JFIC Stand Alone Books


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Book cover for "Barakah Beats"
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5 stars
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"It's Nimra Sharif's first time going to public school. Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has her best friend, Jenna, by her side, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder aorund the other kids. Desperate to fit in and save her friendship with Jenna, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to...
Book cover for "Blood on the river"
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2.3 stars
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Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.
Book cover for "Bridge to Terabithia"
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4 stars
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Jess Aarons gains the strength to cope with unexpected tragedy by going to a secret kingdom in the woods invented by Leslie Burke, a newcomer to his rural Virginia community.
Book cover for "The girl in the locked room"
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4.8 stars
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Told in two voices, Jules, whose father is restoring an abandoned house, and a girl who lived there a century before begin to communicate and slowly, the girl's tragic story is revealed.
Book cover for "Louisa June and the Nazis in the waves"
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"[The author] captures life on the U.S. homefront during World War II, weaving a rich portrait of a family reeling from loss and the chilling yet hopeful voyage of fighting for what matters."--
Book cover for "Mama's chicken and dumplings"
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"Set in the 1930s in the African American community of Vinegar Hill in Charlottesville, Virginia, this book follows ten-year-old Allie, who devises a secret Man for Mama Plan to find her mama a husband"--

7. Mascot

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"Six eighth graders outside Washington, DC, navigate through conflict and division focused on their school district's Native American mascot"--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "Mockingbird (Mok'ing-bûrd)"
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4.8 stars
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Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
Book cover for "Onyx & beyond"
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Set against the turbulence of the Civil Rights Movement, twelve-year-old Onyx dreams of becoming an astronaut as he navigates his mother's early-onset dementia and avoids foster care.
Book cover for "Poison in the colony"
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4 stars
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After the colony of James Town is founded in 1607. After Captain John Smith establishes trade with the Native Americans. After Pocahontas befriends the colonists. After early settlers both thrive and die in this new world . . . a girl is born. Virginia.
Book cover for "The secret battle of Evan Pao"
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"Evan Pao and his family move to Haddington, Virginia in hopes of keeping his father's notoriety a secret, but a small southern town is not an easy place for a Chinese-American boy to fit in, and one kid, Bradady Griggs, seems determined to make things difficult"--Publisher's description.