Kids Book Index
Jacqueline Davies
Two girls become new friends in a small Pennsylvania town during sixth grade. Together, they devise a succession of imaginative pranks that use hacking. Their schemes are intended to make school life less dull while disrupting its established social order. The pair use their shared intelligence to shake up the world around them, carrying out one prank after another in their town and school.
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Fossils (Rock On! series)Chris OxladeThis nonfiction introduction examines several kinds of fossils and how they form. It considers fossils’ composition, appearance, locations, histories, and changes over time. Examples include a woolly mammoth body discovered in Siberia, dinosaur remains, and petrified forests. Color photographs support the presentation, alongside fact callouts and references. The book connects physical properties with the processes that produce and transform fossils.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about KindnessDonna Janell BowmanThis biography tells of William “Doc” Key, who was born enslaved and later became a self-taught veterinarian. With patient, humane care, he raised and trained a horse named Jim Key. Jim learned to respond to questions and to perform tasks involving spelling, writing, reading, and arithmetic. Doc and Jim traveled as a performance act around the turn of the twentieth century. Their work together also promoted kinder treatment of animals, placing their unusual partnership within a larger story of care and public attention.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Oedipus: Trapped by DestinyYvan Pommaux, illustrated by Yvan Pommaux, Richard KutnerYvan Pommaux’s Oedipus: Trapped by Destiny presents a doomed life shaped by a terrible prophecy: Oedipus is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. The consequences extend beyond those acts, leaving him cursed for the rest of his life. The book uses a graphic format with stylized illustrations to portray this mythic family tragedy. Published by TOON Books in 2016, it is a compact visual account of Oedipus’s fate.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details