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Falynn Koch
After being injured, a bat reaches a rehabilitation center, where it learns the secrets of flight and survival. Its recovery supplies a story frame within that setting for a fast-paced introduction to bats and their world. Scientific material is paired with laughs and a quick pace. Falynn Koch wrote the 128-page book, which First Second published on February 28, 2017.
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Armstrong and CharlieSteven B. FrankIn 1970s Los Angeles, a school desegregation pilot program sends ten African American sixth graders to a white school in the Hollywood Hills. Armstrong must rise early to take the bus there, while Charlie worries about beginning sixth grade after losing his older brother. Against this background of racial prejudice, school politics, and loss, Armstrong and Charlie form an unexpected friendship across different racial and economic circumstances.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Locked Up for Freedom: Civil Rights Protesters at the Leesburg StockadeHeather E. SchwartzThis informational account examines the 1963 civil rights protests in Americus, Georgia, and the imprisonment of more than thirty African American girls, ages eleven to sixteen. After their arrests, the girls were confined in the Leesburg Stockade, where they faced inhumane treatment. The book includes an author’s note, chronology, source notes, glossary, bibliography, further information, and an index alongside its account of the civil rights movement.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Ben’s Revolution: Benjamin Russell and the Battle of Bunker HillNathaniel PhilbrickThis fictionalized account follows twelve-year-old Ben during the opening of the Revolutionary War. Ben and his friends leave their classroom to watch redcoats march from Boston toward Concord. Later that day, Boston is closed off, leaving the boys outside the city and unable to reach their families. Caught in the beginning of a war, Ben experiences the uncertainty of being separated from home as events around him rapidly change.All readersOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details