Kids Book Index
Hadi Mohammadi
A girl with a physical disability watches a spinning horse mobile from her bed when a horse appears at her bedroom door. She then travels with seven horses on a fantastical journey. Along the way, the horses come together to share their visions and dreams. The story is framed as an imaginative parable centered on the girl and the seven horses.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
The Water Lady: How Darlene Arviso Helps a Thirsty Navajo NationAlice B. McGintyThis picture-book account follows Darlene Arviso as she delivers water by tanker truck to homes on the Navajo reservation. When Cody’s family runs out of water, he learns about the Water Lady’s route as she fills her truck at a water tower and travels from home to home. Over a month, she serves more than 200 families before beginning again. At Cody’s house, she refills the family’s barrels with clean water, which they use carefully and sparingly.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Someone Builds the DreamLisa WheelerThis rhyming picture book looks beyond big ideas to the people who make them real. It follows plans for a house, bridge, fountain, wind turbine, amusement park, and book, showing workers who tighten bolts, operate cranes, drive machines, set text, run presses, and load paper. Architects, artists, engineers, authors, and illustrators appear alongside the many other workers whose labor brings each project into being.Five to NineLexile Text Measure AD610LATOS Book Level 4On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Laxmi’s MoochShelly AnandLaxmi, a young Indian American girl, has not paid much attention to the small hairs above her lip. After a friend notices her facial hair, she receives loving reassurance. The story follows Laxmi as she comes to accept her body hair and connect that acceptance with celebrating her heritage, presenting natural facial hair as part of the wide variety of human bodies.Younger ReadersOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details