Kids Book Index
Amy Noelle Parks
Seventeen-year-old Evie Beckham loves math and has often been too occupied with anxiety to date. She has also found kissing strange. By her senior year, therapy and friends have helped her feel braver. Evie may be ready to enter a national math and physics competition and to respond when a new boy flirts with her. The story combines romance, quantum theory, mathematics, and anxiety.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
It’s a Numbers Game! BaseballJames Buckley JrThis book examines the numbers calculated throughout a baseball game. It connects hits, balls, strikes, and home runs to mathematical ideas on the field. It also looks at the many statistics used to assess an individual player’s performance and at the precise timing involved when a player tries to steal a base. Baseball actions and records provide the focus for its exploration of math.Grades 6–8On one of the same reading listsView book details
AfterMathEmily Barth IslerLucy is twelve and mourning Theo, her younger brother, who died from a congenital heart condition. Her family relocates to a Virginia community marked by an elementary-school shooting four years earlier. Because she did not experience that event, Lucy finds it hard to discuss her own grief. A developing friendship with an isolated peer, together with mathematics, helps her navigate loss and recovery.Grades 6–8On one of the same reading listsView book details
Uma Wimple Charts Her HouseReif Larsen, illustrated by Ben GibsonUma Wimple loves making charts. A school assignment asks her to chart her own home, but the task troubles her as she tries to decide what makes a house into a home. The story follows Uma’s uncertainty about representing her home for the project, using charts and schoolwork to explore that question.Five to NineLexile Text Measure AD510LATOS Book Level 3.4On one of the same reading listsView book details