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Global Reading Challenge TitlesUniversity of Chicago Laboratory SchoolsSorted by Author / Title.Alvarez, Julia.?How Tía Lola came to (visit) stay (paperback).?New York : Yearling, [2002], c2001.Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her.Balliett, Blue, 1955-.?Chasing Vermeer.?1st pbk. ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2005, c2004.When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.Banerjee, Anjali.?Looking for Bapu (paperback).?1st Yearling ed. New York : Yearling, 2008, c2006.When his beloved grandfather dies, eight-year-old Anu feels that his spirit is near and will stop at nothing to bring him back, including trying to become a Hindu holy man.Bell, Cece.?El Deafo.?New York : Amulet Books, 2014.A graphic novel memoir of author/illustrator Cece Bell who grew up hearing impaired.Bruchac, Joseph.?Children of the longhouse.?NY : Dial Books, 1996.Eleven-year-old Ohkwa'ri and his twin sister must make peace with a hostile gang of older boys in their Mohawk village during the late 1400's.Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-.?The warriors.?Plain City, OH : Darby Creek Pub., c2003.An Iroquois boy known on the reservation for his talent at the sacred game of lacrosse moves to Washington, D.C., with his mother and grows frustrated with the misleading statements about Native Americans that his new lacrosse coach makes.Clements, Andrew, 1949-.?Extra credit.?1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009.Three young middle-school-age children, Abby, Amira, and Sadeed, exchange letters back and forth between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan and begin to bridge a gap across cultural and religious divides.Clements, Andrew, 1949-.?No talking.?1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2007.The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.Corbett, Sue.?Free baseball (paperback).?New York : Puffin Books, 2008, c2006.Eleven-year-old Felix becomes a bat boy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder.Curtis, Christopher Paul.?Bud, not Buddy.?New York : Delacorte Press, [2002], c1999.Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.Curtis, Christopher Paul.?The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963.?New York : Delacorte Press, 1995.The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.DiCamillo, Kate.?Because of Winn-Dixie.?Cambridge, MA : Candlewick, 2000.Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.Donwerth-Chikamatsu, Annie.?Somewhere among.?1st ed. New York : A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2016].Eleven-year-old Emma's life in Tokyo changes for the worse when she and her American mother, who is pregnant, must move in with her Japanese grandmother the summer before 9/11 changes the world.Dowd, Siobhan.?The London Eye mystery.?1st American ed. New York : David Fickling Books, 2008.When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.Dumas, Firoozeh.?It ain't so awful, falafel.?Boston : Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]."Eleven-year-old Zomorod, originally from Iran, tells her story of growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s"--Provided by publisher.Engle, Margarita.?Forest world.?1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2017].Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.Erdrich, Louise.?The birchbark house.?1st ed. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c1999.Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.Fleming, Candace.?Lowji discovers America.?1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2005.A nine-year-old East Indian boy tries to adjust to his new life in suburban America.Flores-Galbis, Enrique.?90 miles to Havana.?1st ed. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2010.When unrest hits the streets of Havana, Cuba, Julian's parents must make the heartbreaking decision to send him and his two brothers away to Miami via the Pedro Pan operation. But when the boys get to Miami, they are thrust into a world where bullies seem to run rampant and it's not always clear how best to protect themselves.Frazier, Sundee Tucker, 1968-.?Brendan Buckley's universe and everything in it.?1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2007.Brendan Buckley, a biracial ten-year-old, applies his scientific problem-solving ability and newfound interest in rocks and minerals to connect with his white grandfather, the president of Puyallup Rock Club, and to learn why he and Brendan's mother are estranged.Going, K. L (Kelly L.).?The liberation of Gabriel King.?New York : Puffin Books, 2007, c2005.Gabriel, a white boy who is being bullied, and Frita, an African-American girl facing prejudice, decide to overcome their many fears together as they enter fifth grade in Georgia in 1976.Gutman, Dan.?Jackie & me.?1st ed. New York : Avon Books, [2000], c1999.With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, turning into a black boy in the process.Hannigan, Kate.?The detective's assistant.?1st ed.: April 2015. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2015."In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what happened to Nell's own father. Includes author's note and bibliographic references"--Provided by publisher.Hill, Kirkpatrick.?The year of Miss Agnes.?1st ed. New York : M. K. McElderry Books, c2000.Ten-year-old Fred (short for Frederika) narrates the story of school and village life among the Athapascans in Alaska during 1948 when Miss Agnes arrived as the new teacher.Hoobler, Dorothy.?The ghost in the Tokaido Inn.?New York : Philomel Books, 1999.While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.Horvath, Polly.?Everything on a waffle.?New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001.Eleven-year-old Primrose, who lives in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.Johns, Linda.?Hannah West in the Center of the Universe : a mystery (paperback).?Sleuth ed. New York : Sleuth Puffin, 2007.Hannah finds herself in the middle of a dognapping mystery while she and her mother house-sit in Seattle's Fremond neighborhood, also known as the Center of the Universe.Kelly, Erin Entrada.?Hello universe.?1st ed. New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017].The 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.Lai, Thanhha.?Inside out & back again.?1st ed. New York : Harper, c2011.Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.Levine, Gail Carson.?Dave at night.?New York : HarperCollins, 1999.When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance.Lin, Grace.?The year of the dog : a novel.?1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2006.Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.Lombard, Jenny.?Drita, my homegirl.?New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2006.When ten-year-old Drita and her family, refugees from Kosovo, move to New York, Drita is teased about not speaking English well, but after a popular student named Maxine is forced to learn about Kosovo as a punishment for teasing Drita, the two girls soon bond.Martin, Ann M., 1955-.?Rain reign.?1st ed.: 2014. New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2014."Struggling with Asperger's syndrome, Rose shares a bond with her beloved dog, but when the dog goes missing during a storm, Rose is forced to confront the limits of her comfort levels , even if it means leaving her routines in order to search for her pet"--OCLC.McSwigan, Marie.?Snow treasure.?Dutton, 1964,c1942.Peter, along with his sister and friends, sled through the late winter snow to prevent Nazi soldiers from obtaining Norway's gold for use in financing the war.Merrill, Jean.?The toothpaste millionaire.?Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2006].Kate MacKinstrey explains how her friend went from being a poor sixth-grader to an eighth-grade millionaire by making a cheaper, better toothpaste--with her help.Montes, Marisa.?A crazy mixed-up Spanglish day / (paperback).?New York : Scholastic Press, c2003.In Northern California, Maritza Gabriela Morales Mercado struggles to deal with the third grade bully, to control her temper, and to remember to speak Spanish at home and English at school.Morpurgo, Michael.?Kensuke's kingdom.?New York : Scholastic Press, [2003], c1999.When Michael is swept off his family's yacht, he washes up on a desert island, where he struggles to survive--until he finds he is not alone.Namioka, Lensey.?Half and half.?New York : Dell Yearling, [2004], c2003.At Seattle's annual Folk Fest, twelve-year-old Fiona and her older brother are torn between trying to please their Chinese grandmother and making their Scottish grandparents happy.O'Connor, Barbara.?How to steal a dog : a novel / (paperback).?1st Square Fish ed. New York : Square Fish, 2009, c2007.Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.O'Connor, Barbara.?The small adventure of Popeye and Elvis.?1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.In Fayette, South Carolina, the highlight of Popeye's summer is learning vocabulary words with his grandmother until a motor home gets stuck nearby and Elvis, the oldest boy living inside, joins Popeye in finding the source of strange boats floating down the creek.Park, Linda Sue.?The kite fighters (paperback).?New York : Dell Yearling, [2002], c2000.In Korea in 1473, eleven-year-old Young-sup overcomes his rivalry with his older brother Kee-sup, who as the first-born son receives special treatment from their father, and combines his kite-flying skill with Kee-sup's kite-making skill in an attempt to win the New Year kite-fighting competition.Park, Linda Sue.?A single shard.?New York : Clarion Books, c2001.Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.Perkins, Mitali.?Tiger boy.?Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2015].A tiger cub has escaped from a reserve in the Sunderbans in West Bengal, India, and Neel, a poor boy from the islands, is determined to find her in order to save her from being captured and sold on the black market by Mr. Gupta and his men.Resau, Laura.?Star in the forest / (paperback).?1st Yearling ed. New York : Yearling, 2012, c2010.After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return.Rhodes, Jewell Parker.?Ninth Ward / (paperback).?1st pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2012, c2010.In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.Ryan, Pam Mu?oz.?Becoming Naomi León.?1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 2004.When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.Ryan, Pam Mu?oz.?Esperanza rising.?1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 2000.Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.Sepahban, Lois.?Paper wishes.?1st ed., 2016. New York : Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2016.Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.Weeks, Sarah.?Save me a seat.?1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2016.Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.Williams-Garcia, Rita.?P.S. be eleven.?1st ed. New York, NY : Amistad, [2013].After spending the Summer of 1968 with their mother and the Black Panthers, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern return home to Brooklyn with a new feeling of independence, but they discover their father has a new girlfriend, Uncle Darnell has come home from Vietnam a changed man, and Big Ma still expects Delphine to take care of everything. Feeling overwhelmed, Delphine writes to her mother, who reminds her to enjoy being eleven and not grow up too fast.Woodruff, Elvira.?The orphan of Ellis Island : a time-travel adventure.?New York : Scholastic, 1997.Includes bibliography. During a school trip to Ellis Island, Dominic Cantori, a ten-year-old foster child, travels back in time to 1908 Italy and accompanies two young emigrants to America.Woods, Brenda.?My name is Sally Little Song.?Perfection Learning, c2007.Twelve-year-old Sally Harrison and her family are slaves on a Georgia plantation; but when they learn that Sally and her brother are to be sold farther south, they make plans to escape into Seminole country in Florida.Woodson, Jacqueline.?Brown girl dreaming.?New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2014]."The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South"--Provided by publisher.Woodson, Jacqueline.?Last summer with Maizon.?New York : Puffin Books, 2002, c1991.Eleven-year-old Margaret tries to accept the inevitable changes that come one summer when her father dies and her best friend Maizon goes away to a private boarding school.Woodson, Jacqueline.?Locomotion.?New York : Speak, 2004, c2003.Inspired by his teacher, eleven-year-old Lonnie begins to write about his life in a series of poems in which he discusses his feelings about his friends, his foster mom, his little sister Lili, and the death of his parents. ................
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