Kids Book Index
Monica Hesse
In 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.
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The Darkest Corner of the WorldUrve TambergFifteen-year-old Madli faces the physical and emotional devastation of war after Soviet forces occupy Estonia during World War II. Caught between two dictatorships widely feared in the twentieth century, she and her family confront survival as their only option. Urve Tamberg’s debut novel depicts a young person and her family living through occupation, conflict, and its lasting emotional toll.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Whisper to MeNick LakeOver one summer on the New Jersey shore, Cassie finds a severed foot washed onto the beach, believed to belong to a victim of a murderer targeting local sex workers. The discovery triggers a voice in her head that threatens violence. Cassie also faces an overprotective father and an unspoken past trauma while attending outpatient therapy. When her friend Paris disappears, Cassie becomes convinced the killer took her and focuses on finding her, alongside a new romance.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Golden BoysSonya HartnettColt Jenson, 12, and his brother Bastian arrive in a working-class Australian neighborhood with their parents. Colt’s dentist father welcomes local children into their home, but Colt feels uneasy about the man’s physical friendliness and knows it has happened before. Nearby, Freya, the eldest of six, lives with a father whose drinking makes evenings tense and potentially dangerous. She confides in Mr. Jenson, while her brother Declan voices fears about his behavior.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details