Kids Book Index
Laura Amy Schlitz
Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart and her hope out into her diary — because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of: a woman with a future.
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam WarSteve SheinkinIt was the height of the Cold War, and the government would do anything to stop the spread of communism―with or without the consent of the American people.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Cuckoo SongFrances HardingeHer memories are muddled, her sister despises her, and when she brushes her hair, out come crumbled fragments of leaves. Or did her accident trigger a nightmarish chain of events?Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Lightning QueenLaura ResauNothing exciting happens on the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico in the 1950s. There's no electricity, no plumbing, no cars, just day after day of pasturing goats.Older ReadersOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details