Kids Book Index
Marie Arnold
Fourteen-year-old Ayo has been brought up to succeed her mother as the leader of a Harlem civil-rights organization. She would prefer the everyday life of an ordinary teenager, but her mother is shot by police. In the aftermath, Ayo must decide whether to take on the activist role that has been expected of her. Her choice places personal wishes alongside responsibility, community activism, and leadership.
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The Most Dazzling Girl in BerlinKip WilsonAfter leaving the orphanage when she turns 18, Hilde is alone in 1932 Berlin and has heard nothing from her girlfriend Gretchen for months. She finds work and a sense of refuge at Café Lila, a gay nightclub, where waitress and performer Rosa welcomes her into its community. Hilde is drawn to Rosa and struggles with stage fright as well as the fear of telling Rosa how she feels. Meanwhile, the growing power of the National Socialist Party, anti-Jewish hostility, and persecution of gay people increasingly endanger Rosa, her aunt, and the people around Café Lila.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Rust in the RootJustina IrelandIn a 1937 America divided by access to mystical arts, Laura Black leaves Pennsylvania for New York City hoping to gain a mage license and become a baker. With little money left, she accepts a government apprenticeship under Skylark of the Colored Auxiliary. Government policy favors industrial Mechomancy over nature-based Dynamism. Renamed Peregrine, Laura joins a mission to Ohio’s Deep Blight Zone, where destructive forces and white supremacists threaten the country’s fragile recovery.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Ironhead, or, Once a Young LadyJean-Claude van RijckeghemIn 1808 Ghent, eighteen-year-old Stance resists the narrow future expected of her as a woman. When a wealthy man offers to finance her father’s cannon design in return for marrying her, she initially submits, then follows the example of a woman living as a man and escapes into Napoleon’s army. Others believe Stance is male as she becomes a soldier. Her younger brother Pier, who hopes to continue school, travels with a dubious associate to find her and deliver the cannon plans to Napoleon.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details