Kids Book Index
Kristin Dwyer
After her father dies, Atlas’s life begins to unravel: she leaves school and loses her job. Required community service sends her to work on wilderness trails in the Western Sierras, restoring them as part of a program. The experience offers Atlas a chance to remake her life while she contends with grief and the loss of a place that had mattered to her father.
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The Songbird and the Rambutan TreeLucille AbendanonSet in Batavia in the Dutch East Indies during 1942, this novel follows Emmy, who has stopped singing after a tragedy in her family. Her father wants to send her to a singing school in England as war nears, but Emmy wants to remain with her friend Bakti. When the Japanese army invades, her life is transformed and she is interned in Tjideng prison camp.Twelve to FourteenLexile Text Measure 690LATOS Book Level 4.4On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
What’s Eating Jackie Oh?Patricia ParkKorean American high school senior Jackie wants to become a chef, but struggles with her parents’ expectations. She finds comfort at her grandparents’ deli, where her connection to food grows. Jackie’s passion eventually leads her into a competitive television cooking show. The book includes recipes and follows her effort to balance a culinary dream with the expectations and traditions of her family.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Bard and the Book: How the First Folio Saved the Plays of William Shakespeare from OblivionAnn BausumThis history follows the survival of William Shakespeare’s plays after his death. It explains why stage plays were not routinely preserved in exact written form, then traces the difficult work of assembling and printing the First Folio seven years later. The account also considers Elizabethan theater, earlier quarto editions of some plays, and the mechanics of printing. Differences among copies of the First Folio reveal how demanding its production was.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details