Reading Olympics 25-26

Across the desert

Bowling, Dusti,


School Library Journal starred, October 2021. Booklist starred, December 2021. Library Media Connection, August 2021. Publishers Weekly Annex, September 2021. While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.
Date Published:2021

Brother's keeper

Lee, Julie, (Children's fiction writer),


School Library Journal starred, June 2020. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2021. Booklist starred, May 2020. Pub Weekly, June 2020. Kirkus Starred, April 2020. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), July 2020. Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's family, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
Date Published:2022

School Library Journal starred, June 2020. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2021. Booklist starred, May 2020. Pub Weekly, June 2020. Kirkus Starred, April 2020. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), July 2020. Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's family, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.

Date Published:2022

The campaign

Sales, Leila,


School Library Journal, July 2020. "Twelve-year-old Maddie runs her babysitter Janet's campaign to become mayor of their city and protect arts funding"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2020

Countdown : 2979 days to the Moon /

Slade, Suzanne,


School Library Journal starred, October 2018. Booklist starred, September 2018. Pub Weekly, July 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2018. Kirkus Review, July 2018. Library Media Connection, November 2018. "Free verse and . . . illustrations tell the true story of the American effort to land the first man on the Moon"--Amazon.
Date Published:2022

My brigadista year

Paterson, Katherine,


School Library Journal, October 2017. Publishers Weekly, August 2017. Booklist, October 2017. Horn Book, April 2018. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), November 2017. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2017. Kirkus Review, September 2017. Library Media Connection, January 2018. "[Thirteen-year-old Lora] a young Cuban teenager ... volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read"--Amazon.
Date Published:2019

School Library Journal, October 2017. Publishers Weekly, August 2017. Booklist, October 2017. Horn Book, April 2018. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), November 2017. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2017. Kirkus Review, September 2017. Library Media Connection, January 2018. "[Thirteen-year-old Lora] a young Cuban teenager ... volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read"--Amazon.

Date Published:2019

A night divided

Nielsen, Jennifer A.,


When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz were trapped on the eastern side, while her father, and her other brother Dominic were in the West, and now four years later, Gerta sees her father and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom. When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz were trapped on the eastern side, while her father, and her other brother Dominic were in the West, and now four years later, Gerta sees her father and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom.
Date Published:2018

When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz were trapped on the eastern side, while her father, and her other brother Dominic were in the West, and now four years later, Gerta sees her father and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom. When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz were trapped on the eastern side, while her father, and her other brother Dominic were in the West, and now four years later, Gerta sees her father and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom.

Date Published:2018

Omar rising

Saeed, Aisha,


School Library Journal starred, January 2022. Kirkus Starred, December 2021. Booklist, February 2022. Horn Book, January 2022. Library Media Connection, May 2022. "Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2023

Out of my mind

Draper, Sharon M., (Sharon Mills)


Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
Date Published:2010