Kids Book Index
Jordan Ifueko
Raised alone by The Lady, the often absent woman she knows as her mother, Tarisai longs for family. She is sent to Aritsar’s capital to compete with other children for a place on the Crown Prince’s Council of Eleven. Chosen members are connected through the Ray, a bond described as deeper than blood. Tarisai must contend with an oath to protect someone she was born to destroy.
This book appears on 3 reading lists across 1 edition from 3 organizations.
DisplacementKiku HughesIn this graphic novel with time-travel elements, teenage Kiku is repeatedly pulled from her contemporary life into the World War II imprisonment of Japanese Americans. Eventually stuck in the past, she lives near her young grandmother, Ernestina, and other imprisoned people. Kiku, who is Japanese and white, is frustrated by how little she has learned about this history and by her family’s silence around it. As she observes her grandmother’s family and makes friends, she confronts questions of memory, language, and family history.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Before the Ever AfterJacqueline WoodsonZJ remembers his father as a neighborhood hero and a professional football player admired by many fans. Then severe headaches and memory loss bring his father’s career to an end, leaving ZJ to cope with an unsettling change in their family. His friends Ollie, Darry, and Daniel support him through it. Written as a novel in verse, the book follows a son whose father eventually forgets his name. It considers how a family moves forward after the years when sports success and public attention shaped their lives.Nine to TwelveLexile Text Measure 780LATOS Book Level 4.5On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
RebelwingAndrea TangIn a near-future dystopia, teenage activists join a resistance against a totalitarian military-industrial complex. Their ally is a sentient mechanized dragon. One young person moves from a routine smuggling exchange to fleeing enforcers on the dragon’s wings, revealing the creature’s cybernetic nature. The book combines resistance, activism, advanced technology, and a future shaped by oppressive power, with the dragon becoming part of the group’s struggle against that system.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details