Kids Book Index
Tara Sullivan
A young girl must find a way to help her family survive in a desolate and impoverished Bolivian silver mining community in this eye-opening tale of resilience.Twelve-year-old Ana wants nothing more than to escape the future set for her and her classmates in her small mining village.
Amber and ClayLaura Amy SchlitzSet in Ancient Greece, this epic novel in verse traces the converging journeys of two children, a slave and an aristocratTwelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Once upon a CamelKathi AppeltAn old camel braves a desert storm to save two lost chicks.Twelve to FourteenLexile 820LATOS 5.6On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
View from Pagoda HillMichaela MacCollSet in the late 1800s, here is the story of Ning, a Chinese American girl who struggles to find her place in the world when she is forced to leave her home in Shanghai to go live in America with a father she barely knows.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details