Kids Book Index
Magnus Myst, illustrated by Thomas Hussung
This interactive book places the reader inside its story through puzzles, riddles, and funny but eerie tales. Its narrator addresses the reader directly and invites them to help with mischief, even suggesting they be bad or evil. The book combines problem-solving activities with a plot in which the reader has an active role rather than remaining only an observer.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
The Road to AfterRebekah LowellThis novel in verse follows two young sisters and their mother after they flee an abusive home. Away from their father, the family begins to learn how to live without fear. The girls make friends and find comfort in art and the natural world as they adjust to a new life. The story focuses on recovery after abuse, the family’s changing circumstances, and the solace the sisters find in creative expression and nature.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
All Through the Night: Important Jobs That Get Done at NightPolly Faber, illustrated by Harriet HobdayIn a city, a young girl completes her evening routine while her mother prepares to leave for work. As the night continues, the mother's trip introduces people whose jobs keep the city functioning, including nurses, cleaners, delivery workers, doctors, police officers, and journalists. The book places the girl's bedtime alongside the work undertaken by many people during the same nighttime hours.Kindergarten to Second GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky: The Graphic NovelKwame Mbalia, illustrated by Olivia StephensThis graphic-novel adaptation features a Black boy who uses storytelling to help folk heroes and gods. It transforms the children’s novel that opened the Tristan Strong trilogy into a visual narrative. African and African American characters appear in the book, where storytelling brings its central boy into contact with heroic figures and deities.Kids Favorites — 6th–8th GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details