Kids Book Index
Neal Shusterman
This collection returns to the world of the Arc of a Scythe series through stories set across its timeline. In this future, humanity has been protected from hunger, disease, and death, while Scythes serve as instruments of population control. The stories range from the period when the Thunderhead cared for humanity to the time when Scythe Goddard sought to overturn that world, introducing further tales and Scythes.
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All My RageSabaa TahirSalahudin and Noor have grown up as outcasts in Juniper, California, where they have been closer than best friends. A fight ruptures their bond. Sal then tries to keep the family motel running as his mother’s health declines and his grieving father turns to alcohol. Earlier, Sal’s parents, Misbah and Toufiq, had come to the United States after tragedy disrupted their arranged marriage and opened the Clouds’ Rest Inn Motel.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure HL590LATOS Book Level 4.2On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
At the End of EverythingMarieke NijkampAt Hope, teenagers labeled delinquent have been sent away and largely ignored by the rest of the world. Little hope is offered to the young people living there. When the guards begin behaving oddly, the isolated place becomes the setting for a troubling change whose cause is not yet clear.Librarian Favorites — 9th–12th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Harley Quinn: ReckoningRachael AllenHarleen Quinzel begins an internship in a psychology lab at Gotham University, hoping a scientific discovery will earn a full college scholarship and let her leave her abusive father. After seeing women mistreated across STEM departments and experiencing harassment herself, she shifts her priorities. In this origin story, Harleen comes to value revenge and justice over the academic future she had planned.Librarian Favorites — 9th–12th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details