Kids Book Index
Claire LaZebnik
With college approaching, Chloe worries that Ivy, her older autistic sister, will be alone. She thinks Ethan Fields, a boy from Ivy's special-needs class who loves movies, could be a good companion for Ivy. Because Ivy and Ethan do not feel ready to go out together unaccompanied, Chloe and Ethan's brother David join them. Chloe cannot simply avoid David as the four spend time together.
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Tash Hearts TolstoyKathryn OrmsbeeTash and her best friend produce a web series that becomes widely known online. The show is a contemporary version of Anna Karenina, the novel by Leo Tolstoy that Tash loves. As the series draws thousands of subscribers and attention through tweets and Tumblr images, Tash has to respond to its sudden visibility. The story follows the changes that arrive with online notoriety, alongside Tash’s creative work and the friendship at the heart of the production.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
All the Crooked SaintsMaggie StiefvaterIn 1962, pilgrims travel to a Colorado desert town in search of miracles from a Mexican American family of mystics. The Soria family can perform unusual miracles, though these miracles do not always bring the results people expect. At the center are three cousins: Beatriz, who has no feelings; Daniel, who works miracles for others but not himself; and Joaquin, who runs a renegade radio station. Their family seeks to change its future.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
This Impossible LightLily MyersWritten as a sequence of poems, the novel follows fifteen-year-old Ivy as stress accumulates around her changing body, her parents’ divorce, and growing distance from her best friend. Her mother’s depression is another part of the family’s situation. Under these pressures, Ivy develops an eating disorder. The book centers her struggles with body image and self-worth while tracing the emotional effects of family change and loss of connection.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details