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Bandit's Moon
Sid Fleischman

Bandit's Moon

Genre:
Historical Fiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

Annyrose narrates her adventurous saga of life with a Mexican Robin Hood-like bandit as she tries to find her brother who’s off trying to get rich during the California Gold Rush. Part historical fiction, part tall tale, Annyrose is sure to delight readers of all ages.

A Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket
Deborah Hopkinson

A Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket

Genre:
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery / Crime
Age Level:
Middle Grade

Eleven-year-old Rocco is an Italian immigrant who finds himself alone in New York City after he’s sold to a padrone by his poverty-stricken parents. While working as a street musician, he meets the boys of the infamous Bandits’ Roost, who teach him the art of pickpocketing. Rocco embraces his new life of crime—he’s good at it, and it’s more lucrative than banging a triangle on the street corner. But when he meets Meddlin’ Mary, a strong-hearted Irish girl who’s determined to help the horses of New York City, things begin to change. Rocco begins to reexamine his life—and take his future into his own hands.

Bang
Barry Lyga

Bang

Genre:
Fiction
Age Level:
YA

Sebastian and Aneesa create a YouTube pizza making show. For the first time, Sebastian feels like he is in a judge free zone. Because Aneesa is new in town, she doesn’t know his secret…the terrible, horrific secret that he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister when he was four years old.

Bao Phi in a night club at the microphone speaking

Bao Phi

“and i wonder
if i ever will find a language
to speak of the things
that haunt me most.”
― Bao Phi, Thousand Star Hotel

Barnaby Grimes: Curse of the Nightwolf
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

Barnaby Grimes: Curse of the Night Wolf

Genre:
Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery / Crime
Age Level:
Middle Grade

Barnaby Grimes is a “tick-tock lad,” a messenger whose specialty is very fast deliveries, which he achieves by taking the most direct route over the rooftops otherwise known as “highstacking.” In Barnaby’s first adventure, his deliveries for the strange Dr. Cadwallader lead to his discovery of a monstrous secret. There are additional books in the series.