Kids Book Index
Elsie Chapman
After his mother dies in a car accident, Kaede Hirano lives with a grandfather who feels more like a stranger than family. The Japanese Canadian boy is sent to Japan for the summer to stay with his estranged father. He must write an essay about what home means. His search for belonging brings family relationships and questions of identity into focus.
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Orange for the SunsetsTina AthaideIn Entebbe, Asha and Yesofu are close friends. Asha is Indian and Yesofu is Ugandan, but these differences have not shaped their friendship, which includes after-school samosas and cricket games. When Idi Amin orders Indians to depart Uganda within ninety days, the two must confront the order’s effect on their relationship and on their sense of home. Back matter provides a timeline and resources.Twelve to FourteenLexile Text Measure 600LATOS Book Level 4.1On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Never Caught, The Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run AwayErica Armstrong Dunbar, Kathleen Van CleveIn 1796, Ona Judge was a 22-year-old enslaved servant of George and Martha Washington. She escaped from the president’s Philadelphia home and sought freedom in New Hampshire. This young readers edition recounts her flight from enslavement by the Washington family, then among the most powerful families in the United States. It places Judge’s escape within the history of slavery in early America.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
An Invisible ThreadLaura Schroff, Alex TresniowskiA young readers edition about a relationship that begins when a woman walking to work offers help to an eleven-year-old boy experiencing homelessness. Her decision starts a connection between them, and the account presents it as life-saving for both people. Archival photographs accompany the story, whose focus is the lasting effect of reaching out to someone in need.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details