Kids Book Index
Beth Kephart
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie spends the summer in the Adirondacks with her television-star uncle and her best friend, Matias. Matias is a Salvadoran artist with proportionate dwarfism. When two convicts escape from a nearby prison, the summer turns dangerous. A missing friend and the escaped convicts lead Lizzie on a journey through the Adirondack wilderness. Soft watercolor illustrations represent Matias’s paintings.
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Mary Shelley: The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein’s CreatorCatherine ReefThis biography traces Mary Shelley’s life before and after she wrote Frankenstein at nineteen. It examines the influence of her feminist-writer mother, teacher-and-publisher father, and relationship with the poet Percy Shelley. Mary and Percy moved often, faced debt and rumors of infidelity, and lost three of their four children before Percy drowned at twenty-nine. Despite Frankenstein’s success, Mary struggled to support herself and her son through later writing and editorial work.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Dolores Huerta Stands Strong: The Woman Who Demanded JusticeMarlene Targ BrillDolores Huerta is presented as the daughter of a farmer who immigrated to the United States. She committed herself to community service and political activism. With Cesar Chavez, Huerta helped found the National Farmworkers Association, an organization later known as the United Farm Workers of America. She was the second Mexican American woman to earn the Presidential Medal of Freedom award.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Without RefugeJane MitchellThirteen-year-old Ghalib lives in a Kurdish Syrian town under continued bombing. He longs for ordinary parts of life: spending time with friends at the market, supporting his soccer team, and attending school. Instead, he and his family undertake a frightening journey out of their country as civil war continues around them. The story follows a family displaced by conflict and Ghalib’s wish to regain a familiar daily life.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details