Kids Book Index
Grades 3–5 · Source entry 01
Jennifer Swanson
3 Weeks in the Rainforest follows a women-led Field Museum team during a three-week rapid inventory in the Colombian Amazon, showing how scientific and community evidence can support rainforest conservation.
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12A Hero's Guide to Summer VacationPablo CartayaA Hero's Guide to Summer Vacation sends Gonzalo and his estranged, famous-author grandfather on a cross-country book tour where real and imagined challenges force them to confront family history and learn to show up for one another.Grades 3–5Lexile 781LATOS 5Book details
18A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto AlvarezMaría Dolores ÁguilaA Sea of Lemon Trees is a 2025 children's novel in free verse about Roberto Alvarez and the Lemon Grove Incident, in which a Mexican American community successfully challenged school segregation in 1930s California.Grades 3–5Lexile 800LATOS 5.1Book details
02Akeem Keeps Bees!: A Close-Up Look at the Honey Makers and Pollinators of Sankofa FarmsKamal Eugene William Bell, Akeem Bell, illustrated by Darnell JohnsonAkeem Keeps Bees! follows Akeem and his father through a year of beekeeping at Sankofa Farms, from installing bees and finding the queen to harvesting honey and preparing the hive for winter.Grades 3–5Book details