Kids Book Index
Alys Arden
In contemporary Coney Island, Zatanna is the daughter of a well-known illusionist. When she suddenly gains the ability to understand mirror writing, an inherited trait, she begins to question who her parents really are. She is drawn into a magical rivalry and faces choices involving love, family, and magic, while trying not to hurt anyone. The story also includes mobsters, mystics, and mermaids.
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I Could Not Do Otherwise: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Mary Edwards WalkerSara LattaThis biography follows Dr. Mary Edwards Walker’s challenges to the expectations placed on women. As a teenager, she rejected corsets and long skirts in favor of pants with a short skirt, beginning a lifelong effort to change social conventions. Walker was an abolitionist, suffragist, Union spy, and advocate for unisex clothing for women. She was also the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor. Archival images and photographs accompany her story.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Kurt Vonnegut: The Making of a WriterDan WakefieldThis biography presents Kurt Vonnegut as a celebrated yet complicated American author. It traces the making of a writer whose novels and short fiction include Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and Cat’s Cradle. Vonnegut often worked with science-fiction elements and humor. The book also incorporates his letters and ink sketches, as well as archival photographs, to build its portrait of his life and writing.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
A Scatter of LightMalinda LoAfter a graduation party goes wrong, seventeen-year-old Aria is sent to stay with her grandmother in California. There she meets Steph, her grandmother’s gender-nonconforming gardener and a singer-songwriter. Steph introduces Aria to a working-class queer community in San Francisco. During the summer, Aria begins questioning her identity, sexuality, and what she wants to become. The novel is a standalone companion to Last Night at the Telegraph Club and also revisits Lily and Kath’s later lives.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details