Talking to Alaska

Out of Heart

All the Greys on Greene Street

Better Than Weird

My Name Is Asher Lev

Saints and Misfits

Poor Mallory!

Bronx Masquerade

The year: 1943. The place: Manhattan. Linus Muller works at the family grocery store in the east 70s. When his oldest brother, Albie, leaves to fight in World War II, Linus takes over the grocery deliveries. One of his customers is an artist from somewhere in Europe who arranges to have a crate of oranges delivered every other week. Over the course of these deliveries, an intimacy develops between Linus and the man, whom he knows only by the name he gives him,  Mister Orange. In the peacefulness of Mister Orange's spare kitchen, they discuss the war, the future, freedom and imagination. Through these conversations, Linus begins to grow up as he wrestles with the realities of war and the place of comic books, superheroes and the imagination in human life.

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Talking to Alaska

Laura Watkinson, Anna Woltz, 2016

Out of Heart

Sharon M. Draper, Irfan Master, 2021

All the Greys on Greene Street

Laura Tucker, Kelly Murphy, 2019

Better Than Weird

Anna Kerz, 2011

My Name Is Asher Lev

Chaim Potok, 1972

Saints and Misfits

S.K. Ali, 2017

Poor Mallory!

Ann M. Martin, 1990

Bronx Masquerade

Nikki Grimes, 2001