Goodreads List
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Book Recommendations For Older Students
Intermediate School
- Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar
- El Deafo by Cece Bell
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
- When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
- Amina's Voice by Hena Khan
- Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lại
- The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks
Middle School
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
- Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- New Kid by Jerry Craft
- Starfish by Lisa Fipps
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Muños Ryan
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
High School+
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
- Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Native Son by Richard Wright
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