Kids Book Index
Kali Wallace
One year after her death, seventeen-year-old Breezy Lin wakes in a shallow grave with no memory of who murdered her or why. A former high school senior, Breezy is now a revenant and struggles with what it means to be undead. Her story includes murder, revenge, and monsters, human and otherwise, at the edges of its world. As she searches for answers, Breezy confronts her changed existence.
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The May Queen MurdersSarah JudeIn Rowan’s Glen, a remote Missouri Ozarks farming community, residents are warned against going out after dark. Ivy Templeton’s family has lived there for generations. The story returns to the unsolved killing of a former May Queen when the present May Queen disappears, linking an old crime to a new missing-person case in a close-knit community.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Desert DarkSonja StoneSixteen-year-old Nadia Riley earns a place at Desert Mountain Academy, an elite government-funded boarding school in Arizona. Hoping to leave a difficult relationship behind, she expects a new start. Instead, she discovers that the school is a covert CIA program preparing high-achieving students for Black Ops work. While trying to keep up with training and gain her teammates’ trust, Nadia is caught up in reports of a double agent and must prove that she is not the person framing the danger.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) *Radioactive!: How Irène Curie & Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the WorldWinifred ConklingThis account examines the scientific research of Irène Curie and Lise Meitner and the role their discoveries played in understanding and using nuclear fission. In 1934, Curie and her husband, Frédéric Joliot, discovered artificial radioactivity. The book connects the work of two women physicists to scientific developments that led to the atomic bomb, using archival photographs and source material.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details