Kids Book Index
Dusti Bowling
Twelve-year-old Jolene watches a library livestream featuring Addie Earhart, another twelve-year-old who flies an ultralight plane above the desert. Jolene’s home life is troubled by her mother’s narcotic addiction, while Addie is grieving her father. When Addie crashes in the desert, Jolene is the only person who knows and faces the emergency alone as she races to help the stranded pilot.
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The Three Princes of Serendip: New Tellings of Old Tales for EveryoneRodaan Al GalidiThis illustrated collection contains twenty fables and folktales from the Middle East. Its stories feature figures including donkeys, roosters, kings, sheikhs, and paupers, and are accompanied by cut-paper art. The tales carry ideas about love and acceptance while cautioning against foolishness. Shaped into a children’s book after the author migrated to the Netherlands, the collection was translated into English by Laura Watkinson.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Across the Rainbow Bridge: Stories of Norse Gods and HumansKevin Crossley-HollandFive tales draw on Norse mythology, set in a world of green glades, glaciers, mountain trolls, dwarves, frost giants, ghosts, and magic. Gods and goddesses sometimes cross the rainbow bridge to aid humans, but their encounters can have unpredictable results. The stories portray Scandinavian gods as fallible, capricious, and enigmatic, and illustrations give the epic figures a bold, limited-palette visual presence.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Deadliest Diseases Then and Now (The Deadliest series)Deborah HopkinsonThe book examines plagues and pandemics from the Middle Ages through the present, including the Black Plague and COVID-19. It considers how outbreaks began and how they affected the world. It also describes advances in science and medicine used to treat illnesses. A glossary, bibliography, and source notes provide additional reference material. Its account ranges from historical diseases to COVID-19.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details