Kids Book Index
Janel Kolby
Fifteen-year-old Rain lives with her alcoholic father in Winterfolk, a homeless camp in Seattle. Homelessness has taught her to make herself unseen, but the city’s plan to clear the camp threatens her home and community. Rain persuades her friend King to bring her into the city, where she must confront the outside world. She begins to recognize that she can be visible and act to help save her community.
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What I Leave BehindAlison McGheeAfter his father’s suicide, Will begins walking and continues for three years. He avoids places connected to his grief, including a blessing shop, the Fourth Street bridge where his father died, and the home of his childhood friend Playa. Will also quietly helps people around him while trying to move beyond his misery. The book is structured as one hundred chapters, each containing one hundred words.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
For Every OneJason ReynoldsA 2018 book of poetry by Jason Reynolds, this collection addresses children who have dreams of becoming more than they are and attempting more than they may dare to imagine. It also acknowledges the difficulty of pursuing those hopes: the speaker does not claim to know how dreams become real and describes struggling toward his own. The book is rooted in dreams, aspiration, and the uncertainty that can accompany them.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Words We Don’t SayK. J. ReillyJoel Higgins has saved 901 text messages that he has never sent. Since an unspecified event, he has been unable to speak face-to-face with certain people. While volunteering at a soup kitchen, Joel meets a homeless veteran living with PTSD. That encounter forces Joel to confront his own unresolved issues, linking his difficulty communicating with questions of service, trauma, and personal struggle.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details