Kids Book Index
Katie Kennedy
Rosa and Eddie are among hundreds of teenagers applying to NASA’s secretive Interworlds Agency. They want to join even though they do not know the program’s purpose. When three teens earn places in the agency’s space-mission training program, they discover that the work places them in greater danger than they anticipated.
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This Is Just a TestMadelyn Rosenberg, Wendy Wan-Long ShangIn the autumn of 1983, seventh-grader David Horowitz is shaken after watching a television movie about a nuclear attack. He is also preparing for his bar mitzvah while navigating conflict between his Chinese grandmother, Wai Po, and his Jewish grandmother. David's longtime friend Hector joins him and a new friend, Scott, on a trivia team. After they win, Scott invites David to help build a fallout shelter but excludes Hector, adding another strain to David's friendships and fears.Twelve to FourteenLexile Text Measure 690LATOS Book Level 4.7On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem RenaissanceNikki Grimes, OthersThis poetry collection draws on the Harlem Renaissance and pairs Nikki Grimes’s poems with full-color original art by contemporary African American illustrators. It honors the era’s spirit while reshaping familiar poems into new work connected to present-day African American life. The book brings poetry, visual art, and cultural history together through a modern reflection on the Harlem Renaissance and its continuing influence.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
When I Was a Turkey: Based on the Emmy Award- Winning PBS Documentary My Life as a TurkeyJoe Hutto, with Brenda Z. GuibersonNaturalist Joe Hutto receives a bowl of wild turkey eggs from a local farmer and hatches them. Using imprinting, he raises the flock and spends two years caring for, observing, bonding with, and communicating with the birds. This account of his experience includes pencil drawings and photographs, tracing an unusually close relationship between a naturalist and the wild turkeys in his care.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details