Kids Book Index
David Almond
Annie Lumsden lives by the sea with her artist mother and feels a deep connection to the shoreline, yet she has long felt separate from other girls at school. Words and numbers do not make sense to her, and doctors cannot explain the unusual illnesses she experiences. Her mother’s love and imaginative storytelling help Annie, a girl with disabilities, embrace her own distinctiveness.
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The Accidental Apprentice (Wilderlore series)Amanda FoodyBarclay has lived only in Dullshire, where he is apprenticed to the town’s mushroom farmer. His work requires him to follow rules and work hard in the hope of becoming the head mushroom farmer. After accidentally using magic in the woods, Barclay faces the possibility of being driven from Dullshire into the wilderness. His familiar home is suddenly at risk.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Otto: A PalindramaJon Agee, illustrated by Jon AgeeOtto is a graphic novel about a search for Pip, Otto’s dog. Its language follows a formal constraint: every word, including the words incorporated into the drawings, reads identically from left to right and right to left. The story’s dog-search plot unfolds entirely through palindromes, combining comics with wordplay and visual text. The book is presented as an absurd and humorous narrative.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Aquí era el paraíso: Poemas seleccionados / Here Was Paradise: Selected PoemsPatricia Aldana, illustrated by Amelia Lau Carling, Patricia Aldana, Hugh HazeltonThis bilingual Spanish-English collection gathers selected short poems in twelve thematic parts. The poems attend to village life and everyday objects alongside the natural world, including animals, plants, and woodlands. They also engage with Mayan K’iche’ identity and language. Each section opens with a full-page mixed-media illustration that draws on its central subjects, creating visual entry points to the poems and their recurring attention to place, culture, and nature.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details