Kids Book Index
Rafi Mittlefehldt
Eran Sharon, seventeen, remembers little about the father who left when he was a baby. Publicity around a student protest brings painful parts of his family’s past into view. With his Israeli-born mother, Eran faces difficult truths while considering how that past shapes his heritage, legacy, and sense of identity. The disclosure begins with a viral video. Rafi Mittlefehldt wrote the novel.
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Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of ArcDavid Elliott, map by Cara LlewelynThis verse narrative draws on brief statements from Joan of Arc’s Trial of Condemnation and from people who spoke at a later trial. It recounts and imagines Joan’s final days while revisiting her earlier efforts against the English claim on France in the fifteenth century. Poems move among the voices of historical and religious figures, animals, objects, ideas, Joan herself, and fire. The book addresses her spiritual visions, gender nonconformity, church power, and misogyny.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Angel ThievesKathi AppeltSixteen-year-old Cade Curtis lives with his father above an antique shop after his mother leaves them. The shop’s owner, Mrs. Walker, requires Cade to steal marble angels from graveyards as payment, then sells them to collectors. In Houston, the Buffalo Bayou connects Cade with a Cajun girl, a young mother escaping slavery, a Native American stone carver, and an ocelot. Their stories unfold across different times.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
What We BuriedKate A. BoormanLiv and Jory, teenage siblings, narrate in alternating viewpoints. Liv is a former beauty queen, while Jory has a facial deformity. Their parents vanish just before a verdict is due in Liv’s emancipation lawsuit. The siblings set out to find them. Their search unfolds alongside questions about memory, time, and what it takes to establish the truth when the consequences may be life or death.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details