Kids Book Index
Margarita Engle
Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot—the Latinos featured in Bravo!, by author Margarita Engle and illustrator Rafael López, come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds.
Miguel’s Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don QuixoteMargarita EngleMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra finds refuge from his difficult childhood by imagining the adventures of a brave but clumsy knight.This fictionalized first-person biography in verse of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra follows the early years of the child who grows up to pen Don Quixote, the first modern novel.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Magician and the Spirits: Harry Houdini and the Curious Pastime of Communicating with the DeadDeborah Noyes“Noyes makes history accessible and irresistible . . . Excellent.” * A century ago, the curious idea that spirits not only survive death but can be contacted on the “other side” was widespread.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Come On In, America: The United States in World War ILinda Barrett OsborneAmericans were told they were fighting a war for democracy, but with racial segregation rampant in the United States, new laws against dissent and espionage being passed, and bankers and industrial leaders gaining increased influence and power, what did democracy mean?Come On In, America explores not only how and why the United…Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details