Kids Book Index
Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada
In 1980s South Korea, Sook goes to a winter camp, where an adventure gives her and others one night of freedom. The experience also offers a chance to preserve a book club that has been banned. Told as a semi-autobiographical work with expressive graphics, the story brings together friendship, books, and resistance to restrictions on what people may read.
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On the Bright SideAnna SortinoWhen Ellie’s boarding school for Deaf students closes, she returns to her hometown of Cincinnati to finish high school. A hearing-aid and cochlear-implant user who is most comfortable with sign language, Ellie faces skeptical classmates, an interpreter who does not always convey her thoughts accurately, and parents who have never learned to sign. Jackson, a senior assigned to show her around, is dealing with unexplained health problems that have ended his soccer season. As they grow closer, Jackson is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure HL730LATOS Book Level 4.7On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Second Chance of Darius LoganDavid F. WalkerAfter his parents are killed, Darius spends much of his life moving through foster homes, shelters, abandoned neighborhoods, and decaying buildings. At sixteen, he avoids a prison sentence by entering Second Chance, a prison-reform program. Instead of finding safety there, he discovers that someone inside the program intends to kill him. Darius must navigate the danger surrounding the chance he has been given.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Everything We Never HadRandy RibayFour generations of Filipino American sons tell their family’s story from the early twentieth century to the present. Francisco, Emil, Chris, and Enzo each confront questions of identity while their accounts trace legacy and strained family connections across decades. The novel follows the changing lives of one family through the perspectives of sons from different generations.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure 820LATOS Book Level 5.3On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details