

To Night Owl From Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer (MG, fiction, written in letters and emails)Ĩ1. Dog Man by Dav Pilkey (MG, graphic novel)Ĩ0. A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee (MG, fiction, Black Lives Matter)ħ9. The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin (MG, fiction)ħ8. Caterpillar Summer by Gillian McDunn (MG, fiction, siblings and family drama)ħ7. The Lost Girl by Anne Ursu (MG, fantasy)ħ6. Pride by Ibi Zoboi (YA, fiction, modernization of Pride and Prejudice in NYC)ħ5. More to the Story by Hena Khan (MG, fiction, Muslim family drama)ħ4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Wrecking Ball by Jeff Kinney (MG)ħ3. Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (YA? Kind of in between. A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi (YA but safe for MG, fiction, Muslim girl loves popular boy after 9/11)ħ1. The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA by Brenda Woods (MG)ħ0.

Frankly in Love by David Yoon (YA, realistic fiction, Korean American high school kids)Ħ8. Count Me In by (MG, realistic fiction)Ħ7.

The Arrival of Someday by Jen Malone (YA, fiction, unexpected ending)Ħ6. The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan (YA, fiction, Bangladeshi kids, Muslim family, arranged marriage)Ħ4. The Line Tender by Kate Allen (MG, fiction, sad, sharks, thoughtful)Ħ3. This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki (YA, graphic novel, teen pregnancy, summer)Ħ2.
