Kids Book Index
Louisa Onomé
After her parents go on the run, Summer is placed with a cousin she barely knows. The Nigerian Canadian teenager feels abandoned by family and community and spirals downward. In her cousin's care, she must learn to trust, open up, and ask allies for help. The book follows Summer as she confronts the barriers that keep her isolated while her family situation has abruptly changed.
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The Other Pandemic: An AIDS MemoirLynn CurleeIn this photo-illustrated memoir, Lynn Curlee recalls childhood and young adulthood before moving to New York City in the early 1970s. He describes finding friends, community, love, and an artistic career as a young gay man. The book follows the growing alarm around HIV/AIDS, the deaths of people in his circle and wider community, and the fear, grief, anger, public ignorance, and government inaction experienced by gay and LGBTQ communities during the epidemic.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
At the Speed of LiesCindy L. OtisQuinn Calvet had expected an important year with her best friend Ximena, her sister Ava, and her social-media following on The Whine. Instead, Ximena gets a boyfriend, Ava devotes herself to studying and school clubs, and Quinn feels left behind because of her disability. As a high school junior with plans for college and beyond, she joins a club about missing children, hoping it might increase attention to her Instagram account.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Minus-One ClubKekla MagoonFifteen-year-old Kermit Sanders is grieving the recent death of his sister. He is invited into a secret high school support group for students who have lost someone. Each member's life has been disrupted by tragedy, and the group must find ways to live with bereavement. Kermit's experience of grief, and the question of how the other teens handle theirs, shape this contemporary novel.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details