Kids Book Index
Josh Sundquist
Will Porter, sixteen and blind since birth, begins at a new school where an awkward first day leaves several classmates upset. As he starts to settle in, he develops a crush on a quiet girl named Cecily. Will later has experimental surgery that restores his sight. The change has unforeseen effects on his relationships and on how he understands his own identity.
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Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia LewisJeannine AtkinsTold in free verse, this biographical novel traces the life of Edmonia Lewis, a Black Ojibwe orphan who attends an early college open to students of every race in 1859. She grows into a sculptor in the years after the Civil War. Lewis was half Native American and half African American, and the account acknowledges that much of her past remains uncertain because she said and wrote little about it.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Who’s That GirlBlair ThornburghSeventeen-year-old Nattie McCullough is a Latin student and member of her school’s gay-straight alliance. When Sebastian Delacroix, a singer she once had a crush on, returns to town with a hit song called “Natalie,” she wonders whether it is about her. Nattie searches for clues in the lyrics, Sebastian’s elusive texts, and their brief encounter the previous summer while public speculation about the song’s subject grows. Her first kiss with Sebastian lands her in the hospital.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Making Bombs for HitlerMarsha Forchuk SkrypuchDuring World War II, Lida, an ethnic Ukrainian girl, is captured alongside her sister and forced to aid the Nazi war effort in a brutal labor camp. She had believed she would be safe because she was not Jewish, even as neighbors marked with yellow stars were taken away. In the camp, Lida faces severe hardship and plans to sabotage the bombs she is compelled to help make.Twelve to FourteenLexile Text Measure 760LATOS Book Level 4.9On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details