Ages 9 to 10

In his third wilderness adventure, eleven-year-old Buck Bray, along with the rest of The Wild World of Buck Bray TV crew, including the cameraman's daughter, Toni Shoop, heads to Yellowstone National Park to film an episode about its famous geysers and...

As the star of a new kid-oriented wilderness show, eleven-year-old Buck Bray travels to Denali National Park to shoot the first episode. It promises to be an exciting gig and he's happy to get to spend some time with his director father. Buck's annoyed...

Buck and Toni, along with the rest of the Wild World of Buck Bray TV crew, head to Utah's Canyonlands National Park to film an episode about the canyons and rock formations as well as the ancient people who once lived there. When they learn about...

April 1, 1946 - an enormous tsunami wave strikes Hilo, Hawai'i, causing death and destruction. Even those islanders who are fortunate to have survived find their lives forever altered. Young Kimo loves his grandfather very much - they go everywhere...

The Color Collector is a poignant story about newness, friendship, and common ground. When a boy notices the new girl picking up all manner of debris and litter on their walks home from school he wants to know why. So she shows him the huge mural she's...

We've all wished for Someday to get here, and now it is. Follow the tale of the young beaver, Max, and his quest to spend quality time with his parents and family. The tale for the ages and ageless will bring a happy tear of joy and love and a smile to...

From the shore, the ocean looks like clear, sparkling blue but look closely at a small scoop and you'll find the ocean looks more like soup! Our oceans are filled with plastics, from water bottles and take-out containers to the teeny tiny plastic...

Oliver the tortoise has had his human, Ike, for a very, very long time now. In fact, they're the same age--80 years old--and practically twins. They both enjoy the slowness of the garden, cool water from the hose on a hot day, and a nice slice of...

Day One I swam around my bowl. Day Two I swam around my bowl. Twice. And so it goes in this tell-all tale from a goldfish. With his bowl to himself and his simple routine, Goldfish loves his life..until one day... When assorted intruders including a...

This alphabet book brings the topic of economics down to a child's level, using tangible examples and scenarios to explain complex ideas. M is for Money uses snappy rhymes and expository text to introduce subjects ranging from supply and demand to taxes...

As a young boy in Gujarat, India, Kumar sometimes feels like he lives in two worlds. First there is the old world where people and their choices are determined by prejudice and bigotry. But then there is the second, modern world: in this world Kumar can...

Outside Beijing, China, in the year 1572, nine-year-old Hu-Wan tends the vegetable garden with his grandfather. Their specialty is growing gourds that are made into ladles and bowls and sold in the marketplace. Each year, one special gourd is made into a...

Hallie Morse Daggett loved spending time outdoors, hiking among the tall trees of the forests in California's Siskiyou Mountains. She wasn't afraid of the bears, coyotes, and wildcats. But Hallie was afraid of fire and understood the threat it posed to...

To each of us who has enjoyed a piece of birthday cake, the strains of "Happy Birthday to You" are as familiar to our ears as our own names. Yet how many people know the origin of the tune and its place in American history? In 1889 Patty and Mildred...

In 1945, the attention of the United States, along with the rest of the world, was focused on World War II. After more than five years of fighting, downcast, war-weary people were looking for signs of hope of a better future. One April morning, a duck...

When a jazz-loving rooster sets his sights on winning a barnyard talent show, he realizes he can't do it as a solo act. He's up against the talents of Mules Davis's cool duo and Ella Finchgerald's singing group. Acoustic Rooster calls on friends like...

Experts know that sometimes the best way to teach a child what something is is to teach him what it isn't. Educator Wendy Ulmer applies that principle in her jaunty, out-of-the-box alphabet A isn't for Fox: An Isn't Alphabet. Running through the...

Nebraska Book Award, Winner, 2019 Winner! 2019 Nebraska Book Award Retired astronaut Clayton Anderson takes readers on an A to Z flight through the alphabet from astronaut and blastoff to spacewalk and Zulu Time. Topics cover the history of NASA,...

The fabric of America is made up of countless threads weaving together different backgrounds and cultures. Using poetry and expository text, A is for Asian American: An Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Alphabet celebrates the cultures of and...

At one time rainforests covered about 14% of the earth's surface; now they're reduced to just 6%. As home to some of the most diverse plant and animal species ever known, this decline has grave implications for both man and animal kingdoms. A is for...

2020-2021 Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award List Gordy and his family live in Detroit, Michigan, the heart of the United States automobile industry. Every night after coming home from work at one of the plants, Gordy's father teaches him how to...

Meet Three he's a whole number who's still finding his place in the world! Readers will join Three as he learns about the importance of whole numbers and how they help us. Students will learn about place value, naming and comparing numbers, rounding,...

Meet Dorothy Fourteen she lives on a farm in Kansas and struggles with measurement in her daily life. One day, Dorothy is whisked away to Metric Land, where she meets a cast of colorful, mathematical characters. There she learns about the metric system...

Meet Alice Twelve, an ordinary girl from Number City. One day she falls into a rabbit hole and finds herself lost in a magical world full of ratios and proportions. Readers will help her as she solves mathematical problems and meets colorful characters...

Meet the Operations Team together they work to fight crime in Number City! Readers will be introduced to the concepts of functions, comparing quantities, estimation, exponents, and mental math as they explore Number City. Students are invited to test...

After a mischievous dog steals the plans for Geometry World, a group of shapes must team up to rebuild it! Join them on their journey to understand planes, points, shapes, and angles in order to recreate their reality. Readers will learn about different...

Join Three and Eight as they dive into the magical world of Polygon Land! There readers will meet colorful quadrilaterals, circles, triangles, composite figures, and more! Students will learn about methods for calculating the areas, perimeters, and...

Join Fluke Eleven as he sets out to defeat Lord Calculator and sink the Evil Space Station. Along the way, Fluke will learn about equations and how they can help him. Colorful characters will introduce readers to variables, equations, and expressions...

Join the crew of the M.S. Number Line as they explore the mysterious Planet of the Decimals! Through their journey, readers will learn about what decimals represent, decimal models, place value, rounding, fractions, and adding, subtracting, multiplying,...

Three and Eight head to the Mascot Winter Games to explore data and statistics. Unfortunately, the Masked Menace is ruining all the fun. Can you help crack the case with the help of math? Throughout the book, readers will learn a variety of ways to...

Join the crew of the M.S. Number Line as they explore the mysterious Planet of the Fractions! Through their journey, readers will learn to compare, add, subtract, divide, and multiply fractions. Colorful characters and a graphicnovel format help to hook...

Meet Matter they're here to introduce you to the chemistry behind mixtures and solutions. Matter will educate readers about heterogeneous and homogeneous mixtures, colloids, and solubility. The graphicnovel format helps to entertain readers as they...

Meet Atom, a tiny atom who's here to introduce you to the environmental impacts of chemicals. Atom introduces readers to natural cycles and how they're impacted by the byproducts of chemical reactions. Students will learn about human activity that...

Join Atom and Molecule as they journey across the oceans, forests, and skies to learn about how chemistry keeps living organisms alive and functioning. Readers will be introduced to biomolecules and the elements that make up living things. They'll meet...

Join Atom and Molecule as they team up to solve the chemical mystery of the missing Scientist of the Year trophy. In their quest to apprehend a criminal, the two conduct multiple experiments that lead them right to the culprit. Readers will learn about...

Join Atom and Matter on their trip to Chemistry Land, where they'll introduce you to all the ways that chemistry affects your daily life. They'll introduce students to the chemicals and substances that make life easier, such as bug spray, deodorant, and...

Meet Matter they're here to guide you on a journey through the basics of chemistry. Alongside Matter, students will learn about the chemicals that make up all the materials we interact with. Readers will learn about the substances that create their...

Meet Matter they make up everything and is here to introduce you to the 118 chemical elements in the periodic table! Alongside Matter, students will be introduced to the discovery and classification of the elements. They'll journey all the way back to...

Meet Atom, a tiny atom who's here to introduce you to the world of chemical compounds and reactions. Alongside Atom, readers will learn how chemical elements form compounds, the difference between compounds and molecules, and the chemical reactions that...

Meet Matter they're here to introduce you to atoms and molecules. Alongside Matter, students will learn about atoms, chemical elements, atomic numbers, chemical bonds, and the structure of molecules. Readers will learn about the parts of the atom and...