Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun's Kung Fu
10 best books like Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun's Kung Fu (Emily Arnold McCully): Pop's Bridge, Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei, Flossie and the Fox, Fa Mulan: The Story of a Woman Warrior, She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story, Leonardo and the Flying Boy, The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story, Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen, Dad, Jackie, and Me, Thy Friend, Obadiah
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0152047735 |
The Golden Gate Bridge. The impossible bridge, some call it. They say it can't be built.
But Robert's father is building it. He's a skywalker--a brave, high-climbing ironworker. Robert is convinced his pop has the most important job on the crew . . . until a frightening event makes him see that...
| Author | Peter Sís |
| ISBN | 0374470278 |
"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." -- Galileo Galilei
In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man--a genius--and the first to turn the telescope to the...
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
| ISBN | 0803702507 |
Flossie and the Fox is an interesting take on Little Red Riding Hood. This is the tale of Flossie from Tennessee who is entrusted to take eggs to the McCutchin farm because a fox is scaring the hens. On her trip to the farm, Flossie meets the fox who introduces himself to Flossie as the fox...the only thing...
Fa Mulan: The Story of a Woman Warrior
| Author | Robert D. San Souci |
| ISBN | 0786814217 |
Who cares if Disney used this story for one of their mindless features...
(sorry, it just rubbed me the wrong way that this was even mentioned).
This is a very old Chinese story of a warrior woman who, at the time women were prohibited from serving in the Khan's army, pretended to be a man (to...
She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story
| Author | Audrey Vernick |
| ISBN | 0061349208 |
"A wonderful picture book biography. Little girls will be inspired."*
Effa always loved baseball. As a young woman, she would go to Yankee Stadium just to see Babe Ruth’s mighty swing. But she never dreamed she would someday own a baseball team. Or be the first—and only—woman ever inducted...
| Author | Laurence Anholt |
| ISBN | 0764152254 |
There were no spaceships or airplanes when Zoro was a boy. He lived in Italy during the era we now call the Renaissance, a time when the sky belonged to the birds. But one unusual man dreamed of incredible flying machines. "One day, Zoro," he told his pupil, "people will sail through the clouds and look down...
| Author | Rebecca Hickox Ayres |
| ISBN | 0823415139 |
Poor Maha! Her jealous stepmother makes her do all the housework while her selfish stepsister lazes about.
Since Maha's father is away fishing most of the time, there is no one to help or comfort her. All that begins to change when Maha finds a magical red fish. In return for sparing his life, the...
| Author | Marissa Moss |
| ISBN | 0689863292 |
An ALA Notable Children’s Book
An ILA Teachers’ Choice
A Read Aloud/Comstock Honor Book
An ALA Amelia Bloomer Project Book
For as long as she could remember, Jackie Mitchell’s father had told Jackie she could be good at whatever she wanted, as long as she worked at it. Jackie...
| Author | Myron Uhlberg |
| ISBN | 1561453293 |
"It was Opening Day, 1947. And every kid in Brooklyn knew this was our year. The Dodgers were going to go all the way!"
It is the summer of 1947 and a highly charged baseball season is underway in New York. Jackie Robinson is the new first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers--and the first black player in...
| Author | Brinton Turkle |
| ISBN | 0140503935 |
An interesting story about a seagull that befriends or follows around a little boy, Obadiah. Everyone notices and teases him and the boy doesn’t like it, but when the bird is not there, Obadiah misses him.
I didn’t think the artwork was especially Caldecott worthy. The story is simple and...
| Author | M.T. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0763625620 |
George Frideric Handel was not your everyday eighteenth-century composer. And in a manner befitting its subject, this witty, rigorously researched, and accessible biography captures Handel's essential spirit — from a child who smuggled a clavichord into the attic to make music against his father's...
Grampa's menagerie of pets are rubbed the wrong way when a needy little critter arrives in this lighthearted chapter book.
Grampa Bender wouldn't be able to run the Bed and Biscuit animal boardinghouse without the help of Ernest the pig, Gabby the mynah bird, and Milly the cat. In fact, the three...
| Author | Odds Bodkin |
| ISBN | 0152163506 |
Here is my blackboard response on The Crane Wife and Dawn, two traditional tales on the same theme that were quite relevant and depressing after screwing up big time with a physically and intellectually beautiful girl this summer.
What They Were About (NECESSARY SPOILER ALERTS)
The...
| Author | James Rumford |
| ISBN | 1596435429 |
What was made of rags and bones, soot and seeds? What took a mountain to make?
For the answer, travel back to the fifteenth century—to a time when books were made by hand and a man named Johannes Gutenberg invented a way to print books with movable type.
Written as a series of riddles and illustrated...
Now in many ways Bruce Robertson's Marguerite Makes a Book does a truly wonderful job with both meticulous detail and engagement showing and demonstrating how a hand-painted (illuminated) Mediaeval book is (or more to the point how such a tome generally was) created, was made (and indeed also why these...
| Author | David Macaulay |
| ISBN | 0395822793 |
A pigeon carrying an important message takes the reader on a unique tour through Rome. As we follow the path of this somewhat wayward bird, we discover that Rome is a place where past and present live side by side. It is a city that has been recycling itself for two thousand years, but unlike a museum, Rome...
| Author | Wilhelmina Harper |
| ISBN | 0525467858 |
Wilhelmina Harper's The Gunniwolf is a classic-beloved by readers, storytellers, and teachers. Unavailable for years, it is back with fabulous new illustrations by Barbara Upton, perfect for our time. Its vibrant, rhythmic read-aloud text-sprinkled with dialect-tells the story of Little Girl,...
| Author | Gavin Curtis |
| ISBN | 0689841159 |
Reginald loves to create beautiful music on his violin. But Papa, manager of the Dukes, the worst team in the Negro National League, needs a bat boy, not a "fiddler," and traveling with the Dukes doesn't leave Reginald much time for practicing.
Soon the Dukes' dugout is filled with Beethoven,...
| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0698117670 |
"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...
| Author | Amy Young |
| ISBN | 0142402729 |
Once there was a ballerina named Belinda. Belinda loved to dance, but she had two big problems: her left foot and her right foot. When people made fun of her, Belinda decided to give up dance forever. But what will she do without it? With her determination and spirit, she finds a way to continue doing what...
| Author | Steve Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0618152431 |
Steve Jenkins details the many interesting and unique defense mechanisms animals use to escape from danger in this nonfiction/informational picture book. The cut out paper collages as the illustrations are interesting and beautifully done. It was one of the first things that caught my eye about...
| Author | James Mayhew |
| ISBN | 1860397069 |
1. Awards the book has received (if any)
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2. Appropriate grade level(s)
Pre-K to 1st grade
3. Original summary (be succinct -- no more than 3 sentences)
When Katie's grandmother falls asleep during one of their museum visits Katie starts talking to the Mona...
| Author | Michael O. Tunnell |
| ISBN | 0688128785 |
Nowadays it's no big deal for a girl to travel seventy-five miles. But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed. There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a...
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
| Author | Kathleen Krull |
| ISBN | 0152020985 |
Before Wilma Rudolph was five years old, polio had paralyzed her left leg. Everyone said she would never walk again. But Wilma refused to believe it. Not only would she walk again, she vowed, she'd run. And she did run--all the way to the Olympics, where she became the first American woman to earn three...
