Kids Book Index
Renee Beauregard Lute
Tacoma’s father is depressed after a treasured memento is taken from the wall of the truck-stop diner their family runs. Determined to retrieve it, Tacoma sets out on a search that brings her into unusual adventures. Along the way, she meets two new friends. The story combines a stolen photograph, a family diner, and Tacoma’s effort to bring some light to a difficult day.
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The Luminous Life of Lucy LandryAnna Rose Johnson, map by Emily Faith JohnsonIn 1912, eleven-year-old Lucy Landry loses her guardian shortly after her father dies in a shipwreck. An Ojibwe family living in a lighthouse on a tiny Lake Superior island offers to foster Lucy, who is Ojibwe and French American and afraid of water. The Martin children resent her arrival, while Lucy tries so hard to help that she sometimes makes mistakes. She copes by inventing personas and stories about her father. Lucy is especially focused on his tale of a message in a bottle about a ruby necklace lost in a capsized boat.Twelve to FourteenWord Count 49286On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and SurvivalEstelle Nadel, with Sammy Savos, Bethany StroutThe Girl Who Sang is a graphic memoir about Enia, a young Jewish girl trying to survive after Nazi forces enter Poland in 1939. She and her extended family flee, and neighboring people help Enia and two of her brothers stay alive. The surviving siblings later move to the United States. The memoir portrays the family’s flight, the assistance they receive, and Enia’s experience of survival under Nazi occupation.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
DragonfruitMakiia LucierAs a child, Hanalei and Princess Oliana are poisoned. Hanalei’s father saves her by wishing on a seadragon’s egg, but the wish brings exile and his death. Now orphaned, Hanalei helps protect seadragons from people who hunt their eggs, known as dragonfruit. Captured by a dragoner, she escapes near Tamarind and returns to the queen and Prince Sam, her childhood friend. Sam seeks an egg to heal his comatose mother, while Hanalei warns him that wishes on dragon eggs always demand a price.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details