Kids Book Index
Jacquetta Nammar Feldman
This powerful and poignant coming-of-age middle grade debut novel follows an Arab American girl named Yasmeen as she moves to San Antonio with her family and navigates finding friendship-and herself.
Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret CodeRebecca E. F. BaroneBut to the Allied troops listening in—and they were always listening—the crucial messages sounded like gibberish.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Alte Zachen/Old ThingsZiggy HanaorSHORTLISTED FOR THE YOTO CARNEGIES MEDAL FOR ILLUSTRATION 2023A beautifully illustrated and presented intergenerational graphic novel that follows eleven-year-old Benji and his elderly grandmother, Bubbe Rosa, as they traverse Brooklyn and Manhattan, gathering the ingredients for a Friday night dinner.Bubbe’s relationship with the city is complex—nothing is quite as she remembered it…Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
WorserJennifer ZieglerA bullied 12-year-old boy must find a new normal after his mother has a stroke and his life is turned upside down.William Wyatt Orser, a socially awkward middle schooler, is a wordsmith who, much to his annoyance, acquired the ironically ungrammatical nickname of “Worser" so long ago that few people at school…Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details