Kids Book Index
Heidi Heilig
Sixteen-year-old Nix travels across centuries and around the world aboard her father’s time-traveling ship. She can help him return to Honolulu in 1868, where he hopes to reunite with his wife, who died long ago. But changing that past may erase Nix’s own birth. The novel moves among modern New York City, nineteenth-century Hawaii, and places of myth and legend.
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Irena’s Children: A True Story of CourageTilar J. MazzeoThis nonfiction account documents Irena Sendler’s work with the underground movement in Warsaw during World War II. Sendler and others help save 2,500 Jewish children from Nazi persecution, many from the Warsaw Ghetto. The narrative follows their efforts in chronological order and also introduces several of the people who work alongside Irena, including Jewish participants. Many children are placed with Polish Christian families. The book concludes by following the later fates of Irena and key collaborators and includes an adapter’s note and endnotes.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild WestCandace FlemingThis biography examines the life of Buffalo Bill Cody by questioning familiar stories about him. It considers whether he rode for the Pony Express, his connection to the Battle of Little Bighorn, and conflicting accounts of his actions toward Native Americans. The book distinguishes legend from documented history while exploring Cody’s actual role in the Pony Express, the battle, and Native American rights. Archival images accompany this portrait of a figure closely associated with the American West.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo series)Rick RiordanAfter angering Zeus, the god Apollo is expelled from Olympus and transformed into a mortal teenage boy in New York City. A mysterious attacker besieges the Greek demigods’ camp on twenty-first-century Long Island. Now weak and disoriented, Apollo must confront the danger threatening the camp and try to save it. The premise brings Greek gods and demigods into a contemporary setting.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details