Kids Book Index
Jane Yolen
This collection of poems approaches the world below ground through science, exploration, and verse. Its underground expedition considers the hidden realm beneath people’s feet. The poems present what lies below as a subject for discovery, combining an adventure framework with scientific attention. Rather than remaining on the surface, the book imagines the activity and mystery within the earth underneath us.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
Still a FamilyBrenda Reeves SturgisA young girl and her parents lose their home and must live in homeless shelters. Shelter rules mean that the girl and her mother stay apart from her father, who lives in a men’s shelter. The family’s daily circumstances are shaped by this separation, but the story emphasizes that family connection is not limited to living in one place. Childlike drawings depict their experience of homelessness and their effort to remain a family.All readersLexile Text Measure AD500LATOS Book Level 2.6On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
A Whisper of HorsesZillah BethellSerendipity is an orphaned girl living inside a walled city in a future where horses no longer exist. Before her mother died, she gave Seren a horse figurine. When Seren finds a map that might lead to real horses, she leaves the city with another orphan, Tab, and his dog. Their journey carries them far from what Seren knows, while a powerful man tries to ensure that she cannot escape the city. The search centers on the possibility that the last horses on Earth remain.All readersOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
WatersongTim McCannaA fox is caught in a storm and looks for a place to shelter. The story follows the animal through the sounds and movement of the natural world, using onomatopoeia as the storm unfolds. As the weather presses around the fox, the search for cover drives this brief nighttime encounter with rain, wind, and the surrounding landscape.All readersOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details