Kids Book Index
Amelia Diane Coombs
Hacks gets a romantic twist in the vein of Jenn Bennett in this “simmering” (Publishers Weekly) novel about a standoffish teen girl whose loner status gets challenged by a dynamic elderly woman and a perpetually cheerful boy.Eloise Deane is the worst and doesn’t care who knows it.
Kin: Rooted in HopeCarole Boston WeatherfordEvery last one, with a mind of their own and a story that ain’t yet been told. Carole and Jeffery Boston Weatherford’s ancestors are among the founders of Maryland.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
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnamwritten and illustrated by Thien PhamIt's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam.After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details