Kids Book Index
Ibi Zoboi
This novel in verse draws on Caribbean folklore and centers on fifteen-year-old Marisol, the daughter of a soucouyant. At each new moon, she sheds her skin as women in her family have done before her and becomes a fireball witch. To sustain herself, she must fly into the night and slowly take from the lives of others. The story addresses inherited magic and the cost of pursuing the life one longs for.
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Tall WaterSJ SinduNimmi, a seventeen-year-old with ties to both the United States and Sri Lanka, travels from South Dakota with her journalist father to Sri Lanka, which is affected by war. She wants to face the mother who left her sixteen years earlier. In this graphic novel, Nimmi’s search for her mother unfolds as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami strikes, bringing a major disaster into an already fraught family journey.Kids Favorites — 9th–12th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
This is How We RollRosiee ThorFriends gather for a tabletop fantasy game, guiding their party through a dangerous dungeon where dice can shape the next move. Beyond the imagined adventure, the players face questions that rolls cannot settle, including whom to trust, how to love, and how they understand themselves. One storyline explores gender identity through an oath-bound paladin, while another involves an in-game romance between best friends. The game becomes a space for new relationships and for connecting fictional worlds with everyday life.Teacher Favorites — 9th–12th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Song of the Lioness, Book 1: Alanna: A Graphic Novel AdaptationTamora Pierce; adapted by Vita Ayala, illustrated by Sam BeckThis graphic-novel adaptation introduces Alanna of Trebond, a noble girl in Tortall. Though women are barred from becoming knights, she wants to earn a shield. She travels to the capital posing as a boy and starts page training, the first stage of knighthood. Difficult work and harsh conditions test her, while her ability and determination help her make allies among nobles and people in the lower city.Kids Favorites — 9th–12th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details