Kids Book Index
Wesley King
Sara wants to be normal, but she experiences panic attacks and selective mutism. She also has multiple diagnoses and questions whether she should continue hoping for normality. Her only friend is being abused by her father, leaving Sara to consider whether she can help save that friend. The book brings together Sara’s wish for normality, her mental-health struggles, and concern for a friend.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
Isaiah Dunn Is My HeroKelly J. BaptistAfter his father dies, ten-year-old Isaiah Dunn lives with his mother and younger sister Charlie in a motel, a situation he keeps from his best friend. His mother is grieving, drinking, and has lost her job. Isaiah finds his father’s notebooks, filled with poems and short stories that imagine Isaiah as a superhero, and begins writing poems himself. As he hopes to help his family find an apartment, Isaiah also forms a friendship with Angel, a classmate who once bullied him.Nine to TwelveLexile Text Measure 700LATOS Book Level 4.3On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
World of Glass: The Art of Dale ChihulyJan Greenberg, Sandra JordanThis book introduces glass artist Dale Chihuly’s life, working methods, and installations in museums and public spaces. As a young man, Chihuly searched for direction before experimenting with color and form in a weaving class, where he incorporated glass. Learning to blow glass led to a career in which he worked with teams of glass blowers to realize his ideas. The account explains his techniques and presents installations located in urban settings and the natural world, with color photographs throughout.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Seven Clues to HomeGae Polisner, Nora Raleigh BaskinOn her thirteenth birthday, Joy Fonseca faces the first anniversary of her best friend Lukas’s death. She is troubled by what she said to him the night before he died, and by the possibility that he never heard it. Lukas had left clues for their yearly birthday scavenger hunt, and Joy decides at last to open the first one. She follows the trail in hopes that the remaining clues are still there and that it may help her move forward.Nine to TwelveLexile Text Measure 810LATOS Book Level 5.2On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details