Kids Book Index
Lindsay Eagar
Avita belongs to the Family Fortuna circus, where she performs an act that astonishes audiences. She has a beak, razor teeth, and feathers, and her role in the circus is central to her life. Behind the scenes, the story asks whether being a circus performer is all that Avita is, following a family whose world is built around the show.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It ChangedDashka SlaterThis nonfiction account examines what happened after a private Instagram account posted racist memes targeting Black girls in Albany, California. The Korean American boy who created the account considered the girls his friends; other students learned of it, and its discovery affected the targets, the creator, followers, educators, parents, school, and wider community. The book traces how efforts by adults to repair the damage could make matters worse, amid the consequences of racism and online behavior.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Kin: Rooted in HopeCarole Boston WeatherfordThrough free verse, the author traces and shares a family tree shaped by enslavement and liberation. The book identifies Carole and Jeffery Boston Weatherford’s ancestors as among Maryland’s founders. Its family history is presented alongside black-and-white scratchwork illustrations, connecting the author’s search for forebears with the stories of their lives.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial AdoptionShannon GibneyShannon Gibney combines personal recollections with science fiction in a memoir about transracial adoption. Adopted as an infant by a white couple in Ann Arbor and renamed Shannon, she later seeks information about her birth parents. The book recalls her childhood, teen years, and adulthood as the only Black child in her family. Alongside this life, a parallel version imagines Erin, the name given by her birth mother, growing up elsewhere; a wormhole occasionally connects the two timelines.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details