Kids Book Index
Ambreen Tariq
After emigrating from India, Fatima finds school difficult. A weekend camping trip becomes her family’s first experience camping in the Midwest. As they spend time outdoors together, Fatima learns more about herself. The story follows an immigrant family entering an unfamiliar kind of adventure and connects Fatima’s experiences at school, home, and on the camping trip.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee BetschHeidi Tyline KingThis picture-book biography introduces MaVynee Betsch, an African American opera singer who became an environmentalist. It recounts her efforts to protect a Florida beach that her great-grandfather had bought during the Jim Crow era. Betsch used her body as a canvas in protesting its destruction. The book follows the preservation of the beach and the legacy connected to it.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
I Am SmokeHenry HerzSmoke speaks as the narrator of this account of its own existence and its long relationship with people. It describes serving human communities since prehistoric times in many ways, including sending signals, tending bees, preserving and flavoring food, supporting religious rites, and fumigating insects. The book also addresses smoke’s cycle of existence. Watercolor, naturalistic illustrations accompany this first-person voice and the history of smoke’s uses across civilizations.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Fearless World Traveler: Adventures of Marianne North, Botanical ArtistLaurie LawlorFearless World Traveler is a biography of botanical artist Marianne North. Although her nineteenth-century English family tried to discourage her art study, she became a botanical painter who portrayed specimens in their natural surroundings. The book follows her travels around the world, notes Charles Darwin among her supporters, and includes the Marianne North Gallery’s opening at Kew Gardens as well as her death in 1890.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details