Kids Book Index
R. Eric Thomas
Harrison and Linus are queer Black best friends facing one final day together before Linus moves away. They spend that day having adventures that prove transformative for both of them. Harrison also feels the pressure of standardized testing, college, adulthood, and an uncertain future. Their time together brings friendship, separation, and the approaching demands of growing up into the same short span of days.
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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
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of PlantsRobin Wall KimmererWritten by a botanist who is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, this book brings together Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and teachings drawn from plants. It addresses the endangered planet and presents sustainable practices described as proven. The volume includes limited-palette illustrations as well as a bibliography, notes, and an index. A reflection on a braid of sweetgrass also considers what is not one person’s to give or another’s to take.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Kurt Vonnegut: The Making of a WriterDan WakefieldThis biography presents Kurt Vonnegut as a celebrated yet complicated American author. It traces the making of a writer whose novels and short fiction include Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and Cat’s Cradle. Vonnegut often worked with science-fiction elements and humor. The book also incorporates his letters and ink sketches, as well as archival photographs, to build its portrait of his life and writing.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details