Kids Book Index
Yangsook Choi, illustrated by Yangsook Choi
The author looks back on a powerful storm in her South Korean village, when peaches fell from the sky. In Bucheon, peaches are an unusual and valued treat for the young Yangsook, who writes about them in response to a question about what makes her home distinctive. The book joins a vivid recollection of weather with the place, fruit, and local experience that shape the memory.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
Bounce!: A Scientific History of RubberSarah AlbeeBounce! examines the science and history of rubber, including the properties that make it bounce and feel rubbery. It follows people’s observations of the material over time and its uses in play, clothing, and transportation. Sidebars, graphics, fun facts, a timeline, and pen-and-ink-and-watercolor artwork accompany the account of this material and its role in daily life.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
City of Leafcutter Ants: A Sustainable Society of MillionsAmy HevronBeneath a Central American rainforest, a colony of roughly eight million leafcutter ants functions like a city. The ants are sisters descended from one queen, yet their physical traits and specialties vary. Different ants tend the queen and larvae, break down waste, clean leaf pieces, make antibiotics, dig tunnels, defend the colony, and gather leaves. The leaves become paste for a fungus garden that supplies the colony’s food. A new queen carries fungus on her mating flight to establish a new colony.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Pedro’s Yo-Yos: How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of ToysRob PeñasPedro Flores is a businessman whose biography tells the backstory of the yo-yo. A Filipino immigrant who had struggled, Pedro reimagined the yo-yos he loved as a child and helped popularize them in the United States. The story traces how a toy that can spin, roll, leap, and twirl became part of Pedro’s work, with an author’s note on Philippine history.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details