Around the World
10 best books like Around the World (Matt Phelan): Sidekicks, Bake Sale, A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return, Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory, Compass South, How Mirka Met a Meteorite, To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel, One Dead Spy, The Underground Abductor (An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman), Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller
| Author | Dan Santat |
| ISBN | 0439298199 |
INTRODUCING: METAL MUTT! STATIC CAT! AND... FLUFFY!?!
Captain Amazing, hero of Metro City, is so busy catching criminals that he rarely has time for his pets at home. He doesn't even notice when they develop superpowers of their own.
So when he announces that he needs a sidekick, his...
| Author | Sara Varon |
| ISBN | 1596437405 |
Cupcake's life is pretty good. He's got his bakery, and his band, and his best friend, Eggplant. His days are full of cooking, socializing, and playing music. But lately, Cupcake has been struggling in the kitchen. He's sure the solution to all his problems is out there somewhere. But maybe that solution...
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return
| Author | Zeina Abirached |
| ISBN | 0761385681 |
When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut...
| Author | George O'Connor |
| ISBN | 1596434333 |
There's only one thing Zeus, the king of the Gods, is afraid of. It isn't the many-headed Hydra or the towering Gigantes. It isn't his powerful, jealous brother Poseidon, the god of the seas. Monsters, gods, Titans—none of them make the mighty Zeus blink an eye.
The only thing Zeus fears is...
| Author | Hope Larson |
| ISBN | 0374300437 |
It’s 1860 in New York City. When 12-year-old twins Alexander and Cleopatra’s father disappears, they join the Black Hook Gang and are caught by the police pulling off a heist. They agree to reveal the identity of the gang in exchange for tickets to New Orleans. But once there, Alex is shanghaied to...
| Author | Barry Deutsch |
| ISBN | 1419703986 |
The last time I read a comic book, uh, I mean
graphic novel
(in sophisticated fonts) was ages ago when they were still simply called comic books. I almost forgot how enjoyable they were until this cute book. It’s a witty, charming and really funny middle school story about Mirka, an 11 year old...
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
| Author | Siena Cherson Siegel |
| ISBN | 0689867476 |
The Sibert Honor–winning graphic memoir about the dreams and realities of becoming a ballerina.
Ballerinas are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six—and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico,...
Alternate cover edition here.
Nathan Hale, the author’s historical namesake, was America’s first spy, a Revolutionary War hero who famously said “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country” before being hanged by the British. In the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales...
| Author | Nathan Hale |
| ISBN | 1419715364 |
Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people. But north of the Mason-Dixon line, slavery was illegal. If she could run away and make it north...
| Author | Joseph Lambert |
| ISBN | 1423113365 |
«My heart is singing for joy this morning! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!»Helen Keller lost her ability to see and hear before she turned two years old.
But in her lifetime, she learned to ride horseback and dance the foxtrot....
| Author | Ashley Spires |
| ISBN | 1554535026 |
While in hot pursuit of an alien invader (a bug), Binky accidentally falls out the space station porthole (bathroom window) and finds himself in outer space (outside) for the very first time. But just as Binky begins to explore, he discovers that his copilot, Ted (stuffed mousie), is trapped beneath...
