New Children's Fiction
Back to school, Mallory by Laurie B. Friedman.
Synopsis: "After moving, eight-year-old Mallory struggles with being new at school, especially because her mother is now the music teacher and director of the third grade play."
MVP: Magellan Voyage Project by Douglas Evans.
Rosetta, Rosetta, sit by me! by Linda Walvoord.
Synopsis: "In 1848, Rosetta, the nine-year-old daughter of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, becomes the only Black student at Miss Tracy's Female Seminary in Rochester, New York, and while the students are pleased she is there, the faculty is not. Includes facts about Frederick and Rosetta's lives."
Sam I am by Ilene Cooper.
Synopsis: "Twelve-year-old Sam, the son of a Jewish father and Christian mother, struggles to understand religion and its role in his family's life during the Hanukkah and Christmas holidays."