NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback

1) Hidden figures: the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space

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#1 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.

2) A long walk to water

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Park, Linda Sue

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#2 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 75 week(s).

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eAudiobook, Young Adult Book

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When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

3) Offender reentry: beyond crime and punishment

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Gunnison, Elaine

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#3 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 75 week(s).

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4) Percy Jackson's Greek gods

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Riordan, Rick

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#5 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 26 week(s).

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"Percy Jackson, a modern-day demigod, tells the origin stories of the gods of Olympus and provides an insider's point of view - with plenty of attitude - in this illustrated collection"-- "A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they...

5) Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library

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Grabenstein, Chris

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#7 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 71 week(s).

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Young Adult Book

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"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--Provided by publisher.

6) The war that saved my life

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Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

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#8 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 22 week(s).

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A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.

7) Brown girl dreaming

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Woodson, Jacqueline

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#9 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 10 week(s).

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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...

8) Out of my mind

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Draper, Sharon M

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#10 on the Children’s Middle Grade Paperback list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 72 week(s).

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Children's Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.