Books like Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd

When ten‑year‑old Opal arrives in Naomi, Florida, she discovers friendship, community, and the healing power of a big ugly dog named Winn‑Dixie during her first summer in town.

Ivan, a gorilla who has lived behind glass in a shopping‑mall circus for 27 years, learns new meaning for art and friendship when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives.

A nine‑year‑old girl named Ada escapes her abusive home amid World War II, joining her brother in London’s evacuation; she learns to ride a pony, reads, and finds a new family with Susan Smith while watching for German spies.

Mia Tang, a young motel‑dweller with a secret dream of becoming a writer, must navigate family, friendship, and cultural identity as she faces the challenges of a new school year.

Follow seven fifth-graders through a lively year at Snow Hill School as they navigate friendships, family, and the surprises a new teacher brings into their lives.

When the storm-ravaged town of Flora & Ulysses floods its streets, two siblings, Violet and her little brother, set out to tie up the town’s runaway squirrels before dawn. Their imaginative quest turns into an adventure that tests family bonds, courage, and the power of teamwork.

A middle‑grade story about Ally, a girl who struggles with dyslexia, and her journey to find acceptance and help at school.

At eleven, Calpurnia Tate explores Texas nature, learns about insects with her skeptical grandfather, and discovers what it means to grow up and be a girl in 1899.

A wounded train robbery in frontier Colorado leaves Abigail McKenzie nursing two men—gentle David and rough Jesse—so she faces a love she never expected and a choice no woman should ever have to make.

**What secrets does the Shadow Market hold?** The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters' world. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is a sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. And Jem is searching through the Shadow Markets, in many different cities over long years, for a relic from his past. Follow Jem and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market's dark dealings and festival, Anna Lightwood's doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild's great sin, and Tessa Gray as she is plunged into a world war. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland's soul finds safe harbor. In the Market is hidden a lost heir and a beloved ghost, and no one can save you once you have traded away your heart. Not even Brother Zachariah. This description comes from the publisher. *Ghosts of the Shadow Market* takes place in the Shadowhunter world, the first book of which is *City of Bones*.

A girl and boy from rival tribes have their love protected and immortalized when they are changed into a red flower and a hummingbird.

Ten‑year‑old Albie, feeling overlooked at school, learns to recognize his own talents with the help of a warm new nanny who inspires him to embrace his strengths.