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Amelia Earhart
Tanya Lee Stone

Amelia Earhart

Genre:
Biography, Nonfiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

Amelia Earhart was a fiesty 11-year-old when she saw her first air show. Little did she know that a passing fancy for airplanes would develop into a full-throttled passion. As a committed social worker, feminist and record-breaking female pilot, Amelia’s disappearance while flying over the South Pacific remains one of our greatest mysteries.

American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang

American Born Chinese

Genre:
Fiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

Three storylines — contemporary and mythic — intersect in this tale of a boy who is not comfortable with his culture or himself. This fresh, sometimes surprising, revealing novel is told in image and text. This graphic novel was the first of its format to win the Printz Award for best work of Young Adult Literature.

American Earth
Bill McKibben

American Earth

Genre:
Nonfiction
Age Level:
YA

Experience the growth of the environmental movement in poetry, essay, song, and prose from its infancy to present day through the eyes of its champions.