Kids Book Index
Dhonielle Clayton
Camellia Beauregard is a Belle in Orleans, a lavish world where beauty is treated as a precious commodity controlled by only a few people. The Belles are admired because they hold power over that commodity. Camellia learns unsettling secrets about her own abilities and the system surrounding them, then rises against it in an effort to change her world. The novel is part of a dystopian young adult series.
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Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition: An Up and Out CollectionJulia Kaye, illustrated by Julia KayeArtist Julia Kaye records the first months of her gender transition in a personal collection of black-and-white comic strips. Rather than keeping a conventional diary, Kaye uses art to reflect on her experiences. The account addresses the struggles and emotional pain she encountered while transitioning from male to female. Its comics document a period of change through Kaye’s own visual self-reflection and personal perspective.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Children of Blood and BoneTomi AdeyemiIn the kingdom of Orïsha, Zélie belongs to the maji, whose magic was suppressed after the killing of many magic practitioners, including her mother. Diviners such as Zélie cannot come into their powers. Amari, daughter of King Saran, flees after witnessing her father kill her friend Binta for touching a scroll that awakens magic. She brings the scroll to Zélie, who travels with Amari and her brother Tzain to restore the link between the maji and their gods. The fantasy draws on African cultures, geography, and Yoruba language.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure HL670LATOS Book Level 4.8On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Book of PearlTimothée de FombellePrince Ilian, who loves a fairy named Olia, is banished from a fairy-tale world into ours. In late-1930s France, a Jewish couple takes in the homeless young man outside their Paris shop, and he becomes Joshua Pearl. When officials question the death of the Pearls’ son, he assumes Joshua’s identity and later joins the French army. As memory and loss accumulate, Joshua seeks relics from his original world, hoping they can prove it exists and help him find his way back to Olia.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details