Kids Book Index
Mark Crilley, illustrated by Mark Crilley
Paul is an ill-tempered teenager who reluctantly travels to Taiwan. While there, he sets out to find a new video game, but drops his phone into a puddle and becomes lost. The book follows this frustrating quest as Paul tries to manage a place he did not want to visit without the phone he relies on. The artwork combines pencil and watercolor.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
Law and Justice How to Be a (Young) AntiracistIbram X. Kendi, Nic StoneNic Stone adapts Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist through second-person narration. The book is presented for middle- and high-school students and includes endnotes. Its bibliographic record lists a January 31, 2023 release from Penguin Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House. The adaptation addresses antiracism through the framework of Kendi’s earlier work.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Dear MothmanRobin GowAfter his best friend Lewis dies in a car accident, Noah loses the person who knew that both of them were trans. Autistic and isolated, Noah decides to continue Lewis’s science-fair plan to prove that Mothman exists. He begins by writing letters to the legendary creature and leaves the notebook near his yard. Each morning, he finds signs that someone has read them. Told in verse, Noah’s search joins grief, loneliness, mystery, and an emerging sense of belonging.Twelve to FourteenLexile Text Measure 701LATOS Book Level 4.5On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Wild BirdDiane ZahlerAfter surviving a plague, Rype is rescued by a ship's crew and begins a journey across Europe. She travels from Norway toward England in search of safety during the fourteenth century. Along the way, Rype encounters troubadours, escapes violence, and gradually recovers memories of her past. Her journey follows an abandoned girl navigating a dangerous historical landscape shaped by disease, travel, and uncertainty.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details