Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever
10 best books like Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever (Jim Murphy): The Woman in the White Kimono, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger, Taproot, Crawl Space, Beatrice's Goat, For Black Girls Like Me, Wildflowers of Terezin, The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius, Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin, Encounter
The Woman in the White Kimono
| Author | Ana Johns |
| ISBN | 0778308146 |
Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.
Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community,...
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
| Author | Soraya Chemaly |
| ISBN | 1501189557 |
A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change.
Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why.
We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive, or not sensitive enough. Too...
| Author | Keezy Young |
| ISBN | 1941302467 |
Blue is having a hard time moving on. He's in love with his best friend. He's also dead. Luckily, Hamal can see ghosts, leaving Blue free to haunt him to his heart's content. But something eerie is happening in town, leaving the local afterlife unsettled, and when Blue realizes Hamal's strange ability...
| Author | Jesse Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1927668417 |
In the basement, through the appliances and past the veil that separates realities, lies a rainbow-hued world where a group of kids have found retreat from their suburban mundanity with a coterie of iridescent creatures. But in the fraught realm of adolescence, can friendship survive the appeal of...
| Author | Page McBrier |
| ISBN | 0689869908 |
More than anything, Beatrice longs to be a schoolgirl. But in her small African village, only children who can afford uniforms and books can go to school. Beatrice knows that with six children to care for, her family is much too poor. But then Beatrice receives a wonderful gift from some people far away...
| Author | Mariama J. Lockington |
| ISBN | 0374308047 |
I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark.
Makeda June Kirkland is eleven years old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out. When Makeda's family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, she leaves...
| Author | Robert Elmer |
| ISBN | 1426701926 |
Wildflowers of Terezin is a sweeping historical novel set against a backdrop of danger. A Danish Lutheran pastor’s complacent faith is stretched to the breaking point during World War II when he meets a young Jewish nurse Hanne Abrahamsen and becomes deeply involved in Resistance efforts to save...
When George Ohr's trove of pottery was discovered in 1967, years after his death, his true genius was discovered with it. The world could finally see how unique this artist really was!
Born in 1856 in Biloxi, Mississippi, George grew up to the sounds of the civil war and political unrest.When...
| Author | James L. Swanson |
| ISBN | 0545723337 |
An astonishing account of the assassination of America's most beloved and celebrated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, by NY Times bestselling author, James L. Swanson.
NAACP Image Award Nominee
Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book...
When Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492, what he discovered were the Taino Indians. Told from a young Taino boy’s point of view, this is a story of how the boy tried to warn his people against welcoming the strangers, who seemed more interested in golden ornaments than...
| Author | Deanna Caswell |
| ISBN | 1419718894 |
Guess Who, Haiku is a unique poetic guessing game illustrated by bestselling and beloved artist Bob Shea. Author Deanna Caswell’s playful take on the inventive Japaense form of poetry offers clues about the creatures hiding on every page in this creative and clever picture book of charmingly illustrated...
| Author | Richard Byrne |
| ISBN | 1627794514 |
One day Bella and Ben bounce clean out of their own story book and so begins a fun adventure as they travel through all sorts of different books, from counting to comic books, to find their way back.
I really enjoyed reading this - it stretches the conventional story book boundaries and gives the...
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
| Author | Caren Stelson |
| ISBN | 1467789038 |
This striking work of narrative nonfiction tells the true story of six-year-old Sachiko Yasui's survival of the Nagasaki atomic bomb on August 9, 1945, and the heartbreaking and lifelong aftermath. Having conducted extensive interviews with Sachiko Yasui, Caren Stelson chronicles Sachiko’s...
ガンバレ! 中村くん! ! [Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!!]
| Author | Syundei |
| ISBN | 4863496338 |
「どうしよう 好きだ 大好きだ」
ちょっとおかしな高校生、中村くんが
同級生の広瀬くんに一目ボレ!?
まだ友達にもなってないのに…ドキドキがとまらない!!
ニュー80'sの新鋭"春泥"が送る、
粘着系男子の片想いが暴走するサバイバル☆ラブコメディ!!.
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0399231161 |
Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together.
With the addition of a brand-new author's...
