Kids Book Index
Michelle Cuevas, illustrated by Sydney Smith
A bored shadow makes its first venture into freedom and seeks a life with more color. This picture-book story follows the shadow as it leaves its familiar role behind and sets out on its own. Its journey is presented as a joyful search for a different way of living, centered on independence, discovery, and a desire to move beyond what has felt routine.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
Ben’s Revolution: Benjamin Russell and the Battle of Bunker HillNathaniel PhilbrickThis fictionalized account follows twelve-year-old Ben during the opening of the Revolutionary War. Ben and his friends leave their classroom to watch redcoats march from Boston toward Concord. Later that day, Boston is closed off, leaving the boys outside the city and unable to reach their families. Caught in the beginning of a war, Ben experiences the uncertainty of being separated from home as events around him rapidly change.All readersOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
My Beautiful BirdsSuzanne Del RizzoSami is a young Syrian refugee whose life is shaped by the Syrian Civil War. Smoke fills the skyline behind him, while wild birds become a source of hope and promise on his journey. The story follows one boy’s refugee experience and his emotional healing, with the birds alongside him. Its images, made with polymer clay, add texture and depth to this account of displacement, conflict, and the hope he finds in the natural world.All readersOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Still a FamilyBrenda Reeves SturgisA young girl and her parents lose their home and must live in homeless shelters. Shelter rules mean that the girl and her mother stay apart from her father, who lives in a men’s shelter. The family’s daily circumstances are shaped by this separation, but the story emphasizes that family connection is not limited to living in one place. Childlike drawings depict their experience of homelessness and their effort to remain a family.All readersLexile Text Measure AD500LATOS Book Level 2.6On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details