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English
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2023 Caudill Award Nominees
2023 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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2023 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
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"Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor, an Indian-American boy growing up in small-town Indiana, struggles to come to terms with his identity, including that he may be gay"--Provided by publisher.
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Publication Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Apr 25 4th/5th grade
Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Black Lives Fiction
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Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Black Lives Fiction
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Description
Caleb Franklin and his big brother Bobby Gene have the whole summer for adventures in the woods behind their house in Sutton, Indiana. Caleb dreams of venturing beyond their ordinary small town, but his dad likes the family to stay close to home. Then Caleb and Bobby Gene meet new neighbor Styx Malone. Styx is sixteen and oozes cool. He's been lots of different places. Styx promises Caleb and Bobby Gene that together, they can pull off the Great Escalator...
4) Rosetown
Author
Publication Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1972, Flora Smallwood, nine, copes with her parents' separation with the help of her friends, Yury and Nessie, a new pet, and the familiar routines of life in Rosetown, Indiana.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Publication Date
[2012, ©2001]
Language
English
Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
7) Tall tales
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Publication Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Meg Summers and her family move to a new state every few years as her alcoholic father tries to get a fresh start, but when they land in Indiana and Meg finally makes a real friend and begins to talk about her family's problems, they all find the strength to try to change their destiny.


