Kids Book Index
Barbara O'Connor
Idalee Lovett lives in Colby, North Carolina, in her family’s large house with rooms to rent. While her mother tours with a cover band for the summer, Idalee works on becoming a songwriter. She hopes to hear one of her country songs played on the radio. When the local station announces a contest whose winning song will be recorded by an emerging singer, Idalee decides she wants to win it.
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Cosmo ParkMadeleine Finlay, illustrated by Tom DearieAt the Universal Nature Park, visitors travel through the Milky Way in hover-buggies and encounter cosmology through a comic adventure. The journey includes black holes that may escape their enclosure, meteorite storms, and the freezing far end of the universe. Alongside these imagined park attractions, a mystery and threatening plot develop while the fate of the universe is at risk. The narrative introduces key ideas about cosmology.Kids Favorites — 6th–8th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Climate Is Just the StartMikaela LoachMikaela Loach explains the climate crisis and links it to wider social inequities. Drawing on stories from her own activism, she also writes about people around the world who are already experiencing its effects and responding to them. The book addresses the sense of powerlessness that can accompany news about the crisis and presents climate action as part of building a more equitable world.Kids Favorites — 6th–8th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Extra LargeTyler PageAt the start of a new school year, Tyler faces unfamiliar rules and bullies while becoming more aware of how his body differs from those of other boys. Messages on television and pressure at home to diet add to his questions about thinness, health, and fatness. As his family begins dieting at his father’s insistence, Tyler considers the difference between meeting social expectations and living comfortably in his own body.Kids Favorites — 6th–8th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details