Kids Book Index
Heather Smith
Bun O’Keefe grows up almost alone in a house made unsafe and unsanitary by her mother’s compulsive hoarding. Her limited contact with the world beyond home leaves books and old VHS tapes, found among the things her mother brings back, shaping what she knows about life. When her mother forces her out, Bun finds shelter with young adults who have experienced trauma.
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining WomenKate MooreDuring World War I, hundreds of young women painted watch and clock dials with radium in factories. Their employers told them the luminous material was safe, yet the women became covered in glowing dust and later began to fall ill. This nonfiction account follows the poisoning that led to a major American scandal and a fight for workers’ rights. Their experience shaped medical, legal, and labor-relations history; photographs and back matter accompany the narrative.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
A List of CagesRobin RoeDuring his senior year, Adam Blake serves as an aide to the school psychologist. She asks him to find Julian, a freshman who repeatedly avoids her, and Adam recognizes him as the foster brother he has not seen in five years. Assigned to be Julian’s buddy, Adam learns that Julian is concealing a serious secret about his new guardian. Their reunion brings the two foster brothers back into each other’s lives.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure HL690LATOS Book Level 4.6On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Epic Crush of Genie LoF. C. YeeGenie Lo is a sixteen-year-old Chinese American living among ambitious students in a quiet Bay Area suburb. She excels at standardized tests and takes on bad guys, but larger questions interrupt her ordinary life: could she be the reincarnation of a weapon from mythology, and is Quentin the immortal Monkey King? The story follows Genie as those questions draw her into a fast-moving fantasy adventure shaped by Chinese mythological figures.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details