Kids Book Index
Anita Jari Kharbanda
Lioness of Punjab recounts Sikh history through the voice of Mai Bhago, portrayed as a warrior-saint. Mai Bhago orders her warriors to make their stand where they are. She calls them strong and without fear, and says their role as Sikh warriors is to fight for justice. Anita Jari Kharbanda wrote this 204-page book, published by Yali Books in 2025.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret CodeRebecca E. F. BaroneThis true account follows the codebreakers, spies, and naval personnel who worked to decipher the Nazis’ Enigma machine during World War II. Allied forces intercepted messages that initially seemed meaningless, while people from Poland, France, and Britain contributed to solving the complex military codes. Their efforts to understand encrypted communications form the book’s central story, with back matter adding further context to this wartime intelligence work.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
My Nest of SilenceMatt Faulkner, illustrated by Matt FaulknerMy Nest of Silence is a 384-page book by Matt Faulkner, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2023. Mari and her family are required to live in a relocation center. This happens after a government decision judges Japanese Americans as not sufficiently American. The account concerns a family’s forced relocation under that government action.Ninth to Twelfth GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting AssimilationJulissa ArceJulissa Arce writes about assimilation imposed on a brown immigrant from Mexico after she arrived in San Antonio in 1994. She describes working to erase her accent so that English would not be recognized as her second language, and the complicated reaction when someone said she sounded like a white girl. The book examines language, identity, and the pressure to conform across cultural and racial lines.Ninth to Twelfth GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details