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Ruta Sepetys
Lina is
just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she
draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge
into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known.
Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her
mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic
Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced,
under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the
cruelest of conditions.
and Jason Reynolds
Matt wears a black suit every day. No,
not because his mom died--although she did, and it sucks. But he wears the suit
for his gig at the local funeral home, which pays way better than the Cluck
Bucket, and he needs the income since his dad can't handle the bills (or
anything, really) on his own. A 2016 Coretta
Scott King Author Honor book.
A 2016
Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers
Award for Outstanding Children's Literature.Two teens--one black, one
white--grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their
school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by
racial tension. A bag of chips. That's all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking
for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul
Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad's pleadings
that he's stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad's resistance to
leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashad's every flinch at every
punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as
ordered.
