Kids Book Index
written and illustrated by Pan Cooke
Growing up with undiagnosed OCD sure isn’t easy, and here Pan Cooke shares his own experiences with that condition in a graphic-novel memoir that is as funny as it is powerfully candid and openhearted.Pan Cooke is ten years old when anxious thoughts begin to take over his brain like pieces of an…
What’s Eating Jackie Oh?Patricia ParkA Korean American teen tries to balance her dream to become a chef with the cultural expectations of her family when she enters the competitive world of a TV cooking show.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Wild River and the Great Dam: The Construction of Hoover Dam and the Vanishing Colorado RiverSimon BoughtonAt the time of its completion in 1936, Hoover Dam was the biggest dam in the world and the largest feat of architecture and engineering in the country--a statement of national ambition and technical achievement.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Radar and the Raft: A True Story About a Scientific Marvel, the Lives It Saved, and the World It ChangedJeff LantosThis science-history nonfiction adventure mash-up will be on every middle grade reader's radar.Who knew that an improbable rescue during WWII would be facilitated by scientific discoveries in the 18th century?Expert researcher and educator Jeff Lantos makes the history-science connection between batteries and radar and one oceanic adventure in this engaging middle-grade escapade…Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details