Kids Book Index
Walter Dean Myers
A teenage filmmaker who has been arrested for murder recounts his experience in this graphic adaptation of Walter Dean Myers’s 1999 book. Steve is held in Cell Block D at the Manhattan Detention Center. He imagines shaping the events into a film about his life and this detention experience. The retelling uses black-and-white drawings to present his account.
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Half a Creature from the Sea: A Life in StoriesDavid AlmondDavid Almond pairs short fiction with memories of his childhood in Felling-on-Tyne, an English working-class town, during the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the stories draw from autobiographical material and return to subjects found in his novels, including religion, art, friendship, and working-class life. Their world is rooted in familiar streets, fields, beaches, and community, while also allowing imagined figures and ghosts to enter. The collection moves between lived experience and invention, treating both as part of storytelling.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Five Stages of Andrew BrawleyShaun David HutchinsonAndrew lives in a hospital, where he hides from a past marked by loss. He finds hope by drawing in the hospital’s shadows, but his isolation shifts when a boy injured in an attack by bigots is admitted. Andrew and the newly arrived patient face the possibility of helping one another while confronting grief, recovery, and the painful events that brought them there. The book includes occasional black-and-white illustrations.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam WarSteve SheinkinThis account connects the Vietnam War’s history with Daniel Ellsberg’s changing views of U.S. involvement. A veteran with experience at the Pentagon and the State Department in Vietnam, Ellsberg learns how much information has been withheld from the public. After gaining access to the Pentagon Papers, he copies the secret history of the war and seeks a way to make it public.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details