# Onyx & Beyond

**Author:** Amber McBride
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**Age range:** 8–12
**First published:** 2024
**Page count:** 199
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781250908773`
**ISBN-10:** `1250908779`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/onyx-and-beyond
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A middle-grade novel in verse about a boy named Onyx whose mother is living with early-onset Alzheimer's. Amber McBride writes a tender story about love, memory, and holding on to family. Selected for the 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (grades 3-5), chosen each year by the Oklahoma Library Association.

## Themes

- family
- memory
- love

## Content notes

- illness in family

## Where this book is assigned

### Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)

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