Each month a kid is chosen to curate a display in The Trove with some of their favorite books. Are you interested in being next month’s kid librarian? Fill out a submission form available at The Trove Desk! 

Name: Bhoomi

Age: 11

Favorite type of books: Realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, & mystery.

Why do you like to read? Each book is a new experience.

Check out Bhoomi’s recommended reads!

The Partition Project by Saadia Faruqi
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In this engaging and moving middle grade novel, Saadia Faruqi writes about a contemporary Pakistani American girl whose passion for journalism starts a conversation about her grandmother's experience of the Partition of India and Pakistan–and the bond that the two form as she helps Dadi tell her story.

The War that Saved my Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
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Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute–she sneaks out to join him.

The Vanderbeekers by Karina Yan Glaser
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The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes to stay in their beloved home and convince the dreaded Beiderman just how wonderful they are. And all is fair in love and war when it comes to keeping their home.

Enola Holmes by Nancy Springer
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When Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared–on her 14th birthday nonetheless–she knows she alone can find her. Disguising herself as a grieving widow, Enola sets out to the heart of London to uncover her mother's whereabouts–but not even the last name Holmes can prepare her for what awaits. Suddenly involved in the kidnapping of the young Marquess of Basilwether, Enola must escape murderous villains, free the spoiled Marquess, and perhaps hardest of all, elude her shrewd older brother–all while collecting clues to her mother's disappearance!

The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
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The Land of Stories tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, they leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with fairy tale characters they grew up reading about. But after a series of encounters with witches, wolves, goblins, and trolls alike, getting back home is going to be harder than they thought.

Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger
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The powers buried deep inside her could save—or destroy—them all. Sophie finally discovers where her secret telepathic ability comes from when she learns she’s actually not human, but is from another world that exists side-by-side with ours.

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
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Harry Potter spent ten long years living with Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, an aunt and uncle whose outrageous favoritism of their perfectly awful son Dudley leads to some of the most inspired dark comedy since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But fortunately for Harry, he's about to be granted a scholarship to a unique boarding school called The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he will become a school hero at the game of Quidditch (a kind of aerial soccer played high above the ground on broomsticks), he will make some wonderful friends, and, unfortunately, a few terrible enemies. For although he seems to be getting your run-of-the-mill boarding school experience (well, ok, even that's pretty darn out of the ordinary), Harry Potter has a destiny that he was born to fulfill. A destiny that others would kill to keep him from.