Kids Book Index
Barbara Kerley
Eleven-year-old Jordie Marie Wallace is excited when Professor Reese moves in next door. The new neighbor has a basement laboratory and Baxter, an unusual dog who appears able to understand Jordie. Jordie and her younger brother, TJ, start walking Baxter and assisting Professor Reese with work in the lab. The siblings soon learn that helping there involves more than they had expected.
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Lifeboat 12Susan HoodThis novel in verse draws on the experiences of Ken Sparks, a thirteen-year-old child evacuee leaving wartime England for Canada during the Blitz. Ken travels aboard the SS City of Benares with other children, hoping to escape the bombings. Six hundred miles from shore, a U-boat torpedo strikes the ship. Ken boards Lifeboat 12, where passengers, including six boys, face eight days in the Atlantic with tightly rationed food and water while rescue efforts appear to have missed them.Nine to TwelveLexile Text Measure 610LATOS Book Level 4On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Season of Styx MaloneKekla MagoonCaleb and his older brother Bobby Gene live in a small Indiana town, where their father wants their family to remain safe and ordinary. They meet Styx Malone, an older African American boy living with a nearby foster family, whose plans draw them beyond their usual routines. Together they begin a sequence of escalating trades, starting with fireworks and ending with a motorbike, until the deals become dangerous and illegal.Nine to TwelveLexile Text Measure 510LATOS Book Level 3.4On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden GardenKarina Yan GlaserWhen a catastrophe affects the Vanderbeekers’ upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children decide to make a healing garden in Harlem. Their plan centers on a nearby lot, but reaching it is not simple: a locked fence, thistles, and trash stand in their way. A wealthy real estate developer also has plans for the same space, putting the children’s garden project in conflict with another vision for the lot. The family works together through these obstacles as they try to create the garden next door.Nine to TwelveLexile Text Measure 820LATOS Book Level 5.2On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details