Door of no return by Alexander, Kwame 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2022)

BTSB #: 050319 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.9 MG+ Lexile: NP F&P: Z+

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Novels in verse African Americans - Fiction United States - History|y19th century - Fiction

Summary: A novel in verse about an Asante boy who is captured and taken from his village during the nineteenth century.

Hope of elephants by Hill, Amanda Rawson 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2022)

BTSB #: 404771 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3.7 MG Lexile: 530

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Novels in verse Cancer - Fiction Birth defects - Fiction Death - Fiction Father-daughter relationship - Fiction Grief - Fiction

Summary: In this novel in blank verse, twelve-year-old Cass struggles to cope with her father's recurring cancers that have dominated her whole life, with the knowledge that he is likely to die soon because the latest recurrence is worse--and with the possibility that she may have inherited the genetic disease, Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, that causes the cancers.

Odder by Applegate, Katherine 

BTSB Prebound(Feiwel and Friends, 2022)

BTSB #: 064987 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.6 MG Lexile: NP

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Sea otters - Fiction Animal rescue - Fiction Novels in verse

Summary: Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her.

Road to after by Lowell, Rebekah 

BTSB Prebound(Penguin, 2022)

BTSB #: 589168 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.4 MG

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Novels in verse Survival skills - Fiction Psychological abuse - Fiction Psychotherapy - Fiction Family life - Fiction

Summary: Eleven-year-old Lacey rediscovers life and the soothing power of nature and art after she, her little sister, and mom escape from their controlling and abusive father.

Seed in the sun by Salazar, Aida 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2022)

BTSB #: 774635 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
Lexile: NP

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: Novels in verse Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970 - Fiction Agricultural laborers - Fiction Strikes - Fiction Mexican Americans - Fiction

Summary: Lula, a farm-working girl with big dreams, meets Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other labor rights activists and joins the 1965 protest for workers' rights.