Kids Book Index
Wab Kinew
An Anishinaabe girl lives on a Canadian reservation and has an outstanding standing in the gaming world. She moves between real and virtual worlds. Her connection with a Chinese Uyghur boy develops after he is compelled to leave his country. The book brings together Indigenous identity, online gaming, and the experience of forced migration. It is Wab Kinew’s first novel.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
BlackoutDhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola YoonA blackout during a sweltering night in New York City changes relationships among six Black teenagers. Moving through the darkness, they experience love that is newly found, confessed, renewed, reconsidered, or transformed. The citywide loss of power creates confusion, while the young people encounter one another and reveal things that had been hidden. The book centers intertwined shifts in friendship and romantic connection.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim CulturesChristian AllaireChristian Allaire explores fashion and beauty as forms of self-expression, representation, and cultural reclamation. Beginning with the ribbon shirt made for him by his mother and aunts, the book includes Indigenous designers and a range of topics: cosplay, modest dress and hijabs, natural and braided hair, Native hair, henna, men’s heeled shoes, and makeup for Black skin. Photographs, illustrations, definitions, quotations, and short explanatory sections accompany the profiles and topics throughout the book.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
We Are InevitableGayle FormanNineteen-year-old Aaron works in his family’s secondhand bookstore, though the only book he can bear to read concerns the dinosaurs’ extinction. After his brother dies from an overdose and his mother leaves, Aaron struggles to keep the bookstore financially afloat. The family’s urgent money problems eventually bring assistance from unexpected allies. Aaron’s grief and responsibility shape his effort to hold on to the store.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details