Kids Book Index
Desmond Hall
Frankie hopes to leave Jamaica and use his college scholarship in the United States. His plans change after his father is shot, making his longtime crush Leah’s invitation to a date seem far less important. Trying to save his father draws Frankie into his family’s criminal and political activities. The story follows the pressure he faces as family loyalty, violence, romance, and his hoped-for future collide.
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No Way, They Were Gay?: Hidden Lives and Secret LovesLee WindThis historical account presents the lives of many LGBTQIA+ people across different periods. It considers how the historical record is shaped by those who create it and how bias can leave some identities unseen or misrepresented. Primary materials—including photographs and letters—are woven into the text, alongside footnotes and an author’s note, to examine hidden lives and relationships through surviving evidence.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Yesterday Is HistoryKosoko JacksonAndre receives a liver transplant that gives him the same ability to travel through time that his organ donor possessed. That ability may put him in danger as a Black teenager. Across the past and present, he is torn between two loves: one in his own time and another in an earlier one. The book combines romance with time travel and medical transplantation.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of HungerMargarita EngleDuring a difficult period in Cuba when people face starvation, teenagers Liana and Amado meet through a stray dog. The two evade compulsory labor presented as voluntary while their relationship grows. Inspired by the author’s family history, the story takes place during Cuba’s Special Period in peacetime. Told in verse, it brings together hunger, oppression, a shared effort to escape labor, and love in a period of scarcity.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details