Kids Book Index
Patricia Forde
Fourteen-year-old Aria comes from Terros, a planet whose people populated Earth with humans centuries earlier to study their experiences. Sent with her scientist father on a mission that will destroy Earth’s people, she discovers that she has human DNA. Raised to consider humans inferior, Aria encounters their capacity for love and must choose between her own world and Earth’s survival.
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More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and FreedomYohuru Williams, Michael G. LongThis account traces the 1963 March on Washington from its earliest concept through its planning and the day it took place. It follows debates over Bayard Rustin’s organizing role, Anna Arnold Hedgeman’s push for women speakers, and the response to John Lewis’s proposed remarks. The narrative also addresses friction with the Kennedy administration, practical planning challenges, and uncertainty over whether people would attend. Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long present the event’s complicated path to the march.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Learning to Be Wild: How Animals Achieve Peace, Create Beauty, and Raise FamiliesCarl SafinaLearning to Be Wild explores social learning and culture among animals, presenting them as capacities not limited to people. Ecologist Safina joins field scientists studying chimpanzees, sperm whales, and macaws, providing vivid details from their research. It considers animal cultures through the ways animals raise families, create beauty, and achieve peace. This young readers edition of Becoming Wild contains black-and-white photographs and follows the scientists’ work with these three animal groups.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The In-BetweenKatie Van HeidrichThis free-verse memoir has Katie, a biracial teenager, recalling the time after her family’s latest eviction. Katie, her sister and brother, and their divorced mother move into a single room at an extended-stay motel. The account describes the disruption of moving, whether it unfolds slowly or demands that belongings be gathered in seconds. Family photographs accompany the memoir. It records a family living in temporary housing after eviction.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details