Kids Book Index
Will McCormack, Michael Govier, illustrated by Youngran Nho
Rose watches from above as her parents slowly break down under the pain of their loss. Her soul tries to help them reconnect. The story presents human connection as a response to unimaginable loss, following the emotional distance between Rose’s parents and Rose’s continuing effort to bring them back together.
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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
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil SandsKate Beaton, illustrated by Kate BeatonKate Beaton’s autobiographical comic recounts her time working in Alberta’s Athabasca oil sands. Originally from Atlantic Canada, she took the job to repay student loans. The book grew from a five-part webcomic she posted in 2014 and was published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2022. Its title refers to an incident in which hundreds of ducks landed in a toxic tailings pond and died.Teacher Favorites — 9th–12th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Mirror GirlsKelly McWilliamsTwin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood are secretly separated as infants after their parents are lynched for loving across the color line. At the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie becomes a young Black organizer in Harlem. Magnolia, who passes as white, is heir to a cotton plantation in rural Georgia and does not know her racial heritage. The town’s slave-holding past remains present through its secrets and ghosts.Teacher Favorites — 9th–12th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details