Battle of the Books 2022 Prairie Waters School
Ban this book
Gratz, Alan, 1972-, author
2017
A fourth grader fights back when 'From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg' is challenged by a well-meaning parent and taken off the shelves of her school library. Amy Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but don't mess with her when it comes to her favorite book in the whole world. Amy Anne and her lieutenants wage a battle for the books that will make you laugh and pump your fists as they start a secret banned books locker library, make up ridiculous reasons to ban every single book in the library to make a point, and take a stand against censorship.
The barren grounds
Robertson, David, 1977- author
2020
Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home -- until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing them onto frozen, barren grounds, where they meet Ochek (Fisher). The only hunter supporting his starving community, Misewa, Ochek welcomes the human children, teaching them traditional ways to survive. But as the need for food becomes desperate, they embark on a dangerous mission. Accompanied by Arik, a sassy Squirrel they catch stealing from the trapline, they try to save Misewa before the icy grip of winter freezes everything -- including them.
The complete story of Sadako Sasaki and the thousand cranes
DiCicco, Sue.
2020
Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on her city of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. Ten years later, just as life was starting to feel almost normal again, this athletic and enthusiastic girl was fighting a war of a different kind. One of many children affected by the bomb, she had contracted leukemia. Patient and determined, Sadako set herself the task of folding 1000 paper cranes in the hope that her wish to be made well again would be granted. Her life and her death carry a message: we must have a wholehearted desire for peace and be willing to work together to achieve it.
Go show the world : a celebration of Indigenous heroes
Kinew, Wab, 1981- author
2018
Using rhyming lyrics from a previously written rap song, Midewin author, Manitoba politician, and creator Kinew tells the stories of diverse Indigenous heroes both historical and contemporary from the U.S. and Canada.
Insignificant events in the life of a cactus
Bowling, Dusti, author
2017
New friends and a mystery help Aden, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
A long walk to water : based on a true story
Park, Linda Sue, author
2010
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.
Restart
Korman, Gordon, author
2017
Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?
The strangers
Haddix, Margaret Peterson, author
2019
Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma and Finn. They have been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom. Everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach them, and they're shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these strangers. Before they can question their mom about it, she takes off on a sudden work trip. Puzzling clues left behind lead to complex codes, hidden rooms, and a dangerous secret that will turn their world upside down.