Kids Book Index
Gail Jarrow
The science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts by soldiers, doctors, and nurses, is explored in this fascinating nonfiction book for young readers.The Civil War took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and left countless others with disabling wounds and chronic…
Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and Dazzling Life of the World’s First SuperstarCatherine ReefA tantalizing biography for teens on Sarah Bernhardt, the first international celebrity and one of the greatest actors of all time, who lived a highly unconventional, utterly fascinating life.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the KindertransportDeborah HopkinsonSibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany, risking everything to escape to safety on the Kindertransport.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Blood MoonLucy CuthewThis powerful, timely novel in verse exposes provocative truths about periods, sex, shame, and going viral for all the wrong reasons.After school one day, Frankie, a lover of physics and astronomy, has her first sexual experience with quiet and gorgeous Benjamin—and gets her period.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details