Kids Book Index
Cory McCarthy
A Stonewall Honor BookAn achingly honest and frequently hilarious coming-of-age novel about an Arab American trans teen fighting to keep their head above water in a landlocked Midwestern town.Man o' wars are not jellyfish, and River McIntyre is not happy.
The Code Breaker - Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic CodeWalter Isaacson, Sarah DurandWalter Isaacson’s #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young readers!Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of the HeartChesilA Zainichi Korean teen comes of age in Japan in this groundbreaking debut novel about prejudice and diaspora.Seventeen-year-old Ginny Park is about to get expelled from high school—again.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
My Good Manwritten and illustrated by Eric GansworthBEST OF THE YEAR Kirkus• Boston GlobeA literary tour-de-force sure to turn the coming-of-age genre on its head from Printz honoree Eric Gansworth Brian, a 20-something reporter on the Niagara Cascade’s City Desk, is navigating life as the only Indigenous writer in the newsroom, being lumped into reporting on stereotypical stories that…Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details