But My Kid Used to Love to Read Inspo List

Amina, a Pakistani American Muslim, has entered middle school. She is happy hanging with her friend Soojin, a Korean American, but things have started changing, especially when Soojin starts hanging out with popular Emily. When Soojin says she might change her name to something more American, Amina starts to wonder if she will have to change to fit in, too. However, when her local mosque is vandalized, Amina realizes that it is better to be herself....

Follows the adventures of a group of neighborhood children who create costumes from cardboard and use their imagination in adventures with knights, robots, and monsters.

After escaping the Black Hook Gang in 1860 New York City, twelve-year-old twins Alexander and Cleopatra flee to New Orleans, become separated, and try to find each other in San Francisco, while being followed by pirates who think they hold the key to treasure.

A group of kids are excited to spend a fun night at a lock-in at Mr. Lemoncello's newly opened library. However, the event is quite literal--now they will have to band together to find a way out before it is too late.

While picking up milk for his children's cereal, a father is abducted by aliens and finds himself on a wild adventure through time and space.

When basketball player Castle Cranshaw--nicknamed Ghost--challenges an elite sprinter to a race and wins, he finds himself on the radar of an Olympic medalist track coach who wants to nurture his raw talent. But Ghost's anger and determination to outrun his past, could stand in the way of him making good use of his natural ability.

Cousins Otto and Sheed Alston aren't quite ready to return to school after summer break. Although they might wish for a little more time to be free of the daily grind of the classroom, they didn't mean to actually freeze time. Now they'll have to figure out how to put things back to normal.

When happy-go-lucky Narwhal meets a strange creature who turns out to be Jelly, a no-nonsense jellyfish, they soon become best friends even though they are very different. The new friends decide to discover the whole wide ocean together. Jelly learns what it means to have a not-so-serious friend, they form a "pod" with other narwhals and unique sea creatures, and, finally, they read the best book ever written, one without words or pictures.

Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.

Priyanka Das, an Indian girl living in America, has always wondered why her mother abandoned her home in India years ago, taking Priyanka with her, and still refuses to tell Pri anything about India or her father. One day, Pri finds one of her mother's pashminas in a forgotten suitcase, and, putting it on, finds herself transported to a place that very much resembles India--however, it may be another world altogether, and there is danger.