3rd Grade

Mae Jemison's childhood imagination and scientific ambition come together in a picture-book biography about looking upward and reaching farther.

A Black family searches for safety, dignity, and permanence in a historically grounded story about where belonging can be built.

Night sounds and close observation guide a child through darkness, wonder, and the reassurance of shared experience.

Drawing instruction and close looking become a playful invitation to notice the individuality, structure, and life of trees.

Water, movement, and memory shape a visually driven story about displacement, safety, and the meaning of carrying home with you.

A meditation on what makes a home stretches from one family's shelter to a wider network of care, memory, and place.

Land, sound, and shared experience shape a story that invites young readers to notice ecology, culture, and connection together.

A girl explores kinship, adornment, and cultural pride in a story that ties beauty and belonging to community knowledge.

A child notices the different versions of a parent visible in public and at home, then comes to understand both as part of a fuller love.

Celestial imagery and land-centered observation create a lyrical story about relation, wonder, and the living world after dark.