2025-2026 Reading Olympics

Brother's keeper

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


School Library Journal starred, June 2020. 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 mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
Date Published:2020

School Library Journal starred, June 2020. 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 mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.

Date Published:2020

Farther than the moon

Lackey, Lindsay,


"Roaring Brook Press." Publishers Weekly, July 2023. Kirkus Review, August 2023. Thirteen-year-old Houston and his younger brother Robbie dream of becoming astronauts, but when Houston is accepted to the Junior Astronaut Recruitment Program he realizes that Robbie's dream may not be achievable due to his cerebral palsy, so he makes a new plan that shoots for the stars.
Date Published:2024

My brigadista year

Paterson, Katherine,


School Library Journal, October 2017. Publisher's Weekly, August 2017. Booklist, October 2017. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2017. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2017. Kirkus Review, September 2017. "[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:2017

School Library Journal, October 2017. Publisher's Weekly, August 2017. Booklist, October 2017. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2017. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2017. Kirkus Review, September 2017. "[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:2017

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

Out of my mind

Draper, Sharon M., (Sharon Mills)


Wilson's Children, October 2010. Wilson's Junior High School, October 2010. School Library Journal starred, March 2010. Booklist starred, January 2010. Publishers Weekly, February 2010. Kirkus Starred, February 2010. Horn Book, October 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), March 2010. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2010. "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"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2019

Wilson's Children, October 2010. Wilson's Junior High School, October 2010. School Library Journal starred, March 2010. Booklist starred, January 2010. Publishers Weekly, February 2010. Kirkus Starred, February 2010. Horn Book, October 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), March 2010. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2010. "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"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2019

Playing through the turnaround

Larsen, Mylisa,


"Ages 8-12"--Back cover. Kirkus Starred, August 2022. Booklist, October 2022. Horn Book, September 2022. Publishers Weekly Annex, October 2022. When their beloved Jazz Lab teacher is let go due to budget cuts, his students hatch a plan to save their class, becoming an unlikely band of crusaders whose quest turns into something bigger than they ever could have imagined.
Date Published:2024

Roses and radicals : the epic story of how American women won the right to vote /

Zimet, Susan,


Booklist starred, February 2018. Library Media Connection starred, March 2018. Publishers Weekly, November 2017. New York Times, March 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2017. Kirkus Review, December 2017. "A history of the women's movement and the fight to ratify the 19th Amendment-giving women the right to vote in 1920"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2020