Busing Brewster

9 best books like Busing Brewster (Richard Michelson): Other Words for Home, The Line Tender, Harriet Gets Carried Away, All the World, Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing, Say Something, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms, Bad Gateway, You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!

Other Words for Home

Author

Jasmine Warga

I am learning how to be
sad
and happy
at the same time.

Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati...

The Line Tender

Author	Kate Allen
ISBN	0735231605

The Line Tender is the story of Lucy, the daughter of a marine biologist and a rescue diver, and the summer that changes her life. If she ever wants to lift the cloud of grief over her family and community, she must complete the research her late mother began. She must follow the sharks.

Wherever...

Harriet Gets Carried Away

Author	Jessie Sima
ISBN	1481469118

Harriet loves costumes. She wears them to the dentist, to the supermarket, and most importantly, to her super-special dress-up birthday party. Her dads have decorated everything for the party and Harriet has her most favorite costume all picked out for the big day. There’s just one thing missing—party...

All the World

Author	Liz Garton Scanlon
ISBN	1416985808

The artwork in this poem is beautiful. I love how the sky and the sea seem to roil and roll. This is more a poem than a story. It is little scenes of a family and things they do together and each thing they are doing seems to be all the world. It appears this family is on vacation together, possibly. It looks...

Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing

Author	Dean Robbins
ISBN	0399551859

Margaret Hamilton loved numbers as a young girl. She knew how many miles it was to the moon (and how many back). She loved studying algebra and geometry and calculus and using math to solve problems in the outside world.

Soon math led her to MIT and then to helping NASA put a man on the moon! She handwrote...

Say Something

Author	Peter H. Reynolds
ISBN	0545865034

The world needs your voice.
If you have a brilliant idea...say something!
If you see an injustice...say something!

In this empowering new picture book, beloved author Peter H. Reynolds explores the many ways that a single voice can make a difference. Each of us, each and every day,...

Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms

Author	John Hodgman
ISBN	0525561102

A hilarious and honest new book in which John Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Vacationland, sets out to explore the strange work-land of being a somewhat famous person

After spending most of his twenties pursuing a career as a literary agent, John Hodgman decided to try his own...

Bad Gateway

Author	Simon Hanselmann
ISBN	1683962079

So, if you have read all or even some of Simon Hanselmann’s Megg and Mogg stories, almost nothing in Bad Gateway will be surprising. What began as a stoner comic remains a stoner comic, with a gradual veering over time toward tragedy. Things catch up with you if you live this life for a number of years....

You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!

Author	Alex Gino
ISBN	0545956242

Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister Emma is born Deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn.

A big fantasy reader, Jilly connects with another fan, Derek, who is a Deaf Black ASL user. She goes to Derek for advice but doesn't always know the best way to ask for...