MS,HS–ESSENTIALDariusTheGreatIsNotOkaybyAdibKhorram,314pages.DialBooks(Penguin),2018.$18.Language:PG-13(4swears);MatureContent:PG;Violence(G)BUYINGADVISORY:HS-ESSENTIAL. AUDIENCEAPPEAL:HIGHTheDarkdeepbyAllyCondieandBrendanReichs,272pages.Bloomsbury,October2018.$17.Language:G;MatureContent:G;Violence:PGBUYINGADVISORY:EL,MS–ESSENTIAL AUDIENCEAPPEAL:HIGHDearAlly,HowDoYouWriteaBook?byAllyCarter,336pages.NONFICTION.ScholasticPress,March2019.$19Content:GBUYINGADVISORY:MS,HS-ESSENTIAL AUDIENCEAPPEAL:HIGH TheDrawingLesson:AGraphicNovelThatTeachesYouHowtoDrawbyMarkCrilley,167pages.GRAPHICNOVELWatson-Guptill,2016.$19.Language:G(0swears,0‘f’)MatureContent:GViolence:G
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That’sNotWhatHappenedbyKodyKeplinger,325pages.ScholasticPress(ScholasticInc.),2018.$18.99Language:R(68swears,0“f”);MatureContent:PG;Violence:PGBUYINGADVISORY:HS–OPTIONAL AUDIENCEAPPEAL:HIGH**TheyLostTheirHeads!byCarlynBeccia,165pages.BloomsburyPublishing,2018.$19.Language:G(0swears);MatureContent:PG;ViolencePG.MS,HS–ESSENTIAL**TheThriftyGuidetoAncientRome:AHandbookforTimeTravelersbyJonathanW.Stokes,illustratedbyDavidSossella127pages.NONFICTIONViking(Penguin)2018$14.MS-ESSENTIALTheTruthasToldbyMasonButtlebyLeslieConnor326pagesKathrineTegenBooks(HarperCollins),2018$17.00Language:G(0swears0'f');MatureContent:G;Violence:PG(Peril,bullying)BUYINGADVISORY:EL-ADVISABLE,MS-ESSENTIAL AUDIENCEAPPEAL:HIGHTheUnteachablesbyGordonKorman,288pages.Balzer+Bray(Harper),2019.$17.Language:G(0swears,0‘f’);MatureContent:G;Violence:G(somemildangermanagementproblems)BUYINGADVISORY:EL,MS–ESSENTIAL AUDIENCEAPPEAL:HIGHUntilTomorrow,Mr.MarsworthbySheilaO’Connor,348pages.G.P.Putnam’sSons,2018.$17.Laanguage:PG(1swear);MatureContent:G;Violence:PGEL,MS–ESSENTIALTheUnwanted:StoriesoftheSyrianRefugeesbyDonBrown,105pages.NON-FICTION,GRAPHICNOVELHoughtonMifflinHarcourt,2018.$18.1328810151Language:G(0Swears,0'f');MatureContent:GViolence:PGBUYINGADVISORY:MS,HS-ESSENTIAL AUDIENCEAPPEAL:HIGHWithoutRefugebyJaneMitchell,269pages.CarolrhodaBooks(Lerner),2018.$16.99.Language:GMatureContent:PGViolence:PGEL,MS–ESSENTIAL**YouAreMighty:AGuidetoChangingtheWorldbyCarolinePaul,illustratedbyLaurenTamaki,113pages.NON-FICTION.BloomsburyChildren’sBooks,2018.$18.Language:G(0swears);MatureContent:PG;Violence:GBUYINGADVISORY:EL,MS,HS-ESSENTIAL. AUDIENCEAPPEAL:AVERAGE
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