Kids Book Index
Lori Goldstein
Three female high school graduates travel to Silicon Valley for a highly competitive coding competition and startup incubator. Thousands of applicants seek places in the program. The three participants encounter sexism in the technology industry as they pursue success in the competition. Their friendship becomes a way to confront that discrimination while they work in the male-dominated world of technology.
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The Weight of the StarsK. AncrumRyann Bird dreams of traveling among the stars, though she sees no route to a career in space from her trailer-park home. She meets Alexandria, an isolated girl whose mother volunteered for a one-way mission to the edge of the solar system. Alexandria listens each night for radio contact from her mother, and Ryann helps her reach the roof to do so. Their silence becomes friendship and then a romantic relationship.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
What Makes UsRafi MittlefehldtEran Sharon, seventeen, remembers little about the father who left when he was a baby. Publicity around a student protest brings painful parts of his family’s past into view. With his Israeli-born mother, Eran faces difficult truths while considering how that past shapes his heritage, legacy, and sense of identity. The disclosure begins with a viral video. Rafi Mittlefehldt wrote the novel.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Secret SoldiersKeely HuttonDuring World War I, thirteen-year-old Thomas is a coal miner whose older brother has disappeared while serving in the English army. Hoping to find him, Thomas lies about his age and joins the Claykickers, a specialized tunnel-digging unit working beneath the Allied front. His search for his brother takes him into a dangerous underground wartime mission rather than onto an open battlefield.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure 910LATOS Book Level 5.8On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details