Kids Book Reviews by Grade Level

Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna

Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna

By Joseph Lemasolai-Lekuton

51 ratings1 reviews

Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton gives American kids a firsthand look at growing up in Kenya as a member ...
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Thanks to Nicki (American Girl (Quality))

Thanks to Nicki (American Girl (Quality))

By Ann Howard Creel

51 ratings1 reviews

Ten-year-old Nicki Fleming is about to start fifth grade. She has spent the summer on her Colorad...
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Rage

Rage

By Jackie Morse Kessler

0 ratings1 reviews

Sixteen-year-old Missy copes with being an outcast at school and stress at home by cutting hersel...
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Becoming Billie Holiday

Becoming Billie Holiday

By Carole Boston Weatherford

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Before the legend of Billie Holiday, there was a girl named Eleanora. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave b...
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Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities

Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities

By Mike Jung

51 ratings1 reviews

Can knowing the most superhero trivia in the whole school be considered a superpower?If so, Vince...
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The Sandman: The Story of Sanderson Mansnoozie (The Guardians of Childhood)

The Sandman: The Story of Sanderson Mansnoozie (The Guardians of Childhood)

By William Joyce

3.333 ratings1 reviews

The second picture book in Academy Award winner William Joyce’s The Guardians of Childhood series...
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Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly

Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly

By Alan Madison

0 ratings1 reviews

It's hard to be Velma, the littlest Gratch, entering the first grade. That's because everyone has...
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Zora and Me

Zora and Me

By Victoria Bond, T. R. Simon

4.52 ratings1 reviews

Winner of the 2011 John Steptoe New Talent (Author) Award!Racial duplicity threatens an idyllic A...
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Caldecott Honor Book)

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Caldecott Honor Book)

By Peter Sís

51 ratings1 reviews

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER"I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side―the Communist...
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