Kids Book Index
Elise Gravel
The Bug Club explores insects through cartoon-style illustrations and unusual facts. It introduces details such as caterpillars having twelve eyes and mosquitoes being drawn to smelly feet. The book takes readers through the varied insect world, highlighting creatures whose features can seem strange enough to belong in outer space. It is a fact-filled introduction to bugs and their distinctive traits.
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Too Small TolaAtinukeThree short stories introduce Tola, who lives in a Lagos apartment with her clever sister Moji, fast brother Dapo, and bossy Grandmommy. Though Tola is small, she carries a basket of groceries home from the market and counts Grandmommy’s change. Her everyday adventures take place among neighbors in the busy city. The stories focus on Tola’s family life and her ability to meet the challenges that come her way.Five to NineLexile Text Measure 610LATOS Book Level 3.6On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
A Place to Hang the MoonKate AlbusIn 1940, orphaned siblings William, Edmund, and Anna are sent from London to the English countryside during wartime evacuation. Their lawyer hopes they may find a family willing to adopt them, while allowing the three to remain together. Their first placements are difficult: one household overlooks its sons’ bullying, and another expects the children to provide unpaid help. The siblings, all avid readers, turn to the library for refuge. There they meet Mrs. Muller, a kind librarian considered an unsuitable foster parent because her husband was German.Nine to TwelveWord Count 62475On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Dirt Book: Poems About Animals that Live Beneath Our FeetDavid L. HarrisonThis illustrated collection contains fifteen poems about soil: how it forms and the creatures that make their homes below ground. The poems focus on the world underfoot, bringing attention to animals living in dirt and the materials that create soil. Kate Cosgrove’s illustrations accompany the poems, and the book’s vertical format is part of its presentation. Together, the pieces explore underground life through poetry and facts about soil.All readersOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details