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The Little Stone Buddha

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By Grace Lin, Martha Brockenbrough, Kate Messner
| Publishers Weekly Verified
A statue’s tumble into a neglected city lot prompts individual and collective action in this artfully told, community-care-focused picture book from Caldecott and Newbery Honoree Lin. When a smiling stone Buddha falls from a bicycle cart and lands face-up under an old mattress, passers-by “hurried by as fast as they could.... And no one ever smiled, except for the Little Stone Buddha,” who maintains the expression amid rumbling traffic, dark nights, and busy feet.
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2026 Summer Reading: Middle School

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By Martha Brockenbrough, Joslin Brorsen, Sherri Winston
| The Horn Book Magazine Verified
Need suggestions for beach reading or books to bring to summer camp? Each of our lists — for all age ranges and including fiction, nonfiction, folklore, and poetry — has thirteen selections (a baker’s dozen!), all published 2025–2026 and ideal for the season. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion.
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At the Edge of Lost

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By Martha Brockenbrough, Jessica Bushore, Devin Elle
| School Library Journal Verified
Gr 4-8–Brockenbrough’s sophomore middle-grade title delivers an emotionally charged survival tale centered on family, resilience, and an unbreakable human-animal bond between a teen and his beloved dog. Caleb wants nothing more than stability after years of moving for his parents’ State Department postings. Staying with his grandfather Poppy in a senior-living community with his best-friend (and dog) Ronan, is comfortable if untraditional—until a virulent avian flu outbreak upends everything.
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