Kids Book Index
Crystal Marie Fleming
From surviving a plane crash in the jungle to striking against climate change, you won’t believe the incredible stories of the challenges these brave kids from around the world have overcome!Rise Up: Ordinary Kids in Extraordinary Stories features 29 tales of amazing young girls and boys who have achieved the unimaginable.
Glory: Magical Visions of Black BeautyKahran, Regis BethencourtFrom Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, the dynamite husband and wife duo behind CreativeSoul Photography, comes GLORY , a photography book that shatters the conventional standards of beauty for Black children.Ninth to Twelfth GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
When We Make ItElisabet VelasquezElisabet Velasquez brings it all. . . . Together with her older sister, Estrella, she navigates the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee MemoirKao Kalia YangBack in the 1980s, Minnesota's University Avenue was barely clinging to life. Lined with church thrift stores, boarded windows, and prostitutes leaning against streetlights, the sidewalks were thick with bloody, discarded needles.Ninth to Twelfth GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details