Kids Book Index
Ann Liang
When seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin’s essay about meeting the love of her life unexpectedly goes viral, her entire life changes overnight. Now she has the approval of her classmates at her new international school in Beijing, a career-launching internship opportunity at her favorite magazine…and a massive secret to keep.Eliza made her essay up.
The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial AdoptionShannon GibneyGibney surrounds her stories with reproductions of her own adoption documents, letters, family photographs, interviews, medical records, and brief essays on the surreal absurdities of the adoptee experience.Strikingly honest and beautifully written, this speculative memoir explores the rarely depicted experience of transracial adoption first-hand, and offers an insightful look into the discovery…Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Rana Joon and the One and Only NowShideh EtaatBut it’s the San Fernando Valley in 1996, and Rana Joon is far from perfect—she smokes weed and loves Tupac, and she has a secret: she likes girls.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow SouthJaha Nailah AveryNYPL BEST OF THE YEAR BEST OF THE BEST, BLACK CAUCUS OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONA stunning collection of oral histories from Black elders who grew up in the Jim Crow South The past is not past.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details