Kids Book Index
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
During 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.
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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
Seven Wonders of the Solar SystemDavid A. AguilarThis nonfiction book explores seven wonders of the Solar System, traveling from Earth toward Pluto and Charon at the edge of the Kuiper Belt. It presents a journey through space and time across both nearby and distant parts of the solar system. Written by David A. Aguilar, the book focuses on celestial places and the scale of the planetary neighborhood around Earth.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
No More No NameTim TingleBobby Byington, a Choctaw teenage basketball player, has long lived with his father’s alcoholism and anger. His family situation appears to be improving: his father has stopped drinking, his mother has returned home, and Bobby’s team is winning. When Bobby recognizes similar alcohol-related behavior in a white teammate’s father, he and his coach provide important support to the troubled boy.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details