Kids Book Index
Nina LaCour
After she ages out of foster care, Mila accepts an internship on an isolated farm along the California coast. The place is surrounded by flowers, fog, and waves below. As she begins this second chance, unexplained gifts tied to her earlier life start appearing. The story joins Mila’s new work and remote surroundings to the past that continues to reach her.
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The Iron Will of Genie LoF. C. YeeGenie Lo wants an ordinary senior year, but she is the reincarnation of a magical weapon from Chinese legend. Having previously protected the Bay Area from demons, she is now the Heaven-appointed Guardian of California, responsible for yaoguai and spirits on Earth. Her new role becomes still more urgent when a demon begins an extra-dimensional war. The story combines school life with a vast supernatural responsibility, drawing on Chinese legend as Genie faces demons, spirits, and conflict beyond her ordinary world.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
When You Were EverythingAshley WoodfolkTwenty-seven days have passed since Cleo and Layla’s friendship broke apart. After years as best friends, challenges in eleventh grade have separated them. Cleo has come to understand that they will not return to being best friends. She wants to get rid of every recollection, whether happy or painful, that still ties her to Layla, while trying to work out what comes next.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
We Are Not FreeTraci CheeFourteen teenage and young adult voices from San Francisco’s Japantown recount the imprisonment of Japanese and Japanese American people during World War II. Minnow, an aspiring artist, opens and closes the novel, while the other narrators describe events from March 1942 until shortly before victory in Europe. Families are sent from the Tanforan assembly center, located at a racetrack, to Topaz. Family conflict and disputes over a loyalty oath deepen their trauma, and some people are transferred to Tule Lake.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure 860LATOS Book Level 5.5On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details