Kids Book Index
Corey Egbert, illustrated by Corey Egbert
Teen Corey and his younger sister endure a kidnapping by their mother, whose mental illness is increasing even though she loves them. As Corey tries to find the truth in the desert, he must also contend with his mother’s delusions and warnings from a ghost. The book follows the siblings’ frightening experience and the impact of their mother’s mental health on their family.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
Bridge Across the SkyFreeman NgIn 1924, a Chinese boy named Tai Go waits for an entrance interview that will decide whether he can enter the United States. Under the Chinese Exclusion Act, he and other immigrants are confined at Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay while officials assess their claims. Tai Go endures confinement, medical examinations, and questioning intended to make detainees fail. During this wait, he finds encouragement in poems carved into barracks walls, fellow detainees prepared to defend their rights, and new friendships.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Even if It Breaks Your HeartErin HahnCase Michaels is nineteen and grieving the death of his best friend, Walker. To deal with that loss, he tries to finish every task on a list Walker left for him. The book also follows two teens as they work out what they want and find the courage to pursue it, including a romance. Case’s efforts to carry out the list place grief, friendship, love, and difficult choices at the center of the story.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
When the World Tips OverJandy NelsonIn a small wine-country town in Northern California, a rainbow-haired girl changes the lives of three siblings whose father disappeared twelve years earlier. Twelve-year-old Dizzy Fall bakes cakes, sees spirits, and wishes to be the heroine of a romance novel. Seventeen-year-old Miles Fall is an athlete and a dog-whisperer who is also lost and hopes to meet the boy he dreams about. The siblings’ lives are already fractured when the mysterious girl arrives.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details