Books like Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps
By Charlotte Watson Sherman
In Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps, a girl slips on her tail, finds a shipwreck with more plastic bags than fish, and grabs her spear and net to fix it. Your kid gets to be the hero who saves the ocean, not just hears about one. Here's what to hand them next.
A girl who loves running isn't allowed on her school's track team, so when officials say women can't handle the Boston Marathon's distance, she sets out to prove them wrong.
A decommissioned aircraft carrier, the USS Oriskany, is stripped down and sunk off the coast of Florida, transforming from a retired warship into the world's largest artificial reef.
A confident Black boy affirms everything he is — creative, funny, brave, sometimes afraid, always resilient — celebrating his own worth in a string of joyful, declarative statements.
If your kid liked being the one kid who noticed the trash, Little Rebels by Yuyi Morales is for the kid who notices everything and says so.
A quiet, lonely boy discovers he alone can see dragons, and as they appear in great numbers, he realizes it falls to him to lead them home to the wilderness.
Harlem Grown by Tony Hillery takes the same small-act-turns-into-a-movement shape, just plants it in a vacant lot instead of a tide pool.
An original poem celebrates girls and girlhood in all their forms, honoring how girls have shaped history while calling them to stand together and march boldly into the future.
A fearless young woman falls in love with flying after her first airplane ride, then defies people who scoff at her dreams to become a pilot with the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II.
A boy troubled by erosion and vanishing trees on his river island in India begins planting bamboo — and over the years, one person's quiet effort grows into a 1,300-acre forest.
Quieter and slower than Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney, but it ends in the same place: one person deciding to leave the world prettier.
Monarch butterflies leave Canada each fall and fly all the way to Mexico, crossing snow-capped mountains and deserts to reach the forests their ancestors once called home.
A vivid tour of animal groups on land, air, and sea — packs, herds, pods, and swarms — showing how working together helps each species survive, humans included.
