Kids Book Index
Joy Hakim
Trace the history of life science in the first of a four-part MITeen series by mega-best-selling author Joy Hakim, who brought us The History of US.When did we start learning the scientific secrets of life?
Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi EuropeSteve SheinkinFrom three-time National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust—one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape.It is 1944.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
For LambLesa Cline-RansomeAn interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South.For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti, and the End of the American DreamJohn Florio, Ouisie ShapiroIn post-World War I Boston, amid anti-immigrant hostility and fears of communism, two Italian self- proclaimed anarchists were wrongfully convicted and executed for murder, raising protests throughout the world.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details