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A Washington Post KidsPost Summer Book Club ReadTwelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes does not want her new classmates to ask about her father. She does not want them to know her mother has been arrested. And she definitely does not want to make any friends. Ruby just wants to stay as silent and invisible as a new moon in the frozen sky. She and her mother won’t be staying long in Vermont anyway, and then things can go back to the way they were before everything went wrong.But keeping to herself isn’t easy when Ahmad Saleem, a Syrian refugee, decides he’s her new best friend. Or when she meets “the Bird Lady,” a recluse named Abigail who lives in a ramshackle shed near Ruby’s house. Before long Ahmad and Abigail have become Ruby’s friends—and she realizes there is more to their stories than everyone knows.As ugly rumors begin to swirl around the people Ruby loves, she must make a choice: break her silence, or risk losing everything that’s come to mean so much to her. Ruby in the Sky is a story of the walls we hide behind, and the magic that can happen when we’re brave enough to break free.

A Bank Street Best Book of 2021A Galaxy of Sea Stars is Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo’s second middle-grade novel—a heartwarming story about family, loyalty, and the hard choices we face in the name of friendship.Sometimes, the truth isn’t easy to see. Sometimes, you have to look below the surface to find it.Eleven-year-old Izzy feels as though her whole world is shifting, and she doesn’t like it. She wants her dad to act like he did before he was deployed to Afghanistan. She wants her mom to live with them at the marina where they’ve moved instead of spending all her time on Block Island. Most of all, she wants Piper, Zelda, and herself—the Sea Stars—to stay best friends, as they start sixth grade in a new school. Everything changes when Izzy’s father invites his former interpreter’s family, including eleven-year-old Sitara, to move into the marina’s upstairs apartment. Izzy doesn’t know what to make of Sitara—with her hijab and refusal to eat cafeteria food—and her presence disrupts the Sea Stars. But in Sitara Izzy finds someone brave, someone daring, someone who isn’t as afraid as Izzy is to use her voice and speak up for herself. As Izzy and Sitara grow closer, Izzy must make a choice: stay in her comfort zone and risk betraying her new friend, or speak up and lose the Sea Stars forever.

A heartfelt middle grade adventure about the magic of friendship, courage, and believing in the impossible, perfect for fans of Katherine Applegate and Barbara O''Connor.Ever since the day when everything changed, Cal Scott''s answer has been to run—run from her mother who''s fighting cancer, run from her father whom she can''t forgive, and run from classmates who''ve never seemed to "get" her anyway. The only thing Cal runs toward is nearby Mt. Meteorite, where she believes the magic from a meteorite that crashed fifty years ago can make the impossible possible and heal her mother.When Cal meets Rosine Kanambe, a girl who''s faced more impossibles than anyone should have to, they form a plan to reach the mountain''s peak together. As the girls climb high and dig deep to face the challenges, Cal learns from Rosine what real courage looks like and begins to wonder if the magic she needs is something different entirely.In Each of Us a Universe, author Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo weaves a glowing story of friendship, inner strength, and discovering that the impossible might be possible after all.