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• Newbery Honor
- One of Elizabeth's favorites! Fun story about Cece and her hearing superpower.

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- With striking black-and-white artwork, Abirached recalls the details of ordinary life inside a war zone - Beirut in the 80s. This is also a translated book.

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- First in the series.
- Lupe Impala, El Chavo Flapjack, and Elirio Malaria love working with cars. You name it, they can fix it. But the team's favorite cars of all are lowriders--cars that hip and hop, dip and drop, go low and slow, bajito y suavecito. The stars align when a contest for the best car around offers a prize of a trunkful of cash--just what the team needs to open their own shop! ¡Ay chihuahua!

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• Pura Belpre Award
- Second in series.
- The lovable trio is back! Lupe Impala, Elirio Malaria, and El Chavo Octopus are living their dream at last. They're the proud owners of their very own garage. But when their beloved cat Genie goes missing, they need to do everything they can to find him.

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- Third in series.
- When new friends Lupe, Flapjack, and Elirio are each bullied by Las Matamoscas, they know they're going to like one another. When they find out they all love lowrider cars, they know they'll be friends for life. But the bullies won't leave the Lowriders alone--and they don't let any girls or babies into car clubs. Can these three determined outcasts prove they deserve to be in the car show?

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- An Italian town deals with the aftermath of a devastating earthquake Matteo, Guilia, and Federico have ordinary lives: they spend time with friends, help out their families, and go to school. Then, in a single night, everything changes. A translated book.

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• Coretta Scott King Honor
- A biography of a bookstore! (But also the man who started it.). In Harlem in the 1930s Lewis Michaux, Sr. started an influential bookstore and people from all over came to visit it, including some very famous people. Illustrates the power of books.
- One of Elizabeth's favorites, of course!!

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* Printz Award for YA Lit 2021
• Walter honor for younger readers 2021
- The unforgettable voice of a young refugee gives this groundbreaking autobiographical work its beating heart. At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy...and further back to the fields near the river Aras, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything, and further back still to the Jasmine-scented city of Isfahan. We bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs to the heroines and heroes of Khosrou's family's past, who ate pastries that made people weep and cry "Akh, Tamar!" and touched carpets woven with precious gems.

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• Carter G. Woodson Book Award
- Fred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio, playing tennis, and hanging around with his friends—just like lots of other Americans. But everything changed when the United States went to war with Japan in 1941 and the government forced all people of Japanese ancestry to leave their homes on the West Coast and move to distant prison camps. This included Fred, whose parents had immigrated to the United States from Japan many years before. But Fred refused to go. He knew that what the government was doing was unfair. And when he got put in jail for resisting, he knew he couldn't give up.

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• Sibert Award
• Pura Belpre Honor
•Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award
- Funny Bones tells the story of how the amusing calaveras--skeletons performing various everyday or festive activities--came to be. They are the creation of Mexican artist José Guadalupe (Lupe) Posada & have become synonymous with Mexico's Día de los Muertos festival.

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* Sibert Award
- One of the first naturalists to observe live insects directly, Maria Sibylla Merian was also one of the first to document the metamorphosis of the butterfly. In this visual nonfiction biography, the author paints her own picture of one of the first female entomologists and a woman who flouted convention in the pursuit of knowledge and her passion for insects.

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• Coretta Scott King Honor
• Sibert Honor
- Bio of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world.
- Christian Robinson is one of Elizabeth's favorite illustrators!

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• Coretta Scott King Honor
- The poignant story, based on the memoir of Maritcha Rémond Lyons, shows what it was like to be a black child born free and living in New York City in the mid-1800s.

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• Sibert Honor
- This striking work of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six-year-old Sachiko Yasui's survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945, and the heartbreaking and lifelong aftermath.

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• Pura Belpre Honor
• Sibert Honor
- Seven years before Brown v. Board of Education, the Mendez family fought to end segregation in California schools. Discover their incredible story in this picture book from award-winning creator Duncan Tonatiuh

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• Pura Belpre Honor
- Tonatiuh brings to life the story of a war hero Jose de la Luz Saenz. Although he was born in the United States, he and his family experienced prejudice because of their Mexican heritage. When World War I broke out, Luz volunteered to join the fight. Because of his ability to quickly learn languages, he became part of the Intelligence Office in Europe.

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• Carter G. Woodson Award
- A picture book biography of pioneering African American scientist Ernest Everett Just.
- Beautiful illustrations.

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- 3rd book in the Mothers of Xsan series (same series as The Grizzly Mother)

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• Coretta Scott King Award
- On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that shook the city of Chicago to its foundations. This mesmerizing narrative draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of the explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture.

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- The Grizzly Mother uses striking illustration and lyrical language to bring the poetry of the Xsan ecosystem to life. Follow mother bear as she teaches her cubs what they need to survive on their own.
- Informative book with cool pictures.

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• Excellence in NF for Young Adults finalist
• Sibert Honor 2021
- The Moon landing is one of the most ambitious, thrilling, and dangerous ventures in human history. This exquisitely researched and illustrated book tells the stories of the 400,000 unsung heroes--the engineers, mathematicians, seamstresses, welders, and factory workers--and their innovations and life-changing technological leaps forward that allowed NASA to achieve this unparalleled accomplishment.

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• Sibert Honor
- This up-close look at a fascinating scientific discovery highlights the critical role predators such as sea otters play in keeping ecosystems healthy.
- Super informative but with cute pictures of sea otters. A win-win!

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• won a few Canadian book awards
- 2nd book in the Mothers of Xsan series

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• Sibert Award
• Carter G. Woodson Award
- On May 4, 1961, a group of thirteen black and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Ride, aiming to challenge the practice of segregation on buses and at bus terminal facilities in the South. The Ride would last twelve days. Despite the fact that segregation on buses crossing state lines was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1946, and segregation in interstate transportation facilities was ruled unconstitutional in 1960, these rulings were routinely ignored in the South. The thirteen Freedom Riders intended to test the laws and draw attention to the lack of enforcement with their peaceful protest. As the Riders traveled deeper into the South, they encountered increasing violence and opposition.

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- Boredom: humankind's age-old adversary. It's a state that is undesirable, uninteresting . . . and just plain boring. But as one particularly bored boy discovers, there's actually more to boredom than meets the eye.
- This picture book is funny!
- Originally published in Japan.

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- Yumi and her grandmother have the same great idea: They want to see each other. So they each head out to do just that, only to completely miss each other along the way!
- Great illustrations...remind me of Tomie de Paola a bit.
- Originally published in Japan.

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- Cartwheel moves to a new country with her auntie, and everything is strange: the animals, the plants--even the wind. An old blanket gives Cartwheel comfort when she's sad--and a new blanket just might change her world.
- First published in Australia

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- Grandpa hates being in hospital. He thinks only of the place he was happiest―the island where he used to live. He wants to go back, but they won't let him out of the hospital. So Gottfried Junior, his namesake, helps Grandpa make a plan to run away. They think of everything. Their deception is so complete that when Gottfried Junior finally decides to tell the truth, no one believes him.
- translated from Swedish

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- Yazan no longer goes to the park to play, and he no longer sees his friend who lives next door. Everything around him is changing. His parents sit in front of the television with the news turned up LOUD and Yazan's little red bike leans forgotten against the wall. Will he ever be able to go outside and play? An uplifting story about a courageous little boy growing up in a time of conflict, and the strength of family love.
- Translated from Arabic

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- Giraffe is bored, as usual. He'd love a friend to share things with. So he writes a letter and sends it as far as possible across the other side of the horizon. There he finds a pen pal--Penguin.
- Originally published in Japan

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-Inspired by real-life makers Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie, this picture book champions STEM, girl power and women scientists in a rollicking celebration of curiosity, the power perseverance, and the importance of asking "Why?".

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• Pura Belpre Honor
• Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award
- Gorgeous illustrations and a cool message.

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- The amazing tricks two American soldiers perform on a borrowed bicycle are a fitting finale for the school sports day festivities in a small village in occupied Japan.

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• Newbery Honor
• Caldecott Honor
• Coretta Scott King Honor
• Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award
• Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award
- A super fun book about a boy and the power of a good haircut. Joyful!

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• Pura Belpre Award
• Charlotte Zolotow Award
- Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music no one questioned that rule--until the drum dream girl. Inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, a Chinese-African-Cuban girl who broke Cuba's traditional taboo against female drummers, Drum Dream Girl tells an inspiring true story for dreamers everywhere.

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• Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award
- What good can a splash of color do in a community of gray? As Mira and her neighbors discover, more than you might ever imagine!
- Vibrant illustrations and based on a true story!

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- After a day of being taunted by classmates about her unruly hair, Mackenzie can't take any more and she seeks guidance from her wise and comforting neighbor, Miss Tillie. Using the beautiful garden in the backyard as a metaphor, Miss Tillie shows Mackenzie that maintaining healthy hair is not a chore nor is it something to fear. Most importantly, Mackenzie learns that natural black hair is beautiful.

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- A rollicking read-aloud and terrific "read-to-myself" story, about Isabella's favorite women throughout history!

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- Heartwarming picture book despite the title (deals with forced assimilation)

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- Poignant and gorgeously illustrated...don't want to give the story away. It's a very different kind of children's book.
- First published in Canada

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- A story about a boy going swimming...or is it?
- Originally published in South Korea but it's wordless so I put it in the picture book category. Also omg I love this book!!

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• Pura Belpre Honor
- Izta was the most beautiful princess in the land, and suitors traveled from far and wide to woo her. She fell in love with Popoca, a brave warrior who fought in her father's army--and a man who did not offer her riches but a promise to stay by her side forever. Duncan Tonatiuh retells one of Mexico's cherished legends.

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- Ramadan, the month of fasting, doesn't begin all at once. It begins with a whisper. And a prayer. And a wish. Muslims all over the world celebrate Ramadan and the joyful days of Eid-ul-Fitr at the end of the month of fasting as the most special time of year.

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- Ruth was so excited to take a trip in her family's new car! But she soon found out that black travelers weren't treated very well in some towns. Many hotels and gas stations refused service to black people. Daddy was upset about something called Jim Crow laws . . . Finally, a friendly attendant at a gas station showed Ruth's family The Green Book. It listed all of the places that would welcome black travelers. With this guidebook--and the kindness of strangers--Ruth could finally make a safe journey from Chicago to her grandma's house in Alabama.

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• Sydney Taylor Book Award
- It's 1942. Sam's class is knitting socks for soldiers and Sam is a terrible knitter. Keiko is a good knitter, but some kids at school don't want anything to do with her because the Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor and her family is Japanese American. When Keiko's family is forced to move to a camp for Japanese Americans, can Sam find a way to demonstrate his friendship?

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• Charlotte Zolotow Award
- Funny picture book about Sparky, a pet sloth.

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- This beautiful bedtime story, written by acclaimed Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, describes the gifts given to a newborn baby by all the animals of the Arctic.
- This book is so sweet. And it has many animals not usually found in picture books!

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• Boston Globe/Horn Book Award Winner
- A playful, poetic exploration of color and point of view. We follow a young girl through a year or a day as she examines the colors in the world around her.

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• Caldecott Honor
• Coretta Scott King Award
- The story of how Troy Andrews became Trombone Shorty. This is a picture book autobiography.

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• Governor's General Literary Award (this is a major literary award in Canada)
- When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully coloured clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away.
- Julie Flett, the illustrator, is a favorite of Elizabeth's. The illustrations are beautiful and sweet and help impart a troubled history in a gentle but truthful way.

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• National Picture Book Award finalist
- This vibrant picture book encourages children to show love and support for each other and to consider each other's well-being in their everyday actions.

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• Pura Belpré Illustrator Winner 2021
- Little Lobo is excited to take in a show with wrestling star El Toro in his bustling border town. After getting lunch orders from The Bull and his friends to help prepare for the event, Little Lobo takes readers on a tour of food trucks that sell his favorite foods, like quesadillas with red peppers and Mexican-Korean tacos.

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• Pura Belpre Honor
• Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award
- A middle-grade novel (with some illustrations) about Malu's experiences at her new middle school.

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• Pura Belpre YA Author Winner 2021
- In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life. At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother's narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother's shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams, she'd get an athletic scholarship to a North American university. But the path ahead isn't easy.

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• Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award
- Gabi Hernandez chronicles her last year in high school in her diary: college applications, Cindy's pregnancy, Sebastian's coming out, the cute boys, her father's meth habit, and the food she craves. And best of all, the poetry that helps forge her identity.

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• Newbery Honor
• Coretta Scott King / John Steptoe Award for New Talent
- A middle grade novel tells the story of Genesis who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself. Takes place in and around Detroit.
- Elizabeth highly recommends this book!

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• Newbery Medal
- A fairy tale middle grade novel.
- Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is kind. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon...

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- Bijan Majidi: is shy around girls, really into comics, decent at basketball. Bijan Majidi is not: a terrorist.

What happens when a kid who's flown under the radar for most of high school gets pulled off the bench to make the winning basket in a varsity playoff game? If his name is Bijan Majidi, life is suddenly high fives in the hallways and invitations to exclusive parties--along with an anonymous photo sent by a school cyberbully that makes Bijan look like a terrorist. The administration says they'll find and punish the culprit. Bijan wants to pretend it never happened. He's not ashamed of his Middle Eastern heritage; he just doesn't want to be a poster child for Islamophobia. Lots of classmates rally around Bijan. Others make it clear they don't want him or anybody who looks like him at their school. But it's not always easy to tell your enemies from your friends.

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- A remarkable foursome of Choctaw comrades: a tough-minded teenage girl, a shape-shifting panther teenage boy, a loveable five-year-old ghost who only wants her mom and dad to be happy, and the young narrator, who struggles to remember what a ghost can and cannot do. And let's not forget the talking and insightful dog, Jumper. The first in a trilogy, How I Became A Ghost thinly disguises the harsh reality of the Choctaw Trail of Tears, an important and oft-overlooked history with page-turning tension and deft humor.

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• Newbery Honor
• Sydney Taylor Book Award
- An exciting and hilarious medieval adventure.

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• Coretta Scott King Honor
- A novel told in ten blocks, showing all the different directions kids' walks home can take. Very cool idea for a book!!

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• Newbery Honor
• South Asia Book Award Honor
- It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore. When Papa decides it's too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees and embark first by train but later on foot to reach her new home.

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• National Book Award Children Finalist
• Stonewall Book Award
- Pet is here to hunt a monster but there are no monsters anymore, or so the children are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with the lesson that the city is safe for everyone. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature who some might call monstrous but, in reality, is anything but, she must reconsider what she's been told.

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• Newbery Honor
• Coretta Scott King Award
- Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way. And Jade has: every day she rides the bus away from her friends and to the private school where she feels like an outsider, but where she has plenty of opportunities. But some opportunities she doesn't really welcome, like an invitation to join Women to Women, a mentorship program for "at-risk" girls.
- YA novel with two strong fully realized female characters.

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• Pura Belpre Honor
- Carol and Johnny Garza are 12-year-old twins whose lives in a small Texas town are forever changed by their mother's unexplained disappearance. Shipped off to relatives in Mexico by their grieving father, the twins soon learn that their mother is a nagual, a shapeshifter, and that they have inherited her powers.

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• Coretta Scott King / John Steptoe Award for New Talent
• National Book Award Finalist
• This book is also a movie.

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• Printz honor 2021
• Walter honor for teen readers 2021
- A collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II.

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• Coretta Scott King / John Steptoe Award for New Talent
- A funny and rewarding coming-of-age novel about friendship and loyalty across neighborhood lines and the hardship of life for an urban teen.

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• Newbery Winner 2021
• Asian/Pacific American Award for Lit Children's Lit Winner 2021
• Walter Honor for younger readers 2021
- When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the tigers. Now they want it back. And when one of the tigers approaches Lily with a deal--return what her grandmother stole in exchange for Halmoni's health--Lily is tempted to agree. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice...and the courage to face a tiger.