Kids Book Index
Livia Blackburne
This picture-book account introduces Chinese immigrants in nineteenth-century Los Angeles and recounts the anti-Chinese violence of 1871, when a mob killed eighteen Chinese men.
A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto AlvarezMaría Dolores ÁguilaA Sea of Lemon Trees is a 2025 children's novel in free verse about Roberto Alvarez and the Lemon Grove Incident, in which a Mexican American community successfully challenged school segregation in 1930s California.Grades 3–5Lexile 800LATOS 5.1On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
George Washington's Spectacular Spectacles: The Glasses That Saved AmericaSelene Castrovilla, illustrated by Jenn HarneyAt the Newburgh crisis, George Washington's unexpected use of reading glasses helps calm angry officers and defuse a confrontation that threatened the young United States.Third to Fifth GradeLexile 530LOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Faye and the Dangerous Journey: An Ojibwe Removal Survival StoryKim Sigafus, illustrated by Soia Di Chiara ManettiIn 1850, Faye and her Ojibwe family make a dangerous journey to Sandy Lake for an annuity payment that never arrives, confronting hunger, illness, and forced removal.Third to Fifth GradeLexile 660LOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details