The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
by Scott Stambach
Middle grade · ages 12–18 · grades 7–12 · 780L · 2016
Why we'd hand it over
Unflinching portrait of a boy with severe cerebral palsy institutionalized in a Soviet orphanage; funny, tender, and emotionally sophisticated in ways most kids-lit isn't—but not for every 11-year-old.