The Best Books for the Summer for Young Readers Ages 8–12
Exploring topics from India’s partition to issues of race and injustice, these timely and award-winning titles represent the best in fiction for young readers.
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Add to BookshelfThe Night Diary
by Veera Hiranandani
In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India’s partition, and of one girl’s journey to find a new home in a divided country.
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Harbor Me
by Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson’s first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories.
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Amal Unbound
by Aisha Saeed
The compelling story of a girl’s fight to regain her life and dreams after being forced into indentured servitude.
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