Kids Book Index
Lisa Pliscou
A picture-book biography of the English novelist. Born in the late 1700s, Jane Austen was a smart, creative girl in a house full of boys, all of whom could aspire to accomplish many things as adults while girls were raised primarily to become good wives.
Thirty Minutes over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II StoryMarc Tyler NoblemanAn Orbis Pictus Honor Book for Outstanding Nonfiction 2019 In this important and moving true story of reconciliation after war, beautifully illustrated in watercolor, a Japanese pilot bombs the continental U.S. during WWII—the only enemy ever to do so—and comes back 20 years later to apologize.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced the World That Fairies Are RealMarc Tyler NoblemanThe true story of British cousins who fooled the world for more than 60 years with a remarkable hoax, photographs of "real" fairies.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the WildCatherine ThimmeshRobert F. Sibert Honor Award winner "Complementing Thimmesh's thoughtful, engagingly written text are many arrestingly adorable color photographs of pandas in training and in the wild.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details