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November 2025
WRITING HISTORY & HEROES: MIDDLE GRADE FICTION
One summer. Forty-six mountain peaks. A second chance to make things right. In The Trouble with Heroes, Kate Messner takes readers on a heart-filling journey as a seventh grade boy finds his path to healing. The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri is the harrowing true story of two orphans on a treacherous journey across mountains to bring education to isolated children with a chalkboard and a satchel full of textbooks.…
THE VERSE IS THE SWORD: NOVELS IN VERSE – FICTION & POETRY
These novels-in-verse speak truth into the world. Based on a true story, A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by Mária Dolores Águila is a vivid and uplifting middle-grade novel about one child’s courage to stand up for what is right. Told through searing free-verse, journal entries, and interspersed fill-in-the-blank poetry prompts, Truth Is by Hannah V. Sawyerr reminds readers there is always hope when a teen fights for her right to determine what happens to her body,…
CUBAN AMERICAN AUTHORS TRAVERSE SEA & SKY – FICTION & NONFICTION
GRADES 3-7 Three Cuban American authors celebrate the resilient hope of the journeying heart in their newest middle grade novels. In A Raft of Dreams, Jenisbel Acevedo shares the author’s experiences immigrating from Cuba on the boat that both represented the pain of leaving everything behind, and the restoration of her ability to dream and hope. Ruth Behar’s Across So Many Seas retraces five hundred years of Jewish women who moved their families from Spain to Turkey to Cuba and finally Miami to flee persecution and find opportunity.…
DEADLY EVER AFTER: DARK ROMANTIC FANTASY – FICTION
In Kalynn Bayron’s Frankenstein-tinged horror romance, Make Me A Monster, a newly certified mortician’s assistant at her parents’ funeral home discovers that the family business is a bit more complicated than it seems. Don’t miss Fortress of Ambrose, the explosive finale of the New York Times bestselling House of Marionne series by J. Elle, where deadly rivalries and deadlier love tip the scales between freedom and destruction. The Last Vampire by Romina Garber begins in a boarding school where a girl expects to find her own Mr.…