Kids Book Index
Adam Makos
Set in Cologne in 1944, this young readers edition brings together an American gunner, a German gunner, and a civilian whose lives meet violently. Their intersecting paths unfold during wartime. The book includes substantial back matter and draws on original sources, providing material connected to the events and people it presents. It is an adaptation for young adults.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
What the Fact?Seema YasminThis nonfiction discussion examines facts, truth, and how information is shared. It asks readers to consider how human behavior and big business can manipulate content and ideas. Using historical examples, visual sidebars, and highlighted vocabulary, it covers contagious information, bias and beliefs, journalism’s development, social media, debunking, and disagreement. It also explains the inverted-pyramid structure of news reporting and connects the history of headlines with contemporary hashtags and character limits.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret CodeRebecca E. F. BaroneThis true account follows the codebreakers, spies, and naval personnel who worked to decipher the Nazis’ Enigma machine during World War II. Allied forces intercepted messages that initially seemed meaningless, while people from Poland, France, and Britain contributed to solving the complex military codes. Their efforts to understand encrypted communications form the book’s central story, with back matter adding further context to this wartime intelligence work.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your PerceptionsA. R. Capetta, Wade RoushThis anthology contains ten speculative short stories by young-adult authors, each considering possible futures through technologies now emerging. The stories examine how technology may support, control, or extend social systems and relationships among humans, other species, and people in space. The collection includes a story presented in graphic form, with black-and-white artwork, alongside its prose explorations of new realities and changing connections.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details