Kids Book Index
Kathleen Glasgow
Seventeen-year-old Charlotte Davis is in rehabilitation for self-harm after being found outside a hospital, bleeding and wrapped in a sheet. She carries grief over her father, her mother’s inability to give more, and the loss of her best friend. Charlotte has used broken glass and new scars to numb sorrow, but the pain remains. Her struggle is about surviving trauma and trying to return from a dangerous edge.
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The Forbidden OrchidSharon Biggs WallerIn the late nineteenth century, Elodie Buchanan leaves England for China in search of a rare orchid. The eldest of ten sisters, she is determined to find the plant in order to save both her father and her family. Her journey takes her far from her small English market town on an urgent quest centered on the orchid’s value to those she loves.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Cure for the Common UniverseChristian McKay HeidickerJaxon meets Serena, a girl who laughs at his jokes and agrees to go out with him, on the day his father sends him to video-game rehabilitation. To be released in time for their date, Jaxon must earn one million therapy points within a week. The stay also confronts him with a larger question: who he is away from games and in everyday life. His goal of leaving the program becomes tied to a personal reckoning.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Girl in the Blue CoatMonica HesseIn Amsterdam in 1943, Hanneke obtains and delivers black-market goods for customers. She conceals this illegal work from her worried parents and regards it as a small form of resistance. At the same time, she mourns her boyfriend, who died on Dutch front lines after the German invasion. Her daily life is shaped by secrecy, loss, and wartime survival.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details