Jimi & Me
by Jaime Adoff
Verse novel · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 720L · 2007
Why we'd hand it over
A moving verse novel about a 13-year-old using Jimi Hendrix as a mirror to understand his biracial identity and absent father — unsparing about grief and identity confusion, but grounded in real middle-school texture.