Kids Book Index
Audrey Coulthurst
Asra is a demigod and healer whose blood writing can dictate or alter the future. She conceals this dangerous power while living on a remote mountain and caring for people there, alongside Ina, the mortal girl she loves. When bandits endanger Ina’s village and the king does not help, Asra is betrayed into unleashing a dragon and must save her kingdom.
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Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created FrankensteinLita JudgeThis free-verse biography portrays Mary Shelley before and during the creation of Frankenstein. It presents her novel as shaped by experiences that came well before its famous origin story. By nineteen, Mary has been rejected by her family, is living publicly with a married man, and has endured the death of her newborn daughter. The book combines this account of loss, love, and upheaval with more than 300 full-page illustrations.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Big WaterAndrea CurtisSeventeen-year-old Christina McBurney leaves home after her twin brother Jonathan dies of consumption. Refusing the futures others expect for her, she boards the Asia, a steamship carrying people and freight on the Great Lakes, intending to travel to Sault Ste. Marie. A violent storm rises on Georgian Bay, and the overloaded vessel begins to sink. Christina and Daniel then struggle to survive the disaster at sea.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Isle of Blood and StoneMakiia Lucier, map by Leo HartasA mysterious map opens an eighteen-year-old case involving the disappearance of Lord Elias’s father and the kingdom’s young princes. Elias investigates what happened, uncovering the long-buried mystery tied to their vanishing. Earlier accounts describe the princes as kidnapped and murdered in a plot involving the rival kingdom of Mondrago. A black-and-white map accompanies this tale of a missing father, lost princes, and rival kingdoms.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details