Kids Book Index
Nadia Mikail
Seventeen-year-old Aisha has not seen her sister June for two years and does not know where she is. When a calamity is expected to end the world in nine months, Aisha and her mother set out to find June and address old hurts. Joined by Aisha's boyfriend, his parents, and a stray cat, they travel across Malaysia in a campervan, grappling with grief, reconciliation, and time running out.
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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass: The Graphic NovelMeg Medina, illustrated by Mel Valentine VargasThis graphic-novel edition adapts Meg Medina’s YA novel about school bullying, with art by Mel Valentine Vargas. The story begins at the start of sophomore year, when Piedad “Piddy” Sanchez is struggling to adjust to a new high school. It centers on Piddy’s experience during this transition and on bullying at school, presenting the earlier novel in graphic-novel form. Medina is credited as its author, and Vargas as adapter and illustrator.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Family/School/Community All Alone with YouAmelia Diane CoombsHigh school senior Eloise Deane is an isolated, standoffish girl who reluctantly volunteers with older people to improve her college application. The work brings her together with Austin, a consistently cheerful fellow volunteer, and Marianne, who is seventy-three. Although Eloise begins with little interest in the commitment or other people, the experience leads her toward friendship and possibly a romantic connection with Austin. It also places an unexpected intergenerational relationship at the centre of her senior year.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
At the Speed of LiesCindy L. OtisQuinn Calvet had expected an important year with her best friend Ximena, her sister Ava, and her social-media following on The Whine. Instead, Ximena gets a boyfriend, Ava devotes herself to studying and school clubs, and Quinn feels left behind because of her disability. As a high school junior with plans for college and beyond, she joins a club about missing children, hoping it might increase attention to her Instagram account.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details