Bird by Chan, Crystal 

Paperback(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015)

BTSB #: 205851 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 730

Genres:

Subjects: Superstition - Fiction Grief - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Selective mutism - Fiction Racially-mixed people - Fiction Iowa - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Jewel was born on the day her brother Bird died and lives in a house of silence and secrets, but a new boy in her Iowa town may help find the answers Jewel wants despite her Jamaican grandfather's warning that he is a "duppy," a malevolent spirit.

If you're reading this by Reedy, Trent 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2014)

BTSB #: P02666 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   


Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Letters - Fiction Mother-son relationship - Fiction School stories High schools - Fiction Soldiers - Fiction Family life - Iowa. - Fiction Iowa - Fiction

Summary: For a responsible sixteen-year-old, Michael Wilson has a lot of problems--his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, and does not want him playing football, and he has suddenly started to receive letters that his father wrote before his death.

Rotters by Kraus, Daniel 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2012)

BTSB #: P01806 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Bullies - Fiction High schools - Fiction Iowa - Fiction

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.

Ten beautiful things by Griffin, Molly Beth 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2021)

BTSB #: 402116 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
AR: 3.3 LG F&P: M

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Moving - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction Automobile travel - Fiction Loss (Psychology) - Fiction Iowa - Fiction

Summary: Lily is moving into her grandmother's farm in Iowa, and she is sad about all the changes necessary in her life--but on the long drive her grandmother challenges her to find ten beautiful things that they can share together.