Award Winners & Critically Acclaimed

Winner of the Newbery Medal

Winner of the Newbery Medal! Acclaimed author Erin Entrada Kelly’s award-winning and bestselling novel for middle grade readers is a funny and poignant neighborhood story about unexpected friendships. Told from four intertwining points of view—two boys and two girls—the novel celebrates bravery, being different, and finding your inner bayani (hero). The Washington Post called it, “A charming, intriguingly plotted novel.” A New York Times bestseller!

Get Hello, Universe (Paperback) by Erin Entrada Kelly and other intermediate books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Despite growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and though her bullying seems isolated at first, it quickly escalates. Toby, a reclusive World War I veteran, soon becomes the target of Betty’s attacks. While others see Toby’s strangeness, Annabelle knows only kindness. And as tensions mount in their small community, Annabelle must find the courage to stand as a lone voice for justice.

Get Wolf Hollow (Paperback) by Lauren Wolk and other intermediate books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

The 10th anniversary edition of The Graveyard Book includes a foreword by Margaret Atwood as well as sketches from the illustrator, handwritten drafts, and Neil Gaiman’s Newbery acceptance speech. This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 6, especially during homeschooling. It’s a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom.

Get The Graveyard Book (Paperback) by Neil Gaiman and other young adult books online at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

A dangerous forbidden romance rocks a Texan oil town in 1937, when segregation was a matter of life and death.

A Printz Honor Book

New London, TX. 1937. Naomi Vargas is Mexican American. Wash Fuller is Black. These teens know the town’s divisive racism better than anyone. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive.

Get Out of Darkness (Paperback) by Ashley Hope Pérez and other young adult books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

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"Uptown . . .
Harlem, New York.
Chicken and waffles.
Jazz.
Home."

Uptown is a rich mix of flavors, colors, sounds, and cultures that come together to create a vibrant community like no other in the world. Seen through the eyes of one little boy who lives there, the details of life in Harlem are as joyous as a game of basketball on a summer's afternoon and as personal as a trip to the barbershop where old-timers reminisce.

Get Uptown (Paperback) by Bryan Collier and other early readers books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

In this Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner, Pat McKissack brings us ten original spine-tingling tales inspired by African American history. Now available with brand-new cover art by Brian Pinkney!

In that special half-hour of twilight—the dark-thirty—there are stories to be told. Mesmerizing and breathtakingly original, these tales are inspired by African American history and range from the time of slavery to the civil rights era. 

Get The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (Paperback) by Patricia McKissack and other intermediate books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part.

In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle.

Get Gilead: A Novel (Hardcover) by Marilynne Robinson and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery.

Get The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Hardcover) by Brian Selznick and other young adult books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

A National Book Award Finalist

“A gentle, glowing wonder, full of love and understanding.” –The New York Times Book Review

It’s the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug’s best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear, learning how to put on makeup, and deciding which boys are cuter in their yearbook photos than in real life.

Get Too Bright to See (Hardcover) by Kyle Lukoff and other intermediate books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Snow Country, perhaps the most of Yasunari Kawabata's classic Japanese novels, is a dazzling portrait of a country geisha, Komako, in a Japanese hot springs resort, as seen through the eyes of a wealthy dilettante, Shimamira. The two main characters, as well as Yoko, the pretty maid who comes between them, are searching for love, but their circumstances and their unrealistic hopes ensure they cannot find it and that only tragedy and deep despair for all three of them can ensure.

Get Snow Country (Paperback) by Yasunari Kawabata and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

BY THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2021

While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away.

As fate knots these young people together, as they live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away...

Get  Afterlives (Paperback) by Abdulrazak Gurnah and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal.

When glamorous Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, the lonely teenager travels to London for college. But nothing has prepared him for the biting cold and seething crowds of this hostile city. Struggling to find a foothold, and to understand the darkness at the heart of his family, he must face devastating truths about those closest to him--and about love, sex, and power. Evoking the immigrant experience with unsentimental precision and profound understanding, Gravel Heart is a powerfully affecting story of isolation, identity, belonging, and betrayal, and Abdulrazak Gurnah's most astonishing achievement.

Get Gravel Heart (Paperback) by Abdulrazak Gurnah and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Winner of the National Book Award

A National Bestseller

"Proof of Malinda Lo's skill at creating darkly romantic tales of love in the face of danger." — O: The Oprah Magazine

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible.

Get Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Paperback) by Malinda Lo and other young adult fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Kate DiCamillo's beloved, best-selling debut novel is now available in a paperback digest edition.

Opal spends all that sweet summer collecting stories about her new friends and thinking about her mother. But because of Winn-Dixie or perhaps because she has grown, Opal learns to let go, just a little, and that friendship—and forgiveness—can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm.

Get Because Of Winn-Dixie (Paperback) by Kate DiCamillo and other young adult books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

From the acclaimed author-artist Maurice Sendak comes a Caldecott Honor-winning tale of a fantastical dream world. This comic fantasy will delight readers of all ages with playful illustrations and an imaginative world only Sendak could create.

In the Night Kitchen is the classic story of Mickey's adventures in the bakers’ kitchen as they prepare our morning cake. "Milk in the batter! Milk in the batter! We bake cake and nothing’s the matter!" the bakers sing.

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The classic Caldecott Medal picture book about a neighborhood transformed by a delightful snow fall by legendary picture book duo, Alvin Tresselt & Roger Duvoisin.

All the wonder and delight a child feels in a snowfall is caught in the pages of this book—the frost ferns on the windowsill, the snow man in the yard and the mystery and magic of a new white world. Roger Duvoisin's pictures in soft blue half-tones with brilliant splashes of yellow and red emphasize the gaiety and humor as well as the poetic quality of the text.

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