Kids Book Index
Ashley Woodfolk
Twenty-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.
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This Is My Brain in LoveI. W. GregorioJocelyn Wu, sixteen, faces academic pressure while her family’s Chinese restaurant is failing. She wants to make a short film with her best friend Priya Venkatram and hopes not to be confused with or compared to the school’s only other Chinese girl, Peggy Chang. A new employee, Will, privately deals with anxiety. Jocelyn and Will’s alternating narratives include their effort to save the restaurant and a romance that surprises them both.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure 951LATOS Book Level 6.3On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Golden ArmCarl DeukerLaz is a 19-year-old star pitcher whose poverty and learning disabilities shape his choices. He has the chance to pitch for a more competitive school and possibly pursue a major-league draft, but doing so would require him to leave his community. The story follows baseball, brotherhood, and Laz’s effort to use his pitching ability to move beyond poverty while weighing what he may have to give up.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
WishboneAnna Garcia SchaperPilar is fifteen, and her mother begins watching her diet more closely after Pilar returns from school crying. Pilar herself thinks she might like to lose weight. The novel moves between her experience and that of her Mexican American great-aunt, whose life unfolds forty-five years earlier. Both confront misogyny and fat-shaming.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details