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• Figure It Out, Henri Weldon

  Davis, Tanita S,

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  Seventh-grader Henri navigates the demands of her learning disability, dyscalculia, a new school, and family dynamics.

• Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

  Bowling, Dusti,

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  New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.

• Hummingbird

  Lloyd, Natalie,

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  When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy, but if she can find the magical wish-granting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New From Here

  Yang, Kelly,

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  Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.

• Moonwalking

  Elliott, Zetta,

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  In 1980s Brooklyn, new student JJ Pankowski, an autistic, punk-rock-lover, befriends Pie Velez, an Afro-Latinx math geek and graffiti artist.

• Tornado Brain

  Patrick, Cat,

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  Seventh-grader Frankie, who has various sensory disorders, is determined to find her missing best friend, Colette, before it is too late.

• Gut Reaction

  Larson, Kirby,

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  Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.

• Shiny Misfits

  Zayid, Maysoon,

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  Bay Ann is sure her tap dance will shine at the school talent show, but when her crush, Alyee Maq, catches her before she falls (which was his fault anyway) and gets all the "fame" she is determined to beat him at his own attention-seeking…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn

  Pla, Sally J,

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  Follows thirteen-year-old neurodivergent Maudie during an eventful summer in California with her father, where she struggles with whether to share a terrible secret about life with her mom and stepdad.

• Good Different

  Kuyatt, Meg Eden,

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  Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Forget Me Not

  Terry, Ellie,

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  When her mother breaks up with yet another boyfriend, Calliope meets Jinsong at her latest middle school, who becomes her friend despite her Tourette syndrome and the embarrassment it can cause.

• Paige Not Found

  Wilde, Jen,

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  "An adventure story that examines consent and privacy in a way that books have not had to before this generation where everything is online. As much as Paige hates the word normal, it's a pretty good word to describe her life, and the kind…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Can You See Me?

  Scott, Libby,

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  Eleven-year-old Tally is starting sixth grade at Kingswood Academy and she really wants to fit in, which means somehow hiding her autism, hypersensitivity to touch, and true self, and trying to act "normal" like her former best friend,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hello, Universe

  Kelly, Erin Entrada,

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  Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him. Virgil feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Storm Runner

  Cervantes, J. C. (Jennifer C.),

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  To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cut Loose!

  Stroker, Ali, 1987-

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  Thirteen-year-old Nat jumps at the chance to participate in the middle school regional theater competition where the winner gets to perform on Broadway, but when stressful rehearsals negatively impact her friendships, she starts to wonder…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Air

  Roe, Monica, 1978-

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  Twelve-and-a-half year old Emelyn Ethrige lives with her father in South Carolina, dreams of wheelchair motocross, and makes custom chair bags trying to earn enough money to buy a serious set of wheels. She has been in a wheelchair all her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Welcome Back, Maple Mehta-Cohen

  McGovern, Kate,

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  "Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Aniana Del Mar Jumps in

  Mendez, Jasminne,

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  A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become.