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Greetings from Nowhere (Frances Foster Books)

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Counting by 7s

Holly Goldberg Sloan · 380 pages

Middle GradeHeartwarmingFound FamilyAdoption
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The Reading List

Sara Nisha Adams · 368 pages

HeartwarmingBelongingFound FamilyElderly Protagonist
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Kelly Barnhill · 388 pages

An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingElderly ProtagonistFound Family
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Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo · 182 pages

Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her becauThe summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket—and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tel

Middle GradeHeartwarmingBelongingFound Family
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Schooled

Gordon Korman · 208 pages

Thirteen year old Anderson has never watched t.v., or never had pizza or even heard of a wedgie. The only thing he has ever done is been home schooled by his hippie grand mother, Rain. When she broke her hip after she fell out of a tree picking plums, he is forced to stay in a foster home. Will this be his only chance to try to stop from going to a real school? Or will his bananas go rotton?

Middle GradeHeartwarmingBelongingFound Family
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

Dusti Bowling · 288 pages

New friends and a mystery help Aden, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingBelongingFound Family
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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

Middle GradeHeartwarmingFound FamilyGrief and Mourning
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Plainsong

Kent Haruf · 301 pages

HeartwarmingBelongingFound FamilyElderly Protagonist
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Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery · 308 pages

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingGrief and MourningBelonging
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Ruby Holler

Sharon Creech · 310 pages

From the winner of the Newbery Award for Walk Two Moons comes a novel for young people about finding love -- and a home -- in the most unexpected of places. Filled with humor, poignancy, cookies, and treasure maps, Ruby Holler is about a special place where it's never too late to be loved.Dallas and Florida have been dubbed the "trouble twins." They have been shuffled between foster families and o

Middle GradeHeartwarmingFound FamilyElderly Protagonist
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Sarah, Plain and Tall

Patricia MacLachlan · 64 pages

This Newbery Medal winning book and children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love. The 30th Anniversary edition includes author Patricia MacLachlan s Newbery speech, discussion guide a

Middle GradeHeartwarmingBelongingWidowed Protagonist
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Every Soul a Star

Wendy Mass · 322 pages

And as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, I realize that I never saw real beauty until now.At Moon Shadow, an isolated campground, thousands have gathered to catch a glimpse of a rare and extraordinary total eclipse of the sun. It's also were three lives are about to be changed forever:Ally likes the simple things in life--labyrinths, star-gazing, and c

Middle GradeHeartwarmingBelongingCharacter-Driven
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Other Birds

Sarah Addison Allen · 320 pages

Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways. Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits-a stunning old cobblestone building shaped like a horseshoe, and named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside its human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy. When Zoey comes to claim her deceased mother

HeartwarmingBelongingFound FamilyCharacter-Driven
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The Pinballs

Betsy Byars · 137 pages

Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingBelongingFound Family
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The Wild Robot

Peter Brown · 287 pages

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a fierce storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabita

Middle GradeHeartwarmingAdoptionBelonging
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Summer of the Gypsy Moths

Sara Pennypacker · 288 pages

A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingFound FamilyElderly Protagonist
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Hello, Universe

Erin Entrada Kelly · 320 pages

Middle GradeHeartwarmingBelongingContemporary Fiction
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All of the Above

Shelley Pearsall · 234 pages

Based on a true story, All of the Above is the delightful and suspenseful story of four inner city students and their quest to build the world's largest tetrahedron. Weaving together the different personal stories of the kids, their teacher, and the community that surrounds them, award-winning author Shelley Pearsall has written a vividly engaging story about the math, life and good-tasting barbec

Middle GradeHeartwarmingBelongingMultiple POV
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All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook

Leslie Connor · 398 pages

Middle GradeHeartwarmingBelongingCharacter-Driven
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Keeping Safe the Stars

Sheila O'Connor

In rural Minnesota in 1974, thirteen-year-old Pride Star, raised to be independent, must accept help from friends and neighbors to care for eleven-year-old Nightingale and six-year-old Baby when her grandfather is hospitalized with a brain infection.

Middle GradeHeartwarmingFound FamilyCharacter-Driven
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The Reading List

Adams Sara Nisha

HeartwarmingBelongingElderly ProtagonistWidowed Protagonist
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Nowhere Boy

Katherine Marsh · 366 pages

Middle GradeHeartwarmingBelongingCharacter-Driven
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How to Read a Book

Monica Wood · 280 pages

HeartwarmingFound FamilyElderly ProtagonistWidowed Protagonist
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Chicken Boy

Frances O'Roark Dowell · 216 pages

Middle GradeHeartwarmingBelongingContemporary Fiction

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