Kids Book Index
Kali Wallace
Eight years after her sister Patience dies, Sorrow returns to her family’s remote apple orchard. She hopes to recover what she remembers about the night of the death and learn what truly occurred. Back at her ancestral home, Sorrow encounters long-concealed family secrets and a legacy tied to the orchard. The story combines questions of memory, sisterhood, home, and a mysterious family past.
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Spindle FireLexa HillyerThis reimagining of Sleeping Beauty concerns two half sisters who are cursed by faeries. They struggle to recognize their own strengths while also discovering love for one another. The book places their conflict within faerie legends and a battle against the effects of the curse. Lexa Hillyer’s novel combines the sisters’ relationship with a fantasy version of a familiar fairy-tale premise.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
TravelerL. E. DeLanoJessa has spent her life imagining other worlds and writing stories more compelling to her than her own life. Then Finn, a character she created, appears and invites her out. Jessa learns that she and Finn are Travelers who can move between realities. The stories she imagined are alternate versions of her life, but someone wants her dead in one of those realms. Dreams, fiction, friendship, family, and love intersect across multiple realities.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Most Dangerous ThingLeanne LiebermanSixteen-year-old Sydney is living with depression and avoids talking about, or even thinking about, sex. She believes she will never have a boyfriend. When a classmate shows interest in her, Sydney has to face the anxiety she feels alongside her own desires. The story centers on her effort to reconcile those conflicting feelings while navigating a possible relationship.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details