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Picture Books

Brosgol, Vera. Memory Jars. Roaring Brook.

Charles, Tami. Zuri Ray Tries Ballet. illus. by Sharon Sordo. HarperCollins/Quill Tree.

Czekaj, Jef. Little Ghoul Goes to School. ­HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray.

Diaz, Lucky. Paletero Man. illus. by Micah Player. HarperCollins/Harper.

Fontaine, Valérie. The Big Bad Wolf in My House. tr. from French by Shelley Tanaka. illus. by Nathalie Dion. Groundwood.

Gigot, Jami. Starboy: Inspired by the Life and Lyrics of David Bowie. Holt.

Karlins, Mark. Kiyoshi’s Walk. illus. by Nicole Wong. Lee & Low.

Lee, Huy Voun. Like a Dandelion. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray.

Pearson, Tracey Campbell. Girls and Boys Come Out To Play. Holiday House/Margaret Ferguson.

Perkins, Lynne Rae. The Museum of Everything. HarperCollins/Greenwillow.

Pyle, Nathan W. Strange Planet: The Sneaking, Hiding, Vibrating Creature. HarperCollins/Harper.

Soontornvat, Christina. The Ramble Shamble Children. illus. by Lauren Castillo. Penguin/Nancy Paulsen.

Tatum, Channing. The One and Only Sparkella. illus. by Kim Barnes. Feiwel & Friends.

Wade, Stef. Q and U Call It Quits. illus. by Jorge Martin. HarperCollins/Quill Tree.

Zhu, Ben. Dessert Island. Roaring Brook.

Chapter Books

Quigley, Dawn. Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend. illus. by Tara Audibert. Heartdrum.

Middle Grade

Hagger-Holt, Sarah. Nothing Ever Happens Here. Yellow Jacket.

Hamza, Nina. Ahmed Aziz’s Epic Year. HarperCollins/Quill Tree.

Melleby, Nicole. How To Become a Planet. Algonquin.

Oh, Ellen. Finding Junie Kim. HarperCollins/Harper.

Youngblood, Leslie C. Forever This Summer. Little, Brown.

YA

Abtahi, Olivia. Perfectly Parvin. Putnam.

Choi, Mary H.K. Yolk. S. & S.

Garrett, Camryn. Off the Record. Knopf.

King, A.S. Switch. Dutton.

Lee, Emery. Meet Cute Diary. HarperCollins/Quill Tree.

Lee, Stacey. Luck of the Titanic. Putnam.

McLemore Anna-Marie. The Mirror Season. Feiwel & Friends.

North, Phoebe. Strange Creatures. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray.

Williams-Garcia, Rita. A Sitting in St. James. HarperCollins/Quill Tree.

Graphic Novels

Durand, Élodie. Parenthesis. tr. from French by Edward Gauvin. Top Shelf Comics.

McGrane, Madeline. The Accursed Vampire. HarperCollins/Quill Tree.

Mercado, Yehudi. Chunky. HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen.

Nonfiction

Barone, Rebecca E.F. Race to the Bottom of the Earth: Surviving Antarctica. Holt.

Burleigh, Robert. Breaking Waves: Winslow Homer Paints the Sea. illus. by Wendell Minor. Holiday House/Neal Porter.

Burleigh, Robert. Wilbur Wright Meets Lady Liberty. illus. by Wendell Minor. Holt/Christy Ottaviano.

Esperón, María García. The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas. tr. from Spanish by David Bowles. illus. by Amanda Mijangos. Levine Querido.

Riley, Scott. The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field. illus. by Nguyen Quang & Kim Lien. Millbrook.

Yoo, Paula. From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement. Norton.