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Do you have a required reading list for school? Be sure to place holds for your required books early. Get started on your reading list now and those books can help you earn Summer of Reading prizes!

¿Tienes una lista de libros requeridos por tu escuela o colegio? Asegúrate de reservar tus libros requeridos con anticipación. ¡Empieza a leer los libros de tu lista ahora para poder ganar premios del programa del Verano de Lectura!

The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky
by Farah Ahmedi with Tamim Ansary
Farah Ahmedi is born into the world just as the war between the mujahadeen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. Bombs are falling all over her country, and her native Kabul is swelling with thousands of people looking for homes and jobs. When Farah steps on a land mine on her way to school, her world becomes much smaller than the dreams and hopes of her heart.

Colibrí
by Ann Cameron
Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.

Serendipity Market
by Penny Blubaugh
When the world begins to seem unbalanced, Mama Inez calls ten storytellers to the Serendipity Market and, through the power of their magical tales, the balance of the world is corrected once again.

Home of the Brave
Katherine Applegate
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.

The Trouble Begins
Linda Himelblau
Reunited with his family for the first time since he was a baby, fifth grader Du struggles to adapt to his new home in the United States.

The Cow of No Color: Riddle Stories and Justice Tales from Around the World
Nina Jaffee
In each of these stories, collected from around the world, a character faces a problem situation which requires that he make a decision about what is fair or just.

The Day of the Pelican
Katherine Paterson
In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.

A Single Shard
Linda Sue Park
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.

Sold
Patricia McCormick
A novel in vignettes, in which Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal, is sold into prostitution in India.

Runner
Robert Newton
In Richmond, Australia, in 1919, fifteen-year-old Charlie Feehan becomes an errand boy for a notorious mobster, hoping that his ability to run will help him, his widowed mother, and his baby brother to escape poverty.