Kids Book Index
Philip Reeve
Sika and Shen enter the Great Northern Race with a team of sixty-six pugs. They hope to win the race, reach the Snowfather, and receive the thing each of them desires most. Their journey is framed as a race to the top of the world, with the pugs forming their unusually large team. The story follows their effort to reach the promised reward at the end of the competition.
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¡Olinguito, de la A a la Z!/Olinguito, from A to Z!Lulu DelacreUsing the Spanish alphabet as its structure, this bilingual nonfiction book introduces a cloud forest in the Andes. It looks at the plants, animals, and other organisms that live there, including the olinguito, a recently identified South American mammal. The book also follows a search for this elusive animal in the Ecuadorean Andes, with mixed-media illustrations accompanying its exploration of the region’s flora and fauna.All readersOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Yaks Yak: Animal Word PairsLinda Sue ParkThis picture book pairs animals with actions that share the same spelling and pronunciation. Yaks talk, ducks duck, rams ram, and other animals act out verbs made from their own names. Each spread focuses on one homograph pair in a whimsical scene, along with a definition of the action word. A chart at the back gathers the animal-and-action words and explains their etymology, including cases where the verb comes from the animal’s behavior.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Red’s PlanetEddie PittmanRed is a headstrong ten-year-old who wants to get far away from her foster family and live in her own version of paradise. A UFO accidentally takes her across the galaxy onto a huge spacecraft. Before she can be found as a stowaway, the ship crashes on an uninhabited small planet. Red is left there with a group of misfit aliens after being kidnapped by intergalactic thieves.All readersLexile Text Measure GN350LATOS Book Level 2.8On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details