Kids Book Index
Mac Smith, illustrated by Mac Smith
In a world where people have disappeared and sunlight is scarce, a group of house mice tries to survive a long winter. Cold, dark rain affects everything it touches. The mice search abandoned nearby homes for food scraps while facing starvation and predators. Their effort to endure centers on scarce food, a desolate landscape, and the hazards surrounding them each day of winter.
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A Day in the Life of an Astronaut, Mars, and the Distant StarsMike Barfield, illustrated by Jess BradleyThis comic collection tours the galaxy and more distant reaches of space through humorous entries. It visits Venus’s poisonous clouds, Saturn’s rings, and Jupiter’s storm, then moves into nebulae, black holes, supernovas, and faraway galaxies. The book also looks at people who helped pioneer space travel, animals sent into space before human missions, and the technology that enabled those journeys. Across more than 90 entries, it combines information about celestial objects, exploration, and the history of reaching space.Kids Favorites — 3rd–5th GradeLexile Text Measure GN840LATOS Book Level 5.4On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Search for a Giant Squid: Pick Your PathAmy Seto ForresterThis choice-driven ocean adventure follows an expedition into deep waters where giant squids live. Readers’ decisions lead the research journey in different directions and can produce different results. Set in the ocean’s twilight zone, the book centers on investigating giant squids in their habitat, with detailed color panels accompanying the branching expedition. It combines a deep-sea search with reader-selected paths through the mission.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Super Space Weekend: Adventures in AstronomyGaëlle Alméras, David WarrinerSuper Space Weekend is a nonfiction graphic novel about a trip through the universe. Its subject is astronomy, and it presents that subject as an adventure. The book uses graphic-novel form for its nonfiction material, joining its exploration of the universe with an astronomy-themed journey through space. Its approach is explicitly nonfiction even as it frames this cosmic subject as a voyage.Kids Favorites — 3rd–5th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details