Diane Dillon
10) The secret river
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Young Calpurnia takes her dog, Buggy-horse, and follows her nose to a secret river in a Florida forest, where she catches enough fresh fish to feed her hungry neighbors, even after giving some to the forest creatures she meets on the way home.
12) Blast off
Author
Publisher
New York Review Children's Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her friends tease her for dreaming of being an astronaut, a young African American girl uses discarded items to make a spaceship for her interstellar journey.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When young Elana unexpectedly joins the team leaving the spaceship to study the planet Andrecia, she becomes an integral part of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one centered on the third planet from the star in its own solar system.
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