Deborah Kerbel
Author
Language
English
Description
A Junior Library Guild Pick!
Opposite Identicals is an upper middle grade novel set in the very near future – a time when climate change has irreversibly altered our planet and lifestyles. Nova and Joule are fourteen-year old twins whose scientist parents have recently uprooted the family from their urban home and moved to the country on a year–long research assignment, studying the effects of GMO 'SuperCrop' farming on the environment in the...
2) Next Door
Author
Language
English
Description
A sweet wordless story about a boy's unexpected encounters in his neighborhood.
In this wordless picture book, a Deaf boy and his mother enjoy a walk through their community, greeting neighbors, spying a bird's nest in a tree, buying cookies at the grocery store. Later, they visit their new neighbors, a woman and her daughter, who are recent immigrants to the country. Although the girl is shy, and the two kids speak different languages - American...