Kids Book Index
Alex Wheatle
Fourteen-year-old Moa works on a Jamaican sugarcane plantation, where enslaved people face brutal treatment from overseers. He joins the fight for their freedom during a rebellion against British rule in 1760. The novel draws on the real Tacky’s Rebellion, described as the most significant rebellion by enslaved people in Jamaican history. Moa’s story places his struggle within the larger uprising.
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Together We Caught FireEva VLane Jamison has had feelings for a boy since childhood. Her father’s marriage changes those feelings into a forbidden attraction when the boy becomes her stepbrother. Lane has also built emotional defenses after witnessing her mother’s suicide thirteen years earlier. Her father’s new family arrangement tests those walls and complicates the longing she has carried for years. The novel examines Lane’s response to grief, family change, desire, and an attachment she believes she cannot pursue.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Three Things I Know Are TrueBetty CulleySeventeen-year-old Jonah accidentally shoots himself with his friend Clay’s father’s gun and is left with brain damage. His sister Liv struggles with the aftermath while advocating for Jonah. Written in free verse, the novel examines how the accident changes their lives and family. Liv must respond both to her brother’s injury and to the consequences of the gun accident around them.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Cemetery BoysAiden ThomasWith help from his cousin and best friend Maritza, a boy performs a ritual to summon and free the ghost of his murdered cousin. Instead, he calls up Julian Diaz, a schoolmate known for trouble. Julian does not intend to leave quietly, redirecting the search for the murdered cousin’s spirit. This urban fantasy by Aiden Thomas combines a ritual involving ghosts with a mystery surrounding a killing and an unexpected connection between the two boys.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details