Kids Book Index
Katie Zhao
Kara Martin is a half-witch and half-Coyote shifter whose life is crowded with four shifters. She does not want fewer men around her, even as keeping up with all four leaves her with plenty to manage. This reverse-harem story presents Kara’s supernatural identity alongside her relationships with a group of shifters. Katie Zhao wrote this 206-page book, published in 2019 by Arya Karin.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
Strong Like YouT. L. SimpsonWalker Lauderdale continues hoping that his missing father is alive, despite classmates saying otherwise. He has not cried since his father disappeared, including after comments at football practice suggesting his father is dead. Walker believes his dad is somewhere in the Ozarks, traveling through the wilderness as he always has. The book follows Walker’s grief, hope, and uncertainty about his father’s disappearance.Kids Favorites — 9th–12th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Compound FractureAndrew Joseph WhiteMiles Abernathy, a sixteen-year-old trans autistic West Virginian, becomes involved in a long-running conflict in Twist Creek. On the night he tells his parents he is trans, he leaves for a party carrying photographs that could expose Sheriff Davies. The images suggest the sheriff caused an incident that injured Miles’s father, killed other people, and undermined efforts to remove him from office. The novel places Miles’s struggle within a broader fight between impoverished rural residents and those exploiting them.Kids Favorites — 9th–12th GradeLexile Text Measure 781LATOS Book Level 5On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
10 Things I Hate About PromElle Gonzalez RoseIvelisse Santos and Joaquin Romero are next-door neighbors and close friends, a relationship Ivelisse sees as purely platonic. That certainty shifts when Joaquin plans to invite Tessa Hernandez, the girl who previously took Ivelisse’s boyfriend, to prom. Joaquin asks Ivelisse, a tech-crew leader, to help organize an elaborate promposal. Though she wants to refuse, she agrees because graduation is approaching and she wants more time with him. The story centers on friendship, romantic uncertainty, prom plans, and Ivelisse’s changing feelings.Kids Favorites — 9th–12th GradeATOS Book Level 6.3AR Interest Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details