Kids Book Index
Edwidge Danticat
Sixteen-year-old Giselle Boyer is inseparable from her identical twin, Isabelle, although their family is already coming apart. After a devastating car collision, Giselle awakens in hospital unable to speak, move, or ask what happened to her parents and twin. Unable to communicate, she revisits her past to understand how her friends, parents, and especially Isabelle have shaped her.
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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
FDR and the American CrisisAlbert MarrinAlbert Marrin’s book examines the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt alongside the unsettled American period in which he lived. It places Roosevelt’s biography within the history of those turbulent years and includes archival photographs. The account joins the story of a U.S. president with the larger national crises of his time in detail.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Violent EndsShaun David Hutchinson, written by Kendare Blake, Others978-‐1-‐4814-‐3745-‐5 What turns a high school senior into a cold-‐blooded killer? Seventeen different authors seek the answer.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details