Kids Book Index
Dan Gemeinhart
Twelve-year-old Mark has a dog named Beau, a best friend named Jessie, and a dream of climbing a mountain. He takes photographs and keeps a notebook of haiku poems. Mark is dying of cancer, so he sets out with Beau to climb the mountain as a final search for identity. The journey brings a boy, his dog, and the mountains into the same difficult undertaking.
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Orbiting JupiterGary D. SchmidtA Maine family begins fostering Joseph, a teenager who became a father at thirteen. Joseph has never met his daughter, Jupiter. The novel follows this family arrangement while focusing on Joseph’s separation from his child and on the meaning of family between two boys. It presents a household taking in a young father whose past and relationship to his daughter shape the situation they share.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
After the AshesSara K. JoinerAfter the Ashes is set on Java, a colony in the Dutch East Indies, in August 1883. Two teenagers on the island have sharply contrasting ideas about their futures and what they might become. One is thirteen-year-old Katrien Courtland, who wants to establish Darwin’s theory of natural selection. A volcanic eruption brings huge waves, and both teenagers attempt to live through the catastrophe.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Human Body: The Story of How We Protect, Repair, and Make Ourselves Stronger (Smithsonian: Invention & Impact series)HP NewquistThis book traces ways people have responded to injury and illness across many centuries. Its examples range from an artificial eye made 5,000 years ago to contemporary CAT scans. Drawings and historical photographs accompany this look at efforts to protect and repair the human body through changing medical knowledge and technology.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details