Kids Book Index
Sarah Jude
In Rowan’s Glen, a remote Missouri Ozarks farming community, residents are warned against going out after dark. Ivy Templeton’s family has lived there for generations. The story returns to the unsolved killing of a former May Queen when the present May Queen disappears, linking an old crime to a new missing-person case in a close-knit community.
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Bluescreen (Mirador series)Dan WellsIn Los Angeles in 2050, people use djinnis: smart devices implanted in their heads that keep them connected online. Marisa Carneseca and her friends are skilled gamers and hackers in this highly connected city. They confront a dangerous virtual-reality drug that threatens society, asking whether their abilities can destroy it. The story combines a future networked world, hacking and gaming, and the risks posed by a drug delivered through virtual reality.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
This Is My Brain on BoysSarah StrohmeyerAddie Emerson prefers science and high grades to romance, and she does not believe love is real for her. She decides that love is a chemical state in the brain that can be artificially triggered. At her elite private school, Addie uses this idea in an attempt to make classmates fall in love and win the Athenian Award for Science, a college scholarship. Her experiment does not proceed as planned when she develops romantic feelings herself, challenging her theory and assumptions.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Memory of LightFrancisco X. StorkFollowing her mother’s death, tenth grader Victoria Cruz attempts suicide and wakes in a psychiatric ward at a Texas hospital. Her father objects to her hospitalization, while Victoria initially has no wish to keep living. During the following weeks, she meets other people in the ward, including Mona, Gabriel, E.M., and a doctor. The story follows Victoria’s time in psychiatric care and asks whether she can recover a desire to live.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details