Kids Book Index
Nancy Tandon
Twelve-year-old Parker has grown up at his family’s Home Away Inn on Spruce Point, a wooded peninsula in Maine. His friend Frankie returns to the inn each summer, and their adventures use a nearby old treehouse as a headquarters. When a curse threatens the family motel, Parker must unravel it before supernatural disorder destroys the place his family calls home.
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Two TribesEmily Bowen CohenMia has been raised by her Jewish mother and stepfather since her Muskogee father separated from her mother when Mia was three. Feeling disconnected from her Indigenous heritage and out of place at school, she uses money from her bat mitzvah to travel secretly to Oklahoma and visit her father. There, Mia seeks knowledge of her family and Native traditions while working out how to embrace her Jewish and Muskogee identities together.Twelve to FourteenLexile Text Measure 420LATOS Book Level 2.9On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Mystery of the Monarchs: How Kids, Teachers, and Butterfly Fans Helped Fred and Norah Urquhart Track the Great Monarch MigrationBarb RosenstockThis picture-book account follows entomologist Fred Urquhart and his wife, Norah, as they investigate where monarch butterflies spend the winter. The Urquharts developed butterfly tags and called on people across the United States and Canada, including schoolchildren, to capture, tag, release, and report monarchs. Their collected information helped them trace the butterflies’ migration to their winter home in Mexico.Five to NineLexile Text Measure AD760LATOS Book Level 4.9On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Yuck You Suck! Poems about Animals That SIP, SLURP, SUCKJane Yolen, Heidi E. Y. StempleThis collection of animal poems turns its attention to creatures that bite, slurp, cling, or suck. Its pages include ticks, mosquitoes, stingrays, elephants, jellyfish, and lampreys. By gathering animals with very different bodies and behaviors around these actions, the book presents a playful look at some of the ways animals feed or interact with the world. The poems place familiar and less familiar creatures together, with the lamprey among the animals highlighted for its sucking behavior.All readersOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details