Kids Book Index
Ryan Graudin
In an alternate 1950s where Germany and Japan won World War II, Yael has escaped the Nazi medical experiments that changed her appearance and left her able to assume the forms of other women and girls. She trains to impersonate Adele Wolf, winner of an annual motorcycle race across the Axis empires. Yael’s plan is to win the race, attend the Victor’s Ball as Adele, dance with Hitler, and assassinate him.
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Read Between the LinesJo KnowlesOver one day in a high school community, each chapter presents a different person’s perspective. Most narrators are students, alongside a recent graduate and a first-year English teacher. Each is either giving or receiving an obscene hand gesture. Context reveals the frustration, humiliation, fear, despair, and sometimes longstanding family pain behind the gesture. The interconnected accounts also include moments of tenderness and connection among people whose circumstances are not immediately visible to one another.Fiction for Young AdultsOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Newt’s EmeraldGarth NixAt her eighteenth-birthday celebration, Lady Truthful Newington’s magical family emerald is stolen. The jewel grants magical power to its wearer and supports the Newington family’s fortune; after it disappears, Truthful’s father becomes ill. Determined to retrieve it, Truthful goes to London and, using her great-aunt’s magic, adopts the disguise of a male French cousin so she can travel freely. She meets Major Harnett, who agrees to help search for the missing heirloom as the mystery unfolds amid Regency society and magic.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
You Can’t See the ElephantsSusan KrellerMascha spends each summer with her grandparents while her father copes with the death of her mother by immersing himself in work. Lonely and grieving, thirteen-year-old Mascha befriends Julia and Max, two younger children living nearby. She notices their bruises and eventually witnesses their father hurting Max. Her grandparents and other adults refuse to believe her because the father is respected in the community. Convinced she must protect her friends, Mascha makes a plan to hide the children in an abandoned house.Fiction for Young AdultsOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details