Kids Book Index
Harriet Muncaster, illustrated by Harriet Muncaster
Isadora Moon is both fairy and vampire, with a fondness for sunshine and nighttime, a magic wand and a black tutu. She does not enjoy learning to be either a fairy or a vampire. At a human school, however, she finds a place that feels comfortable for her distinctive identity.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
The Shape of the World: A Portrait of Frank Lloyd WrightK. L. GoingThis picture-book biography follows Frank Lloyd Wright from childhood into his work as an architect. As a boy, he builds with cubes, spheres, cones, pyramids, and cylinders, and notices shapes throughout the natural world during summers on his uncle’s farm. The book connects those early interests in geometry and nature to his architectural work. It highlights his choices of windows rather than walls and buildings shaped like honeycombs and shells, keeping the focus on the forms and natural influences in his designs.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Banana-Leaf Ball: How Play Can Change the WorldKatie Smith Milway, illustrated by Shane W. Evans, Shane WAfter fleeing war in Burundi, Deo lives in the Lukole refugee camp in Tanzania, separated from his family. Food is scarce, and groups of boys steal from others. Remy and his gang bully Deo and take the twine he has been using to make a banana-leaf ball. A soccer game brings Deo and Remy onto the same team, where they play well together. Their tentative friendship grows as they share soccer skills, make balls, and talk about their homes and families.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
It Takes a VillageHillary Rodham ClintonThis picture book considers how people in a community can work, play, and live alongside one another. It invites reflection on hopes for the world, the gifts each person can offer, and who might be part of one’s own village. Through questions about collaboration, it presents collective action as a way communities can make a positive difference and links individual villages to the possibility of a better world.Five to NineLexile Text Measure AD390LATOS Book Level 2.7On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details