Kids Book Index
Jade Hameister
Jade Hameister recounts beginning her Polar Hat Trick attempt at fourteen, after an earlier journey to Everest Base Camp. Her expeditions took her to the North Pole, across Greenland’s ice cap, and on a 37-day journey through Antarctica to the South Pole, completed on January 11, 2018. The book also explains equipment used on the polar expeditions and includes color photographs.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
A Box of BonesMarina CohenTwelve-year-old Kallie relies on logic and wants an explanation for everything. At her town’s Festival of Fools, a man without a face gives her a wooden puzzle box. Kallie tries to unlock it and releases something, drawing her into another world. There, Liah, a young bone carver, travels with her master to sell their work to a wicked queen. Magic unsettles Kallie’s commitment to order.Nine to TwelveATOS Book Level 5.3AR Interest Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Tunnel of BonesVictoria SchwabCassidy Blake travels to Paris with her ghost best friend, Jacob, while her parents film a television program about haunted cities. Cassidy can cross the veil between the living world and the next. Beneath Paris, in the Catacombs, she accidentally awakens a powerful spirit. Cassidy draws on her developing ghost-hunting abilities and seeks help from old and new friends to solve the mystery.Nine to TwelveLexile Text Measure 769LATOS Book Level 4.9On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Religion I Am Hermes!: Mischief-Making Messenger of the GodsMordicai Gerstein, illustrated by Mordicai GersteinHermes, the son of Zeus and the nymph Maia, speaks at birth and immediately asks for the world. Presented in vivid cartoon panels, this graphic novel portrays the Greek messenger god as impish and inventive. Hermes creates the first musical instrument and gives Aesop the ability to tell stories. The book places this figure from classical mythology in a contemporary, humorous setting.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details