Kids Book Index
Jeremy Tankard, Hermione Tankard
Yorick and Bones are an unlikely pair: Yorick speaks in a Shakespearean style, while Bones is a hungry dog who communicates by chomping. Bones digs Yorick up, beginning the companions’ antics. The book frames their encounter with playful references to Shakespeare’s “poor Yorick.” Vibrant, colorful illustrations depict the pair and their comic misadventure.
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The Wish and the PeacockWendy S. SworeTwelve-year-old Paige lives with her family on a small vegetable farm in Idaho. A year after her father’s death, financial pressure leads her mother to agree to sell the farm. Paige has been trying to save it and makes plans to interfere with the sale. Her efforts grow out of grief, concern for her family, and attachment to their home.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Pixie Pushes OnTamara BundySet on a family farm in the American heartland during the 1940s, this novel portrays a young girl whose life changes when her sister contracts polio. Pixie faces painful, complicated lessons in the aftermath of her sister’s illness. Family and friends support her as she adjusts to the upheaval. The book combines this farm-family crisis with moments of humor.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Your Place in the UniverseJason ChinBeginning with four eight-year-olds looking through a telescope, this picture book measures people against increasingly larger things: an ostrich, giraffe, redwoods, skyscrapers, and mountains. It then shifts from height to distance, moving outward through space to the Milky Way, Andromeda, clusters of galaxies, and the universe. Through these comparisons, it introduces relative size, distance, and basic astronomy and physics, using the children as a point of reference.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details