Books & Libraries in Children's Fiction

Book Uncle and Me by Uma Krishnaswami

• Pub Date: 2016
• Grades 2-4 interest
• See also: International Settings 

The Tiny Hero of the Ferny Creek Library by Linda Bailey

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 3-5 interest
• See also: Animals
• On the blog: Library Heroes 
• A bug who lives in a school loves books and tries to save the library from being turned into a testing center. 

The Theory of Hummingbirds by Michelle Kadarusman

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 4-6 interest
• See also: Nature, Only Children, Teachers/Librarians, Science
• Alba and her friend Levi are really into bird watching, especially hummingbirds. Levi is also interested in A Brief History of Time.

Booked by Kwame Alexander

• Pub Date: 2016
• Grades 5-8 interest
•  See also: Words/Language, Divorce

The Way to Bea by Kat Yeh

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 5-8 interest
• See also: Words, In Verse, Only Child, Starting Middle School, Teachers/Librarians
• Bea reads Stargirl as she is struggling with starting middle school. 

Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 4-7 interest
• See also: In verse, Gardens, Intergenerational 
• Macy gets to know her elderly neighbor when she helps her pack up her books. 

The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 5-8 interest
• See also: Searching, Summer vacation, Only Children, Divorce, LGBT Families
• Candice spends her summer searching for a mysterious fortune that may or may not exist. 

Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring by Angela Cervantes

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 4-6 interest
• See also: Only children 
• Paloma and her mom spend a month in Mexico, and Paloma solves a mystery like her favorite literary detective.

Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 5-8 interest
• Amal may be in indentured service, but she still loves to read. 

The Lost Girl by Anne Ursu

• Pub Date: 2019
• Grades 4-6 interest
• Iris goes to an after school program at the library and the kids talk about books.