Kids Book Index
Mercedes Lackey
After the Diseray, terrifying creatures arrive, including beings drawn from mythologies around the world and others unlike anything people have imagined. Joy is a skilled Hunter who fights deadly Othersider creatures every day. Her challenges extend beyond those encounters to political conflict within an all-powerful government. The novel combines her dangerous work with the pressures of those government battles.
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A Year without MomDasha Tolstikova, illustrated by Dasha TolstikovaSet in early-1990s Moscow, this graphic novel follows twelve-year-old Dasha after her mother leaves to study in America. Dasha stays with her grandparents while political change unfolds around her, and she faces family life, friendships, and school without her mother. As she begins to find her footing, she learns that she is expected to join her mother in America, far from the people and place she loves. The book is illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings using a gray wash.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Honor GirlMaggie Thrash, illustrated by Maggie ThrashHonor Girl is a graphic-novel memoir by Maggie Thrash, who wrote and illustrated the book. First published by Candlewick Press in 2015, it was Thrash’s debut. The available description characterizes the memoir as romantic and painful, while also emphasizing its candid tone and humor. Its graphic-novel form presents a personal memoir that brings together romance, difficult emotions, frankness, and comic moments.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two LivesCaitlin Alifirenka, Martin Ganda, with Liz WelchCaitlin, age twelve, sends a letter to Zimbabwe as part of a school assignment. Martin receives her message, beginning a pen-pal correspondence between them. Their exchange develops into a close friendship that alters both of their lives. Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda tell this account with Liz Welch. The book was published by Whitman, Albert & Company in March 2016.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details