Kids Book Index
Lauren Yero
Rumi has a privileged life in Upper City, whose citizens are protected from environmental devastation beyond its borders. When his father becomes ill, Rumi crosses the border to seek a cure. On the journey, he meets Paz, who has joined terrorists and intends to betray him. Rebels have infected Rumi’s father with a fatal virus, forcing Rumi to flee St. Iago.
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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass: The Graphic NovelMeg Medina, illustrated by Mel Valentine VargasThis graphic-novel edition adapts Meg Medina’s YA novel about school bullying, with art by Mel Valentine Vargas. The story begins at the start of sophomore year, when Piedad “Piddy” Sanchez is struggling to adjust to a new high school. It centers on Piddy’s experience during this transition and on bullying at school, presenting the earlier novel in graphic-novel form. Medina is credited as its author, and Vargas as adapter and illustrator.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Promise BoysNick BrooksAfter the principal of a tightly disciplined preparatory school is murdered, three students are arrested. All three are boys of color, and they decide to work together to establish their innocence before blame settles on them. As they pursue the truth behind the killing, the students must navigate the consequences of the investigation at their school and the suspicion directed at them.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure 731LATOS Book Level 4.7On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Warrior Girl UnearthedAngeline BoulleySixteen-year-old Perry Firekeeper-Birch spends the summer as an intern in a tribal museum, where she learns about NAGPRA and the failure to return Native ancestral remains and sacred items. Disturbed by what she sees at a nearby college, Perry takes impulsive action while local Indigenous women disappear. A trustee’s murder leads her to a devastating discovery involving ancestral remains, exposing further secrets hidden on the land.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure HL720LATOS Book Level 5.09On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details