Kids Book Index
Chris McCoy
Only days before prom, Bennett achieves what he had hoped for: Sophie agrees to go with him. Their planned date is overturned when aliens abduct Sophie, turning Bennett’s long-awaited prom plan into a crisis. The story follows his attempt to rescue her amid an extraterrestrial journey, combining a prom-night romance with a far more alarming and unusual emergency.
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Black Dove, White RavenElizabeth WeinFoster siblings Emmy and Teo tell the story of their shared life from the 1920s into the early 1930s. After Teo’s mother dies in a plane crash, Emmy’s mother moves the children from the United States to Ethiopia, honoring a promise to Teo’s mother. There they encounter tensions involving Ethiopia, Italy, government change, and powerful landowners. When Teo’s Ethiopian father is revealed to have been enslaved, Teo is legally enslaved as well and is demanded for a mission before war begins.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
There Will Be LiesNick LakeSeventeen-year-old Shelby Jane Cooper lives alone with her mother, Shaylene, a court stenographer who is determined to keep Shelby safe. After Shelby is hit by a car, mother and daughter leave the hospital and begin a winding trip toward the Grand Canyon, fleeing dangers that only Shaylene understands. Shelby then uncovers a deeply unsettling secret that overturns what she believed about her life. Grim reality, folklore, and fantasy intersect in her story.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Rest of Us Just Live HerePatrick NessMikey, his sister Mel, and their friends Henna and Jared are nearing high-school graduation while facing uncertain futures and complicated family pressures. Mel has anorexia, while Mikey experiences severe anxiety and OCD; their mother wants the family to present a more ambitious public image. Henna may be taken to the Central African Republic for missionary work, and Jared worries about leaving his single-parent father. Meanwhile, the otherworldly is real: as local indie kids disappear, the cause is not ordinary but alien.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details