Kids Book Index
Jane Yolen, Barbara Diamond Goldin
Old Testament stories center around men. Leaders, prophets, kings, and priests are all male. But hidden in the background are strong-willed, daring females.Jane Yolen and Barbara Diamond Goldin's masterful retellings pairs eloquent profiles with stunning art, answering one question: What makes these women heroes?
Worth a Thousand WordsBrigit YoungWhether it’s earrings, homework, or love notes, Tillie “Lost and Found” Green and her camera can find any lost thing—until a search for a missing person forces her to step out from behind the lens.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Assassination of Brangwain SpurgeM.T. Anderson, Eugene YelchinAn elf and goblin's mission spirals into chaos, risking war.Twelve to FourteenLexile 760LATOS 5.3On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to VoteSusan Zimet, Todd Hasak-LowyThe United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago.And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote margin.The amendment only succeeded…Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details