Kids Book Index
Lance Rubin
Denton wakes on the day marked as his deathdate and has made many plans. His funeral arrangements then begin to unravel wildly. The book spends the final hours of a teenager’s life on his search for love, meaning, and answers, while he may also find a way to continue living. Its premise places Denton’s preparations and a disrupted funeral on the same extraordinary day.
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Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the HolocaustMichael Gruenbaum, with Todd Hasak-‐LowyMichael Gruenbaum’s memoir recalls his life in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1939 Nazi invasion, which radically changes that life. The account is remembered and retold with Todd Hasak-Lowy. It includes documents as well as a brief bibliography. Published as Somewhere There Is Still a Sun, the book presents a personal record shaped by the invasion and its aftermath.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Orbiting JupiterGary D. SchmidtA Maine family begins fostering Joseph, a teenager who became a father at thirteen. Joseph has never met his daughter, Jupiter. The novel follows this family arrangement while focusing on Joseph’s separation from his child and on the meaning of family between two boys. It presents a household taking in a young father whose past and relationship to his daughter shape the situation they share.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Diary of a Waitress: The Not-‐So-‐Glamorous Life of a Harvey GirlCarolyn MeyerIn 1926, many Americans traveled across the United States by train to visit the West. Kitty loses her chance to attend college after her father’s business fails. She leaves home to work as a Harvey Girl, but journalism remains her larger ambition. The novel places a young working girl’s coming of age within the American West and the era’s rail travel.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details