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5.) How this Book was Made by Mac Barnett and Adam Rex

4.) Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand

3.) Ghost by Jason Reynolds

2.) Unusual Chickens For the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones

1.) George by Alex Gino

The Billionaire’s Curse by Richard Newsome

5.) The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Readers Edition) by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

4.) Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

3.) Ghost by Jason Reynolds

2.) Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

1.) Unusual Chickens For the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones

I Survived: The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 by Lauren Tarshis

5.) Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

4.) I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson

3.) The Diviners by Libba Bray

2.) Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

1.) Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older

A Spy in the House by Y. S. Lee

5.) The Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray

4.) Scarlett Epstein Hates it Here by Anna Breslaw

3.) Still Life with Tornado by A. S. King

2.) Symphony for the City of the Dead by M. T. Anderson

1.) Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung

Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky

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