Kids Book Index
Kacen Callender
Felix is a Black, trans, queer seventeen-year-old who is being harassed by an anonymous bully. He believes the person responsible may be his main competitor for an art scholarship. His effort to get revenge brings consequences he does not expect, as well as love and self-discovery. Narrated by Felix, the novel follows his struggles with identity while he experiences falling in love for the first time.
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Being ToffeeSarah CrossanAllison runs away from an abusive father and, with nowhere else to stay, hides in the shed of a house she believes is empty. Marla, an older woman who lives there and has dementia, mistakes Allison for a friend from her past named Toffee. As Allison seeks safety, the two form a relationship marked by shelter, empathy, friendship, and the different ways each is trying to live with painful memories.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
We Are the WildcatsSiobhan VivianOver the twenty-four hours before the Wildcats’ first varsity field hockey game of the season, six team members tell the story from their own perspectives. The players come to see how their coach uses manipulation and intimidation to control them. As they face those tactics together, the high school team begins to organize a response and resist his authority. The novel centers the pressure within a competitive school sport and the girls’ decision to stand up to their coach.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Finding My VoiceMarie Myung-Ok Lee, foreword by Kat ChoKorean American Ellen Sung lives in a small Minnesota town and confronts several pressures at once: deciding about college, overt racism, and demanding parents. This edition reissues Marie Myung-Ok Lee's young-adult novel with a new foreword by Kat Cho. Ellen's experiences place family expectations beside the discrimination she encounters and the choices she must make about her future, creating a story centered on identity and finding her own voice.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details