Kids Book Index
Kelsea Yu
Drawing on a mostly true premise, the book recounts Terry Bradshaw’s rise to sports fame. He became the first football quarterback to claim four Super Bowl victories, marking a landmark in his playing career. After football, Bradshaw built a second career as a widely known sports broadcaster. The account also presents hard work as important to achievement, using Bradshaw’s life as its example.
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SyncEllen HopkinsTwins Storm and Lake were separated by foster care and now lead very different lives. After juvenile detention, Storm tries to keep hold of stability. Lake and Parker flee strict foster parents, then face homelessness and exploitation as her placement falls apart. Storm and Lake narrate in alternating perspectives and in letters they never send, preserving memories of their close connection. This novel in verse addresses family separation, abuse, survival, identity, institutional failures, and the siblings’ efforts to find one another.Kids Favorites — 9th–12th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Strong Like YouT. L. SimpsonWalker Lauderdale continues hoping that his missing father is alive, despite classmates saying otherwise. He has not cried since his father disappeared, including after comments at football practice suggesting his father is dead. Walker believes his dad is somewhere in the Ozarks, traveling through the wilderness as he always has. The book follows Walker’s grief, hope, and uncertainty about his father’s disappearance.Kids Favorites — 9th–12th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Lie Until It’s TrueJessie WeaverAmanda Pruitt, a true-crime TikToker, spends a summer in Colorado investigating a murder that appears to have an obvious solution. She takes on the case as an effort to redeem herself. The novel frames its investigation as a haunting thriller and links amateur online true-crime activity with a murder inquiry. Jessie Weaver wrote Lie Until It’s True, published by Disney Publishing Group in 2024.Kids Favorites — 9th–12th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details