This School Year's Diverse and Thoughtful Title Collection
By Bookshop.org
By Bookshop.org
From wrestling, to spies, to humanity, this list of titles from 2021 covers almost every subject you can imagine . . . and has fun with it!
Just Ash
Sol Santana
$18.99 $17.66Intersex teen Ash realizes that he needs to find a way to stand up for who he really is, or the cost of his silence might destroy his life, too.
Where I Belong
Marcia Argueta Mickelson
$18.99 $17.66An immigrant teen fights for her family, her future, and the place she calls home.
The Secret Life of Kitty Granger
G. D. Falksen
$18.99 $17.66When Kitty’s keen observation and quick thinking help her survive a dangerous encounter, two secret agents working for Her Majesty’s government offer her a job in their espionage operation.
From the Tops of the Trees
Kao Kalia Yang and Rachel Wada
$17.99 $16.73Kao Kalia Yang’s sensitive prose and Rachel Wada’s evocative illustrations bring to life this tender true story of the love between a father and a daughter at their refugee camp.
Hair Story
Nonieqa Ramos and Keisha Morris
$17.99 $16.73With rhythmic, rhyming verse and vibrant collage art, author NoNieqa Ramos and illustrator Keisha Morris follow two girls as they discover the stories hair can tell.
Rissy No Kissies
Katey Howes and Jess Engle
$17.99 $16.73Rissy’s friends and family wonder if she’s okay. But kisses make Rissy uncomfortable. Can one little lovebird show everyone that there’s no one right way to show you care?
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper
$17.99 $16.73This book traces the history of African Americans in Tulsa’s Greenwood district and chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community.
Eighth Grade vs. the Machines
Joshua S. Levy
$17.99 $16.73After the entire population of Earth’s solar system is whisked away by alien technology, Jack and his classmates and teachers aboard the PSS 118 are the only humans left.
My Ex-Imaginary Friend
Jimmy Matejek-Morris
$17.99Imaginary George—halfwalrus, halfhuman, all magic—has a problem of his own: with nobody to believe in him, he is slowly disappearing.
Jane Doe and the Key of All Souls
Jeremy Lachlan
$17.99Jane must find the courage to accept her destiny and face her darkest fears, while every soul in every world hangs in the balance.
Artie and the Wolf Moon
Olivia Stephens
$17.99 $16.73As Artie learns the history of werewolves and her own parents’ past, she’ll find that wolves aren’t the scariest thing in the woods—vampires are.
Brontë
Manuela Santoni
$14.99Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë—faced with an ailing father and an alcoholic brother—pursue independence through art in this graphic vision of the lives of three legendary writers.
Cell Phones and Smartphones: A Graphic History
Blake Hoena and Ceej Rowland
$8.99This graphic history also shows readers the big changes in design, size, and battery life that took place before mobile phones hit the center of popular culture.
Glorious Wrestling Alliance: Ultimate Championship Edition
Josh Hicks
$14.99Collected in colossal full color for the first time, Josh Hicks’s culthit comic covers identity, anxiety, and leg drops.
Super Potato and the Greenhouse of Evil: Book 7
Artur Laperla
$8.99Super Potato’s archenemy Doctor Malevolent has returned, and this time he has a plantbased plan to take over the world!
The Hunt Is on: Book 1
Nie Jun
$10.99Xinyue, his brother Qiliu, and their mother are seekers, hunting aweto—a rare, plantlike treasure—along the legendary Silk Road.
The Spy Who Raised Me
Ted Anderson and Gianna Meola
$14.99Some parents want their children to turn out just like them. Only a few secretly turn their kids into elite special operatives.
The Wolf in Underpants at Full Speed
Wilfrid Lupano, Mayana Itoïz, et al.
$8.99 $8.36It’s race day in the forest—but someone has ruined the posters for the big event!
Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z
Charles Waters, Irene Latham, et al.
$19.99 $18.59This inspiring resource for middlegrade readers is organized as a dictionary; each entry presents a word related to creating a better world, such as ally, empathy, or respect.
Ruth and the Green Book
Calvin Alexander Ramsey, Gwen Strauss, et al.
$18.99 $17.66Ruth’s story is fiction, but The Green Book and its role in helping a generation of African American travelers avoid some of the indignities of Jim Crow are historical fact.
Niko Draws a Feeling
Robert Raczka and Simone Shin
$17.99 $16.73This imaginative and tender story explores the creative process, abstract art, friendship, and the universal desire to feel understood.
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and R. Gregory Christie
$17.99 $16.73Lewis Michaux Sr. had an itch he needed to scratch—a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore.
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