Maizon at Blue Hill by Jacqueline Woodson (grades 4-6)

In the second of a triology, Maizon, a scholarship student, is one of five black students at an exlcusive school in Connecticut. Overcoming feeling like an outcast, Maizon decides to friend no one as she really does not fit in with either side. Through the sensitivity of some students, and loneliness overriding her decison to find a place where she can feel like she belongs, this story embarks on her journey.
Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for adults, children and adolsecent audiences. Her National Book Award Winning memoir Brown Girl Dreaming and her Newbery Honor winning titles After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. Her picture books The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly were NY Times Bestsellers. After serving as the Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress for 2018-2019. She was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2020. In the same year, she was named a McArthur Fellow.