Kids Book Index
Caroline Huntoon
Twelve-year-old Veronica comes out as nonbinary and wants to be known as Mars. Mars is a talented figure skater, but cannot find a competition they can enter. Their experience on and off the ice involves discovering who they are, while family and friends offer help. The book connects Mars’s identity with their love of figure skating and the challenge of finding a place in the sport.
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Shira & Esther’s Double Dream DebutAnna E. JordanShira wants to perform onstage, whereas Esther hopes to study Torah. The two twelve-year-old look-alikes exchange places in order to pursue the ambitions each cannot otherwise follow. Their switch requires chutzpah and carries both girls into the other’s hoped-for life. A glossary and an author’s note supplement the novel. The book contrasts a theatrical aspiration with a commitment to religious study.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights MovementWillie Mae BrownSet in Selma, Alabama, this account looks at Willie Mae Brown’s childhood as the civil rights movement and the campaign for voting rights unfolded around her. It includes life within and beyond the Brown family home, alongside events connected with the 1965 march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Brown describes growing up Black in Selma and recalls attending church with her mother to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Something Close to MagicEmma MillsAurelie is a practical baker’s apprentice who values the stability of her work. She keeps her ambitions contained until a stranger gives her a set of Seeking stones. Aurelie is then recruited because of her Seeking abilities to locate Elias Allred. The task raises an unanswered question about what will happen if she succeeds, shifting her from the dependable routine she prefers into a search with uncertain consequences.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details