Kids Book Index
Michael Ruhlman
A medical emergency disrupts sixteen-year-old Theo’s high school athletic career and leaves him devastated. While recovering from his injury, he meets Julia, who introduces him to restaurants and gourmet cooking. Theo becomes a prep cook in a high-end French restaurant, where he works as both his leg and heart heal. The kitchen becomes an unexpected destination for a jock using crutches.
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Bridge Across the SkyFreeman NgIn 1924, a Chinese boy named Tai Go waits for an entrance interview that will decide whether he can enter the United States. Under the Chinese Exclusion Act, he and other immigrants are confined at Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay while officials assess their claims. Tai Go endures confinement, medical examinations, and questioning intended to make detainees fail. During this wait, he finds encouragement in poems carved into barracks walls, fellow detainees prepared to defend their rights, and new friendships.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Whose Right Is It? The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for EqualityHana BajramovicThis nonfiction examination considers the Fourteenth Amendment’s treatment of citizenship, legal due process, and equal protection. It explains the amendment’s origins and wording, then considers its role in Supreme Court cases. The book connects changing interpretations of the amendment to racial discrimination, gender equity, immigrant rights, and LGBTQ rights. Its three sections address the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and people, with photographs, footnotes, and additional resources.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
In RepairA. L. GraziadeiNathaniel Conti has a history of trauma and troublemaking and hopes college will let him leave that past behind. When he is by himself, he does not feel real, and he has developed a reputation for doing almost anything to draw attention. As a college freshman, he faces a reckless moment at a party: jumping from a window. The novel centers on Nathaniel’s past, his need to be seen, and his attempt to start over.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details