Kids Book Index
Elizabeth Santiago
Fourteen-year-old Taína just learned that she is a descendant of a long line of strong Taíno women, but will knowing this help her bring peace and justice to her family and community?Despite her name, Taína Perez doesn't know anything about her Taíno heritage, nor has she ever tried to learn.
Saints of the HouseholdAri TisonWinner of the Pura Belpré Award and Walter Dean Myers Award for Young Adult Literature!Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer--that will take your breath away.Max and Jay have always depended on one another…Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
When You Wish upon a LanternGloria ChaoThen Liya discovers her family’s wishing lantern store is struggling, and she decides to resume a tradition she had with her beloved late grandmother: secretly fulfilling the wishes people write on the lanterns they send into the sky.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Other Pandemic: An AIDS MemoirLynn CurleeA searing photo-illustrated historical memoir from the LGBTQIA+ frontlines of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s.Before COVID-19 made "pandemic" a household word in 2020, there was the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s and 1990s.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details