Doctor Megan’s Recommendations

Niki Ames can’t wait to start eighth grade, that all-important year before high school. After a turn of events she must decide who her real friends should be, where her real interests lie.

A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism–and antiracism–in America.

A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice.

Three schoolmates show up at Aru’s doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don’t believe her claim that the museum’s Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. Then she can get herself out of this mess and never ever fib again.

When Louisiana Elefante’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately and this time, Granny intends for them never to return.

In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. Tierney James dreams of a better life, of a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman.

Newbery Honor recipient Margi Preus tells the incredible true story of a group of French teenagers who helped save refugees in WWII.

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival.

A portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship.