Kids Book Index
Kim Johnson, map by Mike Hall
In 1955, Calvin Greene, a Black teenager from Chicago, moves with his family to Pennsylvania, where he is passing. As he adjusts to a new school, he is forced to weigh his loyalties. The story follows a teen confronting troubling secrets in a racially divided town. Calvin’s move and difficult choices unfold against racial divisions and questions of identity.
This book appears on 3 reading lists across 1 edition from 3 organizations.
Kill Her TwiceStacey LeeIn 1930s Los Angeles, sisters Gemma and May Chow are trying to keep their father’s flower business going. When they find the body of Lulu, a Chinese American movie star who was once their classmate, it is in a remote stable rather than at her Beverly Hills home. Convinced that Lulu may have been murdered, the sisters face a police investigation that shows little urgency.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
On the Bright SideAnna SortinoWhen Ellie’s boarding school for Deaf students closes, she returns to her hometown of Cincinnati to finish high school. A hearing-aid and cochlear-implant user who is most comfortable with sign language, Ellie faces skeptical classmates, an interpreter who does not always convey her thoughts accurately, and parents who have never learned to sign. Jackson, a senior assigned to show her around, is dealing with unexplained health problems that have ended his soccer season. As they grow closer, Jackson is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure HL730LATOS Book Level 4.7On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry (Sunderworld series)Ransom RiggsLeopold begins seeing strange visions connected to a fantasy television program his mother recorded on a VCR before she died five years earlier. Those visions draw him out of his own world and into a parallel one. The story joins a connection to his mother’s past with the unsettling pull of a fantasy world that may be more than television.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details