Kids Book Index
Sarah Myer, illustrated by Sarah Myer
Sarah was adopted from South Korea as an infant by white parents and grows up in a rural place with few Asian neighbors. At school, other students bully and mock her. Her anger becomes difficult to contain, and she turns to art, anime, and manga for comfort. The book depicts the pressures surrounding her adoption, isolation, and school experience.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow SouthJaha Nailah AveryThrough ten interviews, African American elders describe their lives in the American South under Jim Crow. The book presents their oral histories alongside archival photographs and an appendix explaining people, places, events, and terms. These firsthand accounts focus on the experiences of Black people who grew up during the era of legally enforced racial segregation, preserving individual memories within a larger history of the South and its communities over time.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Give Me a SignAnna SortinoAnna Sortino’s debut novel introduces Lilah, seventeen, who is employed by a camp serving blind and Deaf children. The experience asks her to confront her own severe deafness, accept it more fully, and find a place within the Deaf community. It also portrays first love and Deaf pride while exploring the breadth and complexities of Deaf culture in its different dimensions as well.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Nigeria JonesIbi ZoboiSixteen-year-old Haitian American Nigeria Jones was raised in her father’s insular Black Power Movement and vegan homeschool commune. After her mother’s death, Nigeria begins pushing against its restrictions. Learning that her mother had supported her attending Philadelphia’s Quaker prep school, where she has a scholarship, Nigeria chooses to go. At school she encounters new perspectives, challenges her father’s authority, and forms relationships while reconsidering her parents’ history and her own identity.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure 829LATOS Book Level 5.3On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details