Kids Book Index
Kate Saunders
As the First World War approaches, Cyril prepares to fight, while Anthea attends art college, Robert studies at Cambridge, and Jane is in high school. The sand fairy Psammead returns, but its magic now serves a more serious aim than it did when the siblings were young. The novel places this family amid the First World War and brings fantasy into their changed lives.
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Elizabeth Started All the TroubleDoreen RappaportThis book follows Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s challenge to the limits placed on women in the United States. Unable to attend college, become a politician, or vote, Stanton joined with women around the country to demand equal treatment and voting rights. The account places her efforts within a struggle that continued for nearly seventy-five years, as generations of women pressed for change through words, action, and determination.Nine to TwelveLexile Text Measure 790LATOS Book Level 5On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Birth of Kitaro (Shigeru Mizuki’s Kitaro series)Shigeru Mizuki, illustrated by Shigeru Mizuki, Zack DavissonThis English translation gathers seven early stories featuring Kitaro, a one-eyed yōkai boy from another realm. Across the collected comics, Kitaro faces ghosts and spirits. The volume presents material from Shigeru Mizuki’s Kitaro series in a newly translated English edition and includes pen-and-ink illustrations. Its central figure is a monster boy, while the stories focus on his encounters and conflicts with supernatural beings. The book is a collection rather than a single continuous tale.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Fluffy Strikes Back (A P.U.R.S.T Adventure series)Ashley Spires, illustrated by Ashley SpiresSergeant Fluffy Vandermere is P.U.R.S.T.’s leading bureau-cat, charged with protecting the world from alien domination, which he identifies as bugs. When the “aliens” invade P.U.R.S.T. headquarters, Fluffy leaves the bureau and returns to fieldwork. He undertakes a solo mission to defeat the intruders and rescue the hostages. The adventure is told in colored graphic-format panels.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details