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The Thing About Luck

Cynthia Kadohata

Cultural IdentityMultigenerational FamilyMiddle GradeCharming
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Midsummer's Mayhem

Rajani LaRocca · 351 pages

Cultural IdentityMiddle GradeCharmingSelf-Discovery
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Listen, Slowly

Thanhha Lai · 274 pages

Cultural IdentitySelf-DiscoveryMiddle GradeMultigenerational Family
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The Great Wall of Lucy Wu

Wendy Wan-Long Shang

Eleven-year-old aspiring basketball star and interior designer Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that her great-aunt is coming to visit and Lucy will have to share a room with her for several months, shattering her plans for a perfect sixth-grade year.

Cultural IdentityMultigenerational FamilyMiddle GradeHeartwarming
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Judy Blume · 149 pages

Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong. But none of them can b

Self-DiscoveryMiddle GradeHeartwarmingCharming
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Amina's Voice

Hena Khan · 208 pages

"A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school after tragedy strikes her community"-- A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school. After her local mosque if vandalized, she is devastated. Her friend Soojin is talking about chan

Cultural IdentityMiddle GradeMultigenerational FamilyHeartwarming
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The List of Things That Will Not Change

Rebecca Stead · 240 pages

EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now."An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." --R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of WonderAt a time when everything is changing for Bea and her family, the important things will always stay the same. A soon-to-be classic by the Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach Me.After her parents' divorce, Bea's

Middle GradeSelf-DiscoveryHeartwarmingCharming
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Pigs in Heaven

Barbara Kingsolver · 363 pages

A phenomenal bestseller and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction, Pigs in Heaven continues the story of Taylor and Turtle, first introduced in The Bean Trees.

Cultural IdentityMultigenerational FamilyCharmingHeartwarming
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Rules

Cynthia Lord · 200 pages

Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach David the rules-from "a peach is not a funny-looking apple" to "keep your pants on in public"-in order to stop his embarrassing behaviors. But the summer Catherine meets Jason, a paraplegic boy, and Kris

Middle GradeHeartwarmingSelf-DiscoveryCharming
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Smile

Raina Telgemeier · 213 pages

Self-DiscoveryMiddle GradeHeartwarmingCharming
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Wonder

R.J. Palacio · 330 pages

## **Don't judge a boy by his face.** ## Auggie is a kid who just wants to be ordinary. He does ordinary things, like play on his Xbox and watch TV and eat. But ordinary kids don't make people stare just by walking down the block. They don't scare kids by looking at his face. They *definitely* haven't had over 20 surgeries by age 10. But when Auggie starts going to school for the first time in h

Self-DiscoveryMiddle GradeCharmingHeartwarming
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Eight Cousins

Louisa May Alcott · 216 pages

Rose, a shy orphan, blossoms in the company of her spirited relatives when she takes up residence at "The Aunt Hill." This captivating novel by the author of Little Women offers readers of all ages endearing, inspiring stories about growing up, making friends, and facing life with kindness and courage.

Multigenerational FamilySelf-DiscoveryCharmingMiddle Grade
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Flipped

Wendelin Van Draanen · 212 pages

The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. She says: "My Bryce. Still walking around with my first kiss." He says: "It's been six years of strategic avoidance and social discomfort." But in the eighth grade everything gets turned upside down. And just as he's thinking there's more to her than meets

Middle GradeHeartwarmingCharmingSelf-Discovery
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Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Beth Hoffman · 313 pages

When Camille Sugarbaker Honeycutt, the pretty but crazy 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen dies, her twelve-year-old daughter CeeCee has barely a hope in the world. To her rescue arrives Great Aunt Tootie in the most magnificent car CeeCee has ever seen, and she is whisked away to the city of Savannah. Among the sweet scent of magnolias and the loving warmth of Tootie and her colourful collection of friends

Self-DiscoveryCharmingHeartwarmingFirst Person Narrator
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Granny Torrelli Makes Soup

Sharon Creech · 141 pages

Bailey, who is usually so nice, Bailey, my neighbor, my friend, my buddy, my pal for my whole life, knowing me better than anybody, that Bailey, that Bailey I am so mad at right now, that Bailey, I hate him today.Twelve-year-old Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, don't always get along, that's true. But Granny Torrelli seems to know just how to make things right again with her interesting stories

Multigenerational FamilyCharmingMiddle GradeHeartwarming
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I, Emma Freke

Elizabeth Atkinson · 240 pages

Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.

Self-DiscoveryMultigenerational FamilyMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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Looking for Alibrandi

Melina Marchetta · 256 pages

During her senior year in a Catholic school in Sydney, Australia, seventeen-year-old Josie meets and must contend with the father she has never known.

Cultural IdentityMultigenerational FamilyHeartwarmingContemporary Fiction
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

Christopher Paul Curtis · 239 pages

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Middle GradeMultigenerational FamilyCultural IdentityHeartwarming
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All-of-a-Kind Family

Sydney Taylor · 189 pages

The life of a Jewish family with seven children growing up on New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century is the subject of this series. It includes All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family, and others.

Cultural IdentityCharmingMiddle GradeHeartwarming
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The Tequila Worm

Viola Canales · 199 pages

Sofia grows up in the close-knit community of the barrio in McAllen, Texas, then finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to family and her "comadres."

Cultural IdentityMultigenerational FamilyHeartwarmingMiddle Grade
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The Unexpected Everything

Morgan Matson · 528 pages

Andie has a plan. And she always sticks to her plan. Future? A top-tier medical school. Dad? Avoid him as much as possible (which isn t that hard considering he s a Congressman and he s never around). Friends? Palmer, Bri, and Toby pretty much the most awesome people on the planet, who needs anyone else? Relationships? No one s worth more than three weeks.

Self-DiscoveryCharmingHeartwarmingContemporary Fiction
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Apple and Rain

Sarah Crossan · 344 pages

Self-DiscoveryMiddle GradeMultigenerational FamilyContemporary Fiction
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Pat of Silver Bush

L.M. Montgomery · 329 pages

On Canada's Prince Edward Island in the 1920s, Pat loves her home at Silver Bush, but when changes come her friends Jingle and Bets and family servant Judy Plum help Pat to adjust.

Multigenerational FamilyCharmingHeartwarmingMiddle Grade
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The Whale Rider

Witi Ihimaera · 152 pages

As her beloved grandfather, chief of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, struggles to lead in difficult times and to find a male successor, young Kahu is developing a mysterious relationship with whales, particularly the ancient bull whale whose legendary rider was their ancestor.

Cultural IdentityMultigenerational FamilyHeartwarmingContemporary Fiction

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