The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney. Puffin Books, 2004, 125 Pages.

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Last Day On Mars by Kevin Emerson. Walden Pond Press, 2017, 325 pages.

The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, The Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel, by Deborah Hopkinson. Alfred A. Knopf, 2013, 249 pages.

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. Puffin, 2015, 318 pages.

Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo. Candlewick Press, 2016, 272 pages.

Wishtree by Katherine Applegate. Feiwel & Friends, 2017, 224 pages

Countdown by Deborah Wiles. Scholastic, 2010, 350 Pages.

Pax by Sara Pennypacker. Balzer + Bray, 2016, 276 pages

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill. Algonquin Young Readers, 2016. 400 pages

Sticks & Stones by Abby Cooper. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016, 288 pages.

Ghosts by Raina Telegemeier. Graphix, 2016, 256 Pages.

The same but different from Raina-
 Sisters, family issues, moving, fitting in, friends and boys...All preteen and developmentally appropriate issues.

But, with a Día de los Muertos twist- set in a community modeled after her own northern california hometown, Telegemeier tackles the pleasantly familiar - as well as the serious (death). We love Raina and if she wrote it, we will buy it.

When the Moon Meets the Mountain by Grace Lin. Little, Brown and Company, 2009, 277 pages.

Strong girl character, dragons and chinese folktales and storytelling at its best. Bookclub.

Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson. Dial Books, 2015. 240 Pages

Recommended by several young patrons-- always a good sign. What's your Roller Derby Name?

Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova. Yen Press. 2015, 224 pages

Excellent graphic in the vein of Sisters, Smile, El Deafo, etc. Unsure if it is an actual memoir or just reads like one.
big, big hit.

Rules by Cynthia Lord. Scholastic, 2006. 200 pages

Saw Cynthia Lord at MLA once, years ago. Loved her and resolved to read RULES. She has a daughter who is sister to a sibling with autism. A great and quick read, I have been recommending it- and telling Lord's story-- for years. only just read it now. Wow! and it was the first of a whole slew of excellent books with main characters having disabilties, Rules was the first.

Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate. Feiwell & Friends, 256 pages.

4th, 5th grade. sad. magical realism. Bookclub.

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword Of Summer by Rick Riordan, Disney Hyperion, 2015. 491 Pages

Zita the Space Girl by Ben Hatke. First Second, 2011.

Great Graphic for girls, strong girl character and a traditional hero tale. great info at the back too.

Flora & Ulyssess: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo. Candlewick Press, 2013, 231 pages

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Harper Collins, 2008, 3007 Pages.

Bod, (Nobody) Owens's entire family is killed when he is a baby. But while the killer searches in vain to complete the job, Baby Nobody wanders into a graveyard where the folk who live there raise him as their own. There is lots for a living boy raised in a graveyard to learn. I listened to the audio book-- one of the very best-- read by Gaiman himself. The story told as the author intended. FABULOUS on every level.