Kids Book Index
Janet McNally
Sylvie 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.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
Bone’s Gift (Ghosts of Ordinary Objects series)Angie SmibertIn a southern Virginia coal-mining town at the start of World War II, twelve-year-old Laurel, known as Bone, discovers her family’s Gift. By touching an object that mattered to someone, Bone senses its past and sees stories connected to it. These visions can hold happiness or pain, including a deer’s death, a beating, or joy associated with a fiddle. Bone is unsettled by this ability and must consider whether it is a gift, a curse, or both.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Five Feet ApartRachael Lippincott, with Mikki Daughtry, Tobias IaconisStella Grant has spent much of her life going in and out of the hospital because of her lungs. There, she meets another teenager with cystic fibrosis. They fall in love, but their medical conditions require them to keep at least five feet apart from one another. The distance between them shapes the possibility of their romance while both teens must stay apart to survive.Twelve to FourteenWord Count 61382On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Memory of Forgotten ThingsKat ZhangSophia Wallace, twelve, protects the few happy recollections she has of her mother, including a cake made for her tenth birthday. Her mother died when Sophia was six, but that is not how Sophia remembers her. The cake was made from scratch, with frosting and pink sugar roses. Sophia wonders whether her birth during a partial solar eclipse gave her access to alternate realities, and whether parallel universes can exist.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details