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Kids > Raising Resilience Juvenile Book Recommendations


All kids are born with the capac­i­ty to become resilient — the abil­i­ty to han­dle life’s ups and downs- but they need help along the way. Check out our list of rec­om­mend­ed chap­ter books to help build resilience in ele­men­tary or mid­dle schoolers. 

Adrift by Tanya Guerrero

All Four Quar­ters of the Moon by Shirley Marr

All the Small Won­der­ful Things by Kate Foster

The Black Slide by J.W. Ocker

Each of Us a Uni­verse by Jeanne Zulick Fer­ruo­lo with Nden­go Gladys Mwilelo

Final­ly Seen by Kel­ly Yang

Ken­zie Kick­starts a Team by Kit Rosewater

Lines of Courage by Jen­nifer A. Nielsen

Liv­ing With Vio­la by Rose­na Fung

Lu by Jason Reynolds

The Moth Keep­er by Kay O’Neill

Ode to a Nobody by Car­o­line Brooks DuBois

Omar Ris­ing by Aisha Saeed

Roll With It by Jamie Sumner

A Rover’s Sto­ry by Jas­mine Warga

Shot Clock by Caron But­ler and Justin A. Reynolds

A Sky Full of Song by Susan Meyer

Spar­row Being Spar­row by Gail Donovan

World In Between: Based on a True Refugee Sto­ry by Kenan Tre­binče­vić and Susan Shapiro

See even more Rais­ing Resilience Juve­nile Book Rec­om­men­da­tions in our catalog.