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10 best books like Baseball in April and Other Stories (Gary Soto): 13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen, The Composition, Guys Write for Guys Read, Erandi's Braids, Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo, Rocks in His Head, The Bear That Heard Crying, Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear, First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants, Family Pictures / Cuadros de Familia

13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen
AuthorJames Howe
ISBN1416926844
"If thirteen is supposed to be an unlucky number...you would think a civilized society could come up with a way for us to skip it."

-- from "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" by Bruce Coville

No one will want to skip any of the twelve short stories and one poem that make up this collection...
The Composition
AuthorAntonio Skármeta
ISBN0888995504
Winner of the UNESCO Tolerance Awarda and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and an Americas Award Commended Title

Life is simple for Pedro -- he goes to school, does his homework and, most importantly, plays soccer. But when the soldiers come and take his friend Daniel's father away, things...
Guys Write for Guys Read
AuthorJon Scieszka
ISBN0670060275
What is a typical guy moment, anyhow? Daniel Pinkwater remembers the disappointment of meeting his Lone Star Ranger hero up close and personal. Gordon Korman relishes the goofy ultra violence of the old Looney Tunes cartoons. Stephen King realizes that having your two hundred-pound babysitter fart...
Erandi's Braids
AuthorAntonio Hernandez Madrigal
ISBN0698118855
The yellow dress Erandi wants for her birthday will look beautiful with her long, thick braids. But Mama's fishing net is full of holes, and there isn't enough money to buy both a new net and a birthday dress. The only solution lies with the hair buyers from the city. But Mama's hair isn't nearly as beautiful...
Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures with the Family Lazardo
AuthorWilliam Joyce
ISBN0060210745
William Joyce (born 1957) is an American author, illustrator, and filmmaker. Newsweek has called him one of the top 100 people to watch in the current millennium. His paintings are displayed at several national museums and art galleries. He worked in several films in various roles such as conceptual...
Rocks in His Head
AuthorCarol Otis Hurst
ISBN0060294035
Some people collect stamps. Other people collect coins. Carol Otis Hurst's father collected rocks. Nobody ever thought his obsession would amount to anything. They said, "You've got rocks in your head" and "There's no money in rocks." But year after year he kept on collecting, trading, displaying,...
The Bear That Heard Crying
AuthorNatalie Kinsey-Warnock
ISBN0140558543
This is a true story set in New Hampshire. The author is a distant relative of Sarah Whitcher, the little girl whom the story is about.
Sarah is just three years old when she wanders off by herself and becomes lost in the woods. A rescue team was sent out to look for her to no avail. A man comes to town and...
Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear
AuthorLensey Namioka
ISBN0440409179
Everyone in the Yang family is a talented musician except for nine-year-old Yingtao, the youngest Yang. Even after years of violin lessons from his father, Yingtao cannot make beautiful music.

Now that his family has moved from China to Seattle, Yingtao wants to learn English and make new...
First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants
AuthorDonald R. Gallo
ISBN0763632910
"Stories by eleven well-known authors touch on a variety of teen experiences, with enough attitude and angst to speak to young adults anywhere." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

Fleeing from political violence in Venezuela, Amina and her family have settled in the United States. Sarah, adopted,...
Family Pictures / Cuadros de Familia
AuthorCarmen Lomas Garza
ISBN0892392061
Sandra Lomas Garza depicts scenes from her working-class childhood in Family Pictures / Cuadros de Familia She also did this in another similar picture for children (and adults) In My Family/En mi familia.
This year, I am doing an informal study of What Does IT Mean to be Hispanic, my reading thread...
Sunny, Vol. 4
AuthorTaiyo Matsumoto
ISBN1421573407
What is Sunny? Sunny is a car. Sunny is a car you take on a drive with your mind. It takes you to the place of your dreams. Sunny is the story of beating the odds, in the ways that count. It’s the brand-new masterwork from Eisner Award-winner Taiyo Matsumoto, one of Japan’s most innovative and acclaimed...
Beat the Turtle Drum
AuthorConstance C. Greene
ISBN0140368507
Beautiful story. But quite upsetting.

Realistic YA Fiction.

Also a movie.

The plot concerns a family, with two sisters, Cate and Joss. They are more then sisters but also best friends.

One day, Joss, the younger sister is killed in a tragic accident., shattering...
The Silver Pony
AuthorLynd Ward
ISBN0395643775
A wordless children's graphic novel and/or picture book about a farm boy who sees a silver flying horse. Is it real? Well, he tells his Dad, who punishes him for lying. But we know differently. We have actually seen the horse, who carries the boy all across the country, giving him the opportunity to help...
Saving Sweetness
AuthorDiane Stanley
ISBN0698117670
"A rip-roaring tale featuring a big-hearted sheriff, a high-spirited heroine, and a happily ever after ending, all told in the tongue-rattling twang of the Old West."--School Library Journal

Sweetness is the littlest orphan at mean, old Mrs. Sump's orphanage. When she escapes, Mrs. Sump...
Finding Buck McHenry
AuthorAlfred Slote
ISBN0064404692
"Daydreamer Jason, 11, has just been [dropped] from his Little League team. Seeking solace at the baseball-card shop, he makes a startling hypothesis: 'Buck McHenry,' star pitcher [of the Negro Leagues], could be school custodian Mack Henry. Mr. Henry's identity, in doubt through much of the book,...
Every Living Thing
AuthorCynthia Rylant
ISBN0689712634
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” ― Anatole France

Sheesh - I am becoming such a maudlin old broad! I don't know . . . maybe it's just raging hormones, but nearly every story in this collection moved me to tears. Rylant presents twelve very short...
Breaking Through
AuthorFrancisco Jiménez
ISBN0618342486
At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jiménez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home in California, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. In the months...
A Day's Work
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0395845181
Oh dear. So this book arrived by mistake from Amazon. I forget what I had ordered instead. Definitely not this. But Eve Bunting is amazing so I kept it. It's a complicated, kind of sad story told very simply. And it makes me think about all the heavy lifting we have our children do when they read. I look at high...
The Friend
AuthorSarah Stewart
ISBN0374324638
From the beloved husband-and-wife team of The Gardener, a Caldecott Honor Book

Annabelle Bernadette Clementine Dodd
Was a good little girl, though decidedly odd.
Belle lived every day as if she were grown --
She thought she could do everything all on her own.

Lucky for...
Children of War
AuthorDeborah Ellis
ISBN0888999070
USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List


In this book, Deborah Ellis turns her attention to the most tragic victims of the Iraq war -- Iraqi children. She interviews young people, mostly refugees living in Jordan, but also a few who are trying to build new lives in North America....
The Book of Beasts
AuthorE. Nesbit
An enduring story of the magic to be found in books.
Young Lionel is very surprised to be made King, but he's delighted to discover the world full of books in the Palace library. When Lionel opens one called THE BOOK OF BEASTS, he's in for an even greater surprise--out of the pages fly a butterfly and...
Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words
AuthorMargarita Engle
ISBN1481461125
In a haunting yet hopeful novel in verse, award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the story of Antonio Chuffat, a young man of African, Chinese, and Cuban descent who became a champion of civil rights.

Asia, Africa, Europe—Antonio Chuffat’s ancestors clashed and blended on the beautiful...
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