Kids Book Index
Anna Sortino
Anna Sortino’s debut novel introduces Lilah, seventeen, who is employed by a camp serving blind and Deaf children. The experience asks her to confront her own severe deafness, accept it more fully, and find a place within the Deaf community. It also portrays first love and Deaf pride while exploring the breadth and complexities of Deaf culture in its different dimensions as well.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti, and the End of the American DreamJohn Florio, Ouisie ShapiroSet in post-World War I Boston during anti-immigrant hostility and fears of communism, this account follows Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants who identified as anarchists. After an armed robbery in Massachusetts left two people dead, the pair were accused. They maintained their innocence through a contentious trial, but were convicted and executed for murder. Their case prompted protests around the world and is accompanied by archival photographs.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Warrior Girl UnearthedAngeline BoulleySixteen-year-old Perry Firekeeper-Birch spends the summer as an intern in a tribal museum, where she learns about NAGPRA and the failure to return Native ancestral remains and sacred items. Disturbed by what she sees at a nearby college, Perry takes impulsive action while local Indigenous women disappear. A trustee’s murder leads her to a devastating discovery involving ancestral remains, exposing further secrets hidden on the land.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure HL720LATOS Book Level 5.09On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Gone WolfAmber McBrideImogen, a Black girl, appears to live in two worlds and two times, though the nature of that experience remains uncertain. She is confined in a small room for a future purpose, and she seeks freedom and an identity beyond it. Solving the puzzle of her divided life may help her heal, while the question of human freedom hangs in the balance.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure 700LATOS Book Level 4.5On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details