Kids Book Index
Terry Lynn Johnson
Eleven-year-old Matt struggles with math and must create a business to avoid a failing grade. A business project leads him to start a dog sled school. As he works on it, Matt confronts his self-doubt and gains two friends. The book connects his school difficulty with a practical project involving sled dogs, business, and the relationships that develop while he tries to improve his situation.
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Older than Dirt: A Wild but True History of EarthDon Brown, Mike PerfitThis science comic follows Earth’s immense history, beginning with the Big Bang nearly 14.5 billion years ago. A cloud of gas, dust, and rock gradually develops into a molten sphere, and the account continues through the formation of the planet to the present. It presents the long span of Earth’s past through a comic format while focusing on the changes that led from the universe’s earliest beginnings to the world we know.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Eye of the Storm: NASA, Drones, and the Race to Crack the Hurricane CodeAmy CherrixEye of the Storm is a photo-documentary about a NASA project studying hurricanes. Based at Wallops Island near Virginia’s Assateague Island National Seashore, the project sends the Global Hawk drone toward Hurricane Edouard as it forms over North Africa in 2014. Researchers use the data to investigate hurricane intensification and improve forecasts. The account includes meteorologists, project managers, flight directors, and drone pilots.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Soldier Song: A True Story of the Civil WarDebbie LevySet during the winter after the Battle of Fredericksburg, this true Civil War account shows how music shaped camp life for Union and Confederate soldiers. Songs marked waking, breakfast, and work while both sides waited through the winter. Although they used different lyrics for “Dixie,” soldiers from both armies eventually joined together one evening to sing “Home, Sweet Home.” The book explores a single night when music briefly connected enemies. It includes a Civil War note, song information, timeline, bibliography, and quotation source.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details