Kids Book Index
Jeff Gottesfeld and Michelle Y. Green, illustrated by Kim Holt
In 1939, lawyer Samuel Wilbert Tucker organizes a peaceful sit-in at a segregated Virginia library and begins a long legal fight for equal access to public reading spaces.
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
It's About Time!: Big Ideas That Changed the World #6 (A Nonfiction Graphic Novel)Don Brown, illustrated by Don BrownWith Albert Einstein as guide, this graphic nonfiction book explores how people have measured time, from ancient monuments and sundials to watches, standardized time, and atomic clocks.Third to Eighth GradeLexile GN940LOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
One Wrong StepJennifer A. NielsenTwelve-year-old Atlas Wade joins his father on an expedition to climb the still-unconquered Mount Everest. After an avalanche strands the team, Atlas, Maddie, and the injured Sherpa Chodak climb into danger to search for survivors while fearing a Nazi spy.Third to Eighth GradeATOS 4.8On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details