Kids Book Index
Andrea Curtis
Seventeen-year-old Christina McBurney leaves home after her twin brother Jonathan dies of consumption. Refusing the futures others expect for her, she boards the Asia, a steamship carrying people and freight on the Great Lakes, intending to travel to Sault Ste. Marie. A violent storm rises on Georgian Bay, and the overloaded vessel begins to sink. Christina and Daniel then struggle to survive the disaster at sea.
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Learning to BreatheJanice Lynn MatherSixteen-year-old Black Bahamian Indy has largely been raised by her grandmother because her mother’s drug addiction has made home unstable. After moving to Nassau to live with an aunt, Indy is raped by her cousin Gary and conceals the resulting pregnancy because she fears being expelled from the home. Isolated and struggling at school, she finds a yoga retreat where local staff offer kindness and support. The novel follows Indy as she faces trauma, seeks safety and belonging, and begins to accept help.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
What I Leave BehindAlison McGheeAfter his father’s suicide, Will begins walking and continues for three years. He avoids places connected to his grief, including a blessing shop, the Fourth Street bridge where his father died, and the home of his childhood friend Playa. Will also quietly helps people around him while trying to move beyond his misery. The book is structured as one hundred chapters, each containing one hundred words.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Blood Water PaintJoy McCulloughSet in early seventeenth-century Rome, this novel in verse follows seventeen-year-old painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Although she has surpassed her father’s artistic skill, she receives no credit because she is a woman. After being raped by a perspective tutor hired by her father, Artemisia publicly accuses him and endures an emotionally and physically brutal legal process. Stories of the biblical figures Susanna and Judith, told in prose between the verse sections, give her strength as she continues to claim her work as a painter.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details