Kids Book Index
Victoria Grace Elliott
This nonfiction graphic novel traces the origins and history of familiar foods, beginning with questions such as who first made a pickle. It considers how foods came to be and presents their development through a mix of factual material, legends, and recipes. The book focuses on food innovation and invites readers to explore the stories behind things they may recognize from everyday eating.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
Ride or DieDelilah S. DawsonBrie sees an overnight trip to the Wildwoods amusement park as a chance to join the school’s most popular girls while keeping a damaging secret hidden. The group’s game of truth or dare leaves her alone in an abandoned, unsettling part of the park. There she meets older teens who seem welcoming, unaware that an awakened evil is nearby and threatens to turn the night into a deadly encounter.Kids Favorites — 9th–12th GradeWord Count 47913On one of the same reading listsView book details
My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights MovementWillie Mae BrownSet in Selma, Alabama, this account looks at Willie Mae Brown’s childhood as the civil rights movement and the campaign for voting rights unfolded around her. It includes life within and beyond the Brown family home, alongside events connected with the 1965 march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Brown describes growing up Black in Selma and recalls attending church with her mother to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Flying Horse (Once Upon a Horse #1)Sarah Maslin Nir, illustrated by Laylie FrazierThe Flying Horse opens a fictional series drawn from real horses and people’s attachment to them. Its central horse, Trendsetter, is said to be destined to fly in more than one way. Sarah Maslin Nir wrote the book, which includes black-and-white art by Laylie Frazier. It links one horse’s future to a series about horses and human devotion.Librarian Favorites — 6th–8th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details