Kids Book Index
Karen Rivers
Twelve-year-old Natalia Rose Baleine Gallagher moves again with her movie-star father because paparazzi are following them. Nat hopes their new home near a beach might offer a chance to see whales. She also hopes Harry, whom she has just met, will become a friend. Nat’s mother is far away, and Nat wishes her mother misses and loves her. Harry is transgender, and Nat is lonely after repeated moves.
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Wild BluesBeth KephartThirteen-year-old Lizzie spends the summer in the Adirondacks with her television-star uncle and her best friend, Matias. Matias is a Salvadoran artist with proportionate dwarfism. When two convicts escape from a nearby prison, the summer turns dangerous. A missing friend and the escaped convicts lead Lizzie on a journey through the Adirondack wilderness. Soft watercolor illustrations represent Matias’s paintings.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of AmericaGail JarrowThis nonfiction account examines the making and aftermath of Orson Welles’s 1938 radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds. The Mercury Theater transformed H. G. Wells’s novel about a Martian attack into a program set in New Jersey, using music, sound effects, and actors. Many listeners mistook the broadcast for live news, prompting calls to the studio and police stations. The book follows the program’s development, the night of its airing, and the public response afterward.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
A Sky Full of StarsLinda Williams JacksonIn 1955, Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Stillwater, Mississippi, confronts increasingly severe racial tension and tries to understand her place in the Civil Rights Movement. After Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are acquitted, she questions remaining in Mississippi. Her best friend Hallelujah believes peaceful protest can bring change, while Shorty favors responding to violence with violence. Rose must find her own path amid pervasive racism and fading hope.Twelve to FourteenLexile Text Measure 781LATOS Book Level 5On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details