Kids Book Index
Elissa Brent Weissman
Twelve-year-old Imani wants her bat mitzvah gift to help her find her birth parents. She loves her Baltimore family and Jewish community, yet wonders about her origins as a Black girl surrounded largely by white people. After her great-grandmother Anna dies, Imani finds an old journal among Anna’s books. The diary becomes part of Imani’s search to understand identity, adoption, and family.
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The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill HitlerJohn Hendrix, illustrated by John HendrixThis graphic novel portrays pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer as he opposes Adolf Hitler. Troubled by the German church’s failure to respond to suffering, he establishes a separate church and challenges political and religious authorities. A member of the German Resistance, Bonhoeffer wrestles with faith as a plan to assassinate Hitler takes shape. The book includes an author’s note, research material, a selected biography, and notes.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Wild BluesBeth KephartThirteen-year-old Lizzie spends the summer in the Adirondacks with her television-star uncle and her best friend, Matias. Matias is a Salvadoran artist with proportionate dwarfism. When two convicts escape from a nearby prison, the summer turns dangerous. A missing friend and the escaped convicts lead Lizzie on a journey through the Adirondack wilderness. Soft watercolor illustrations represent Matias’s paintings.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Looking GlassJanet McNallySylvie Blake and her older sister Julia once gave a special name to their favorite fairy-tale book. Later, Julia disappears, and nobody knows whether she is in danger. The book’s central mystery grows from Sylvie’s relationship with her missing sister and their shared childhood reading. A familiar fairy-tale volume remains part of the sisters’ history as Sylvie faces Julia’s absence.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details