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Fairy-tale tropes are upended in Gauld’s charming tale of royal siblings who take turns rescuing each other. (Ages 4-8)
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A maid of Chinese ancestry in 1890 Atlanta has a surprising side hustle — as an advice columnist challenging the city’s prejudices. (Ages 12-17)
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Clara has been chosen for a game of chance — the Mexican card game Lotería — in this spellbinding story about fate versus free will. (Ages 8-12)
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In a searing but uplifting memoir, the author ofHatchettells of the harrowing childhood he overcame. (Ages 8-12)
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What was life like behind the Iron Curtain? Yelchin wittily recounts his hardscrabble upbringing in Cold War Russia. (Ages 10-15)
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Now you see ‘em, now you don’t: Translucent overlay pages let readers join a little girl in a spooky (but not too scary) game of hide-and-seek inside the Victorian mansion she calls home. (Ages 4-8)
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A powerful novel-in-verse about how tragedy transforms the lives of Moth, an orphaned ballerina grieving the loss of her family, and Sani, a depressed Navajo boy in search of his roots. (Ages 12-17)
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A newborn fawn awakens to a dangerous world in this sumptuously illustrated picture book set in the Sonoran Desert. (Ages 4-8)
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This “lost dog” story explains the concept of paying it forward wordlessly, as one kindness leads to another until finally: a joyous reunion between girl and pup. (Ages 5-8)
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The lives of the privileged and the exploited intertwine in Williams-Garcia’s masterpiece of historical fiction set in antebellum Louisiana. (YA)
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