Kids Book Index
David Levithan
These nineteen stories explore love in several forms. The collection includes fiction, nonfiction, and a tale in verse, and grew from David Levithan’s practice of writing Valentine’s Day stories for friends. One entry concerns a resentful Quiz Bowl team member with an unreturned crush. Other entries return to A, the protagonist of Every Day, and to characters from Two Boys Kissing.
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1789: Twelve Authors Explore a Year of Rebellion, Revolution, and ChangeMarc Aronson, Susan Campbell BartolettiA collection of nonfiction pieces by twelve authors examines 1789, a year of upheaval and revolution. The book offers snapshots of decisive events on both sides of the Atlantic, connecting social unrest to the developing policies of early America. Its accounts consider rebellion, revolutionary change, human rights, and the idea of the rights of man. Together, the pieces place developments in America within a wider Atlantic history shaped by political conflict and changing ideas about rights.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Together We Caught FireEva VLane Jamison has had feelings for a boy since childhood. Her father’s marriage changes those feelings into a forbidden attraction when the boy becomes her stepbrother. Lane has also built emotional defenses after witnessing her mother’s suicide thirteen years earlier. Her father’s new family arrangement tests those walls and complicates the longing she has carried for years. The novel examines Lane’s response to grief, family change, desire, and an attachment she believes she cannot pursue.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
A Cloud of Outrageous BlueVesper Stamper, illustrated by Vesper StamperIn fourteenth-century England, sixteen-year-old Edie is sent to work at the priory of St. Christopher rather than enter its religious order. She becomes close to a postulant named Alice and is assigned to make ink in the scriptorium. Edie has kept secret that she perceives sounds as colors and that color affects her deeply; working with lapis lazuli leads to a trance and a vision. When plague reaches the priory and nearby town, Edie witnesses disease, suffering, and fanatical reactions while caring for those who are ill. Her relationship with Mason brings further conflict at the priory.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details