Book Uncle and Me

10 best books like Book Uncle and Me (Uma Krishnaswami): Betty Before X, The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole, Let the Children March, Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere, Lola Levine Is Not Mean!, Ban This Book, The Story of Diva and Flea, Fuzzy, Anything But Ordinary Addie: The True Story of Adelaide Herrmann, Queen of Magic, Flutter and Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido: Animal Poems / Poemas de Animales

Betty Before X

Author

Ilyasah Shabazz

A powerful middle-grade novel about the childhood activism of Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X’s wife, written by their daughter.

In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-old Betty’s house doesn’t quite feel like home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can’t shake the feeling that her mother...

The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole

Author

Michelle Cuevas

A girl's friendship with a lonely black hole leads her to face her own sadness.

When eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez shows up at NASA to request that her recording be included in Carl Sagan's Golden Record, something unexpected happens: A black hole follows her home, and sets out to live in...

Let the Children March

Author	Monica Clark-Robinson
ISBN	0544704525

I couldn't play on the same playground as the white kids. 
I couldn't go to their schools.  
I couldn't drink from their water fountains.  
There were so many things I couldn't do. 

In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to...

Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere

Author	Barb Rosenstock
ISBN	0316393827

The suspenseful, little-known true story of two determined pioneers who made the first dive into the deep ocean.

On June 6, 1930, engineer Otis Barton and explorer Will Beebe dove into the ocean inside a hollow metal ball of their own invention called the Bathysphere.

They knew...

Lola Levine Is Not Mean!

Author	Monica Brown
ISBN	0316258369

Lola loves writing in her diario and playing soccer with her team, the Orange Smoothies. But when a soccer game during recess gets "too competitive," Lola accidentally hurts her classmate Juan Gomez. Now everyone is calling her Mean Lola Levine!

Lola feels horrible, but with the help of her...

Ban This Book

Author	Alan Gratz
ISBN	0765385562

-Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Stand up and cheer, book lovers. This one's for you.- --Kathi Appelt, author of the Newbery Honor-winning The Underneath

An inspiring tale of a fourth-grader who fights back when her favorite book...

The Story of Diva and Flea

Author	Mo Willems
ISBN	1484722841

Diva, a small yet brave dog, and Flea, a curious streetwise cat, develop an unexpected friendship in this unforgettable tale of discovery.

For as long as she could remember, Diva lived at 11 avenue Le Play in Paris, France. For as long as he could remember, Flea also lived in Paris, France-but...

Fuzzy

Author	Tom Angleberger
ISBN	1419721224

When Max—Maxine Zealster—befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, part of Vanguard One Middle School’s new Robot Integration Program, she helps him learn everything he needs to know about surviving middle school—the good, the bad, and the really, really, ugly. Little do they know that...

Anything But Ordinary Addie: The True Story of Adelaide Herrmann, Queen of Magic

Author	Mara Rockliff
ISBN	0763668419

Be astonished and dazzled by the true story of Adelaide Herrmann, the Queen of Magic!

Some girls are perfectly happy never doing anything out of the ordinary. But Addie was anything but ordinary. She longed for thrills and excitement! At a time when a young lady appearing onstage was considered...

Flutter and Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido: Animal Poems / Poemas de Animales

Author	Julie Paschkis
ISBN	1627791035

This is a book of poems by Julie Paschkis. All the poems are about animals. The poems are written in both English and Spanish. Because the poems are simple and they are about a wide variety of interesting animals, they would appeal to younger children. Many of the poems are alliterative or rhyming and they...

Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America

Author	Teri Kanefield
ISBN	1419725785

The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. He envisioned something else: a multi-racial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. He believed that such an America would be a land of opportunity for the poor and the newcomers....