Kids Book Index
Sara Zarr
Kyle Baker believes his family is happy, and his life includes a girlfriend and a close extended family. That certainty collapses when he discovers that his mother is having an affair. The novel follows the change in Kyle’s understanding of the people he loves as he confronts this revelation. His family relationships and sense of stability are altered by what he learns.
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Long Way Down: The Graphic NovelJason ReynoldsThis graphic-novel version follows a young teen after his older brother, Shawn, is shot. Faced with his brother’s killing, the teen wrestles with whether seeking revenge is the right response. The story presents this moral struggle through lyrical writing alongside ink-and-watercolor artwork. As grief and the pressure to avenge Shawn shape his decision, the book focuses on the painful question of what he should do next.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
BearmouthLiz HyderNewt has lived in Bearmouth’s coal mine since age four, in a world of hard labor, isolation, and brutal overseers where daylight is not seen. Newt accepts the conditions until Devlin, a newly arrived boy, begins to question them. His questions unfold amid rising tension and violence, prompt Newt to ask why, and set in motion events that challenge the harsh Bearmouth system and threaten the world Newt has known.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Hard WiredLen VlahosQuinn plays video games, spends time with friends, and has a crush on a girl named Shea. Then he learns that his whole life is an AI fabrication and that he is not a boy. The discovery raises questions about sentience, reality, and who has the right to control another being’s life. As Quinn’s familiar world breaks apart, the story examines what it means to be real when a person’s identity and memories have been created through artificial intelligence.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details