Kids Book Index
Meagan Spooner
Yeva has grown up in the city's aristocracy but longs to hunt, remembering her father's former lodge and the bow in her hands. When her father loses his money, he moves Yeva and her sisters to the town's edge near a forest full of secrets. The novel reworks Beauty and the Beast alongside the Slavic Firebird tradition, with Yeva as its heroine.
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Calling My NameLiara TamaniTaja moves through the changes and challenges of growing up as she goes from middle school to high school. Her close-knit African American family remains part of that experience. The novel presents her development in a series of poetic prose vignettes, while also considering the struggle to determine where a person belongs and why that person matters in life.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Everything Beautiful Is Not RuinedDanielle Younge-UllmanIngrid wants to pursue acting, but first she must prove to her mother that she can manage its demands. Her mother, a famous opera singer, is coping with depression after losing her singing voice. Ingrid is sent to a demanding wilderness camp, where survival becomes the test she believes will show her mother she has the strength to follow her ambitions. The story links artistic dreams with family pressure and an extreme outdoor experience.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
I Am Alfonso JonesTony MedinaAlfonso Jones is preparing to play Hamlet in his school’s hip-hop version of Shakespeare’s play and wants to tell his friend Danetta how he feels. While shopping for his first suit, he is shot by an off-duty police officer who mistakes a clothes hanger for a gun. After his death, Alfonso is among ghosts riding a subway and watching the people left behind. The novel moves between this present and Alfonso’s earlier life, including his family’s experience with his father’s wrongful imprisonment and exoneration.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure GN640LATOS Book Level 4.2On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details