Kids Book Index
Shane Burcaw
Shane Burcaw describes how other people react to his outward appearance while he lives with a muscle-wasting disease. His account includes love, friendship, and activism, and photographs appear alongside the text. The book focuses on disability, relationships, and the responses he encounters from others in everyday life and public perceptions.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the WorldMalala Yousafzai, with Liz WelchMalala Yousafzai recounts her own experience of displacement and activism alongside the stories of eleven other girls who flee violence and build new lives. The book includes girls whose journeys involve family loss, war, interrupted schooling, travel to another country, and efforts to keep relatives safe. Together, these accounts focus on displacement and the many different paths taken after leaving home.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Grimoire NoirVera GreenteaFifteen-year-old Bucky Orson lives in Blackwell, where girls possess magic. His father is the town sheriff, and Bucky feels isolated after his best friend begins spending time with other friends. When Bucky’s younger sister is abducted because of her unusual power, he sets out to find her. His search draws him into an investigation of the small town and its hidden secrets.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure HL450LATOS Book Level 3.3On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Suggested ReadingDave ConnisAt the beginning of her senior year at a private high school, Clara Evans discovers that the principal has created a list of prohibited media. Books from the list are removed from the library and barred from school grounds, with punishment for students caught carrying them. In response, Clara starts an underground library at her school. The library changes the lives of many students as she challenges the restrictions.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details