Kids Book Index
Shannon Gibney
Gibney surrounds her stories with reproductions of her own adoption documents, letters, family photographs, interviews, medical records, and brief essays on the surreal absurdities of the adoptee experience.Strikingly honest and beautifully written, this speculative memoir explores the rarely depicted experience of transracial adoption first-hand, and offers an insightful look into the discovery…
Hopeless in HopeWanda John-Kehewin★ Among CCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens list, a starred selection of exceptional caliberWe live in a hopeless old house on an almost-deserted dead-end street in a middle-of-nowhere town named Hope.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Muzoon: A Syrian Refugee Speaks OutMuzoon Almellehan with Wendy PearlmanMuzoon was fourteen years old when her family made the wrenching decision to leave their home in Syria. Peaceful protests were met with shootings.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Infinity Particlewritten and illustrated by Wendy XuClementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details