By: Angela Johnson
Charlie (aka Charlene) doesn’t miss her old home on Monroe Street for long once she meets the kids on Magnolia Street. Each chapter is as lively as the young protagonist in this short novel.
By: Beverly Cleary
Ramona is ready for the challenges of a new school — without her older sister. It's a year of change for the Quimby family and if everyone else can adjust, so can Ramona. The normal challenges of family life come alive here with verve and humor.
By: Anne Rockwell
This brief biography begins when 9-year-old Isabella is sold at a slave auction in Kingston, New York. It continues as she transforms into the woman best known as Sojourner Truth, an outspoken critic of slavery and proponent of women's rights.
Drawing of two smiling adults and a child inside a house while another smiling child sits outside the door.
By: Tomie dePaola

Tomie's family starts building their new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue in 1938, just as a hurricane hits town, starting off a busy, crazy year.

By: Laura Wilder
Meet Laura and her family in this first of the Little House series in their cozy Wisconsin log home. Setting and characters come alive through the vivid detail of family life and living in the 1870s.
By: Brad Matsen
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Going to visit a big city on vacation? Think there’s nothing but concrete above and below? Well, think again!
By: Roxie Munro
Lots of vacations include a trip to an amusement park, but how many are trips to an aMAZEment park? Find the way with Ms.
Illustration of young girl floating above the hills
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan

Instead of celebrating her 13th birthday in her prosperous Mexican home as she expected, Esperanza must adjust to the murder of her father, the loss of her house and wealth, and her new life as a farm worker in California during the Great Depression.

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