Kids Book Index
Huda Fahmy
A fictionalized memoir in graphic-novel form, this book follows Huda during her first year of high school after she moves to a new town. The transition leads her to reconsider who she is. The story centers the changes of starting school in an unfamiliar place and Huda’s effort to re-examine her identity.
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Sugar Town QueensMalla NunnFifteen-year-old Amandla lives in a South African shantytown after apartheid. She is biracial and has never met the relatives on her White mother’s side. On a difficult day for her mother, Amandla’s family tensions are already close at hand. With help from friends, she begins to uncover secrets and truths within her family. The story connects friendship with questions about family, identity, and life in post-apartheid South Africa.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Firekeeper’s DaughterAngeline BoulleyDaunis postpones college plans to remain in Sault Ste. Marie with her mother after her uncle’s death and as her grandmother’s health worsens. Though her white grandmother did not allow Daunis’s Ojibwe father to be named on her birth certificate, Daunis remains close to his family and involved in her Ojibwe community. After her friend Lily is killed by an estranged boyfriend addicted to meth, Daunis learns that Jamie, a new local hockey player, is an undercover FBI agent investigating a dangerous meth supply in the area.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Luck Of The TitanicStacey LeeValora and Jamie Luck are British-Chinese twins who work as acrobats and travel aboard the Titanic on its first voyage. Valora has a ticket for the ocean liner and a dream, but encounters exclusion at the gangway: she is told that Chinese people are not permitted to enter the United States. Determined to board the ship, Valora’s situation unfolds on the Titanic’s ill-fated maiden journey, alongside her twin and their shared British-Chinese identity.Ninth to Twelfth GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details