Made the Grade – December 2017

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Desperate Road to Freedom, A: The Underground Railroad Diary of Julia May Jackson
Julia May and her family escape from servitude to a heartless slave owner i…
Beartown
Beartown – a small, isolated Swedish town – is obsessed with hockey and as …
Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
This collection of essays by YouTube personality Hannah Hart explores issue…
Flying Lessons & Other Stories
This collection of short stories, written by different authors, has family …
Ghost
Seventh grade student Ghost learned at a young age how to run when he and h…
Hag-Seed
Margaret Atwood’s retelling of The Tempest, follows Felix, a disgraced thea…
I Am Not a Number
This powerful and engaging picture book shares the true experiences of Iren…
I Wish You More
This picture book presents a variety of wishes that parents may have for th…
I Wonder
As Eva and her mother go for a moonlit walk, they observe the world and pon…
If I Was Your Girl
Amanda, born as a boy, faces bullying, betrayal, and violence because she i…
Orbiting Jupiter
Thirteen-year-old Joseph meets, falls in love with, and impregnates his tee…
P’ésk’a and the First Salmon Ceremony
This engaging picture book portrays the traditional first salmon ceremony o…
Rosie Revere, Engineer
Second-grader Rosie dreams of being an engineer, and is always designing an…
Speaking My Truth: Reflections on Reconciliation & Residential School
This collection of essays depicts the impact of Residential Schools on indi…
Still Life with Tornado
Sixteen-year-old Sarah has lived in a household where domestic violence was…
Suite Française
Suite Française was written during the German occupation of France during W…
Future of Us, The
This coming-of-age novel set in 1996 follows the journey of best friends an…
Scar Boys, The
Harry was badly scarred at eight when boys tied him to a tree that burned i…
Sympathizer, The
This award-winning historical novel, set during and in the years following …
Wonderful Things You Will Be, The
This picture book, written in verse, celebrates the love parents feel for t…
What Do You Do With a Problem?
A child has a persistent problem that follows him as a dark, ominous, and t…
Yiddish for Pirates
Moishe, a young Jewish man accompanied by his parrot Aaron—the narrator—lon…
You’re Here For a Reason
When a boy lets go of his kite as he stops to help an elephant, it travels …
Le grand saut
Iris, Paul, Rébecca, Marion, Alex et Sam sont amis depuis la sixième. Aujou…
L’horizon
Au gré de ses pérégrinations dans Paris, Jean Bosmans se remémore « des bri…