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Lectura de verano para grados 6-8 | 2020 Summer Reading

La ciudad de las bestias (...

Allende, Isabel

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El cuadro desaparecido

Brezenoff, Steve

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Operación demonio

Bowen, Carl

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La historia de greta

Camerini, Valentina

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Frida, el misterio del anillo...

Cervantes, Angela

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El ojo del cementerio

Dahl, Michael

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El único destino (the only...

Diaz, Alexandra

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La encrucijada (the...

Diaz, Alexandra

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Momo

Ende, Michael

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Aire encantado (enchanted air)

Engle, Margarita

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¿amigas para siempre?

Gallagher, Diana G.

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Joven abogado (theodore boone...

Grisham, John

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Vuelta al juego

Maddox, Jake

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La mala del cuento

Mansour Manzur, Vivian

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Yaqui delgado quiere darte...

Medina, Meg

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Confidencias de un superhéroe

Sandoval, Jaime Alfonso

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Nimona

Stevenson, Noelle

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Drama (spanish edition)

Telgemeier, Raina

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Las sombras de la escalera

Vasco, Irene

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El libro salvaje

Villoro, Juan

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Las aventuras de katana en...

Yee, Lisa

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Writers of color - Read 4 Life

Girl, Woman, Other

Evaristo, Bernardine

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I Was Their American Dream

Gharib, Malaka

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Like A Love Story

Nazemian, Abdi

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On Earth We're Briefly...

Vuong, Ocean

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Queenie

Carty-Williams, Candice

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The Lockpicker

Chang, Leonard

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Survival Math

Jackson, Mitchell

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Walking on the Ceiling

Savas, Aysegül

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The Island of Sea Women

See, Lisa

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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

Treuer, David

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Rebel

Jenkins, Beverly

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If Cats Disappeared From the...

Kawamura, Genki

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A Place for Us

Mirza, Fatima Farheen

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The Widows of Malabar Hill

Massey, Sujata

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American War

El Akkad, Omar

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The Talented Ribkins

Hubbard, Ladee

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An Extraordinary Union

Cole, Alyssa

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The Parisian

Hammad, Isabella

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A Kind of Freedom

Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson

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Science fiction and fantasy - Read 4 Life

American War

Akkad, Omar El

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Future Home of the Living God

Erdrich, Louise

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Mask of Shadows

Miller, Linsey

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Exit West

Hamid, Mohsin

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Diego and the Rangers of the...

Baltazar, Armand

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Dread Nation

Ireland, Justina

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Mem

Morrow, Bethany C.

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Akata Warrior

Okorafor, Nnedi

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How Long 'til Black...

Jemisin, N. K.

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Red Clocks

Zumas, Leni

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Rosewater

Thompson, Tade

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The Marrow Thieves

Dimaline, Cherie

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The Alehouse at the End of...

Allred, Stevan

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The City of Brass

Chakraborty, S. A.

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The Oracle Year

Soule, Charles

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Time Was

McDonald, Ian

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The Bird King

Wilson, G. Willow

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A Boy and His Dog at the End...

Fletcher, C. A.

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The Raven Tower

Leckie, Ann

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A Brightness Long Ago

Kay, Guy Gavriel

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Aurora Rising

Kaufman, Amie

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Black Leopard, Red Wolf

James, Marlon

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Friday Black

Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame

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Hollow Kingdom

Buxton, Kira Jane

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Lovely War

Berry, Julie

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Ninth House

Bardugo, Leigh

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On A Sunbeam

Walden, Tillie

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The Gurkha and the Lord of...

Hossain, Saad Z.

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The Memory Police

Ogawa, Yoko

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A book that makes you laugh - Read 4 Life

And Now We Have Everything

O'Connell, Meaghan

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Bullshit Jobs

Graeber, David

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Convenience Store Woman

Murata, Sayaka

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Calypso

Sedaris, David

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French Exit

deWitt, Patrick

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Wow, No Thank You

Irby, Samantha

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You Can Only Yell at Me for...

Marx, Patricia

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On Cussing

Dunn, Katherine

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Don't You Forget About Me

McFarlane, Mhairi

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Point your Face at This

Martin, Demetri

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Funny in Farsi

Dumas, Firoozeh

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Ayesha at Last

Jalaluddin, Uzma

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The Last Black Unicorn

Haddish, Tiffany

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Get A Life, Chloe Brown

Hibbert, Talia

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How to

Munroe, Randall

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Queenie

Carty-Williams, Candice

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The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Waxman, Abbi

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The New Me

Butler, Halle

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The Awkward Thoughts of W....

Bell, W. Kamau

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The Gurkha and the Lord of...

Hossain, Saad Z.

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Classics - Read 4 Life

A Wizard of Earthsea

Le Guin, Ursula K.

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Gilead

Robinson, Marilynne

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The Brief Wondrous Life of...

Díaz, Junot

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The Color Purple

Walker, Alice

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I Know Why the Caged Bird...

Angelou, Maya

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Charlotte's Web

White, E.B.

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The Master and Margarita

Bulgakov, Mikhail

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The Stranger

Camus, Albert

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The Souls of Black Folk

Du Bois, W. E. B.

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Things Fall Apart

Achebe, Chinua

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Pedro páramo

Rulfo, Juan

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Blindness

Saramago, José

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My Antonia

Cather, Willa

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Geek Love

Dunn, Katherine

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Giovanni's Room

Baldwin, James

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Orlando

Woolf, Virginia

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

García Márquez, Gabriel

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Under Heaven

Kay, Guy Gavriel

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Oryx and Crake

Atwood, Margaret

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A Distant Mirror

W. Tuchman, Barbara

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Don Quixote

Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes

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Historical Fiction - Read 4 Life

Country Dark

Offutt, Chris

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Whiskey When We're Dry

Larison, John

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Washington Black

Edugyan, Esi

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The Widows of Malabar Hill

Massey, Sujata

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The House of Impossible...

Cassara, Joseph

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City of Girls

Gilbert, Elizabeth

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Daisy Jones & the Six

Jenkins Reid, Taylor

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Feast your Eyes

Goldberg, Myla

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Gods of Jade and Shadow

Moreno-Garcia, Silvia

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The Gown

Robson, Jennifer

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The Secrets We Kept

Prescott, Lara

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A Kind of Freedom

Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson

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Days Without End

Barry, Sebastian

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The Essex Serpent

Perry, Sarah

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The Last Ballad

Cash, Wiley

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An Extraordinary Union

Cole, Alyssa

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Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk

Rooney, Kathleen

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Deacon King Kong

McBride, James

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I Capture the Castle

Smith, Dodie

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The Hearts of Horses

Gloss, Molly

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The Underground Railroad (...

Whitehead, Colson

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The Miniaturist

Burton, Jessie

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Homegoing

Gyasi, Yaa

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Pachinko

Lee, Min Jin

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The Night Watchman

Erdrich, Louise

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The Shadow King

Mengiste, Maaza

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Short Stories - Read 4 Life

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist...

Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda

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Word Virus

Burroughs, William S.

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Last Stories

Trevor, William

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Vacationland

Hodgman, John

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If You See Me, Don't Say...

Patel, Neel

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Mad Country

Upadhyay, Samrat

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How Long 'til Black...

Jemisin, N. K.

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Tales of Two Americas

Freeman, John

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The World Doesn't...

Scott, Rion Amilcar

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Everything Inside

Danticat, Edwidge

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Sabrina & Corina

Fajardo-Anstine, Kali

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A People's Future of the...

LaValle, Victor

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This Is How You Lose the Time...

El-Mohtar, Amal

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Convenience Store Woman

Murata, Sayaka

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Black Is the Body

Bernard, Emily

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Thunderstruck

McCracken, Elizabeth

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Floyd Harbor

Mowdy, Joel

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Memoir and Biography - Read 4 Life

Survival Math

Jackson, Mitchell

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Good Talk

Jacob, Mira

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The Salt Path

Winn, Raynor

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Gender Queer

Kobabe, Maia

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Greek to Me

Norris, Mary

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Notes From A Young Black Chef

Onwuachi, Kwame

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Native Country of the Heart

Moraga, Cherríe

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Dapper Dan

Day, Daniel R.

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I Was Their American Dream

Gharib, Malaka

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The Lady From the Black Lagoon

O'Meara, Mallory

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The Art of Leaving

Tsabari, Ayelet

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Inheritance

Shapiro, Dani

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The Five

Rubenhold, Hallie

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Maybe You Should Talk to...

Gottlieb, Lori

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Rising Out of Hatred

Saslow, Eli

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A Woman of No Importance

Purnell, Sonia

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Trailblazer

Gilliam, Dorothy Butler

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The Collected Schizophrenias

Weijun Wang, Esmé

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Shaya

Shaya, Alon

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Closer You Are

Cutter, Matthew

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The World According to Fannie...

Davis, Bridgett M.

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Proud

Muhammad, Ibtihaj

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Black Is the Body

Bernard, Emily

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The Wizard and the Prophet

Mann, Charles C.

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When They Call You A Terrorist

Khan-Cullors, Patrisse

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Fashion Climbing

Cunningham, Bill

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American Eden

Johnson, Victoria

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Deep Creek

Houston, Pam

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Truth Worth Telling

Pelley, Scott

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Kid Gloves

Knisley, Lucy

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2020 Summer Reading for grades K-2

Rocket Says Look Up!

Bryon, Nathan

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King & Kayla and the Case...

Butler, Dori Hillestad

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National Geographic Readers:...

Carney, Elizabeth

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The Story of Us

Castillo, Lauren

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Camp Tiger

Choi, Susan

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Pete at the Beach

Dean, James

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Pete at the Beach

Dean, James

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Waiting for Wings

Ehlert, Lois

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The Hike

Farrell, Alison

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Pokko and the Drum

Forsythe, Matthew

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Hello Goodbye Dog

Gianferrari, Maria

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Skyscraper

Hurley, Jorey

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Stinkiest!

Jenkins, Steve

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I Want My Hat Back

Klassen, Jon

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Julián Is A Mermaid

Love, Jessica

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The Proudest Blue

Muhammad, Ibtihaj

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The Proudest Blue

Muhammad, Ibtihaj

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My Papi Has A Motorcycle

Quintero, Isabel

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¡vamos! Let's Go Eat

Raúl the Third

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Dragons Love Tacos

Rubin, Adam

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Dragons Love Tacos

Rubin, Adam

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Baby Animals

Simon, Seymour

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Boxitects

Smith, Kim

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Charlie & Mouse

Snyder, Laurel

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We Are Grateful

Sorell, Traci

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We Are Grateful

Sorell, Traci

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Llama Destroys the World

Stutzman, Jonathan

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Looking for Bongo

Velasquez, Eric

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The Night Is Yours

Zachariah, Abdul-Razak

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2020 Summer Reading for ages 0-5 years

Dinosaur Bones

Barner, Bob

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Brown Baby Lullaby

Brown, Tameka Fryer

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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Cabrera, Jane

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Vegetables in Underwear

Chapman, Jared

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5 Little Ducks

Fleming, Denise

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My Heart Fills With Happiness

Gray Smith, Monique

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Round Is A Tortilla

Greenfield Thong, Roseanne

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Red

Hall, Michael

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What Do You Do If You Work at...

Jenkins, Steve

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Trucks Go

Light, Steve

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Trucks Go

Light, Steve

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Up in the Garden and Down in...

Messner, Kate

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Winnie the Pooh

Milne, A.A.

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Winnie-the-pooh

Milne, A. A.

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Thank You, Omu!

Mora, Oge

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Thank You, Omu!

Mora, Oge

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The Book With No Pictures

Novak, B. J.

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The Book With No Pictures

Novak, B. J.

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The Complete Tales of Beatrix...

Potter, Beatrix

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And Tango Makes Three

Richardson, Justin

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Goodnight, Goodnight,...

Rinker, Sherri Duskey

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The Bunnies Are Not in Their...

Russo, Marisabina

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Fox & Chick

Ruzzier, Sergio

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Fox & Chick

Ruzzier, Sergio

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You Are My Baby: Ocean

Siminovich, Lorena

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Introducing Teddy

Walton, Jessica

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Rude Cakes

Watkins, Rowboat

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A Stone Sat Still

Wenzel, Brendan

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