Climbing the Stairs
10 best books like Climbing the Stairs (Padma Venkatraman): The Pox Party, Cleopatra's Moon, Queen of the Sea, Flygirl, Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary, If I Ever Get Out of Here, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Keeping Corner, Mom's Cancer, Salem Brownstone: All Along the Watchtowers
Author | M.T. Anderson |
ISBN | 0763624020 |
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother -- a princess in exile from a faraway land -- are the only persons in their household assigned names....
Author | Vicky Alvear Shecter |
ISBN | 0545221307 |
This book utterly blew me away. The research that went into it was obviously extensive and i was so glad to see that it was so historically accurate. I've always been fascinated by Cleopatra and ancient Egypt, but i would often get frustrated when authors portray the great queen as a promiscuous sex symbol...
Author | Dylan Meconis |
ISBN | 1536204986 |
Cult graphic novelist Dylan Meconis offers a rich reimagining of history in this hybrid novel loosely based on the exile of Queen Elizabeth I by her sister, Queen Mary.
When her sister seizes the throne, Queen Eleanor of Albion is banished to a tiny island off the coast of her kingdom, where the...
Author | Sherri L. Smith |
ISBN | 0399247092 |
Ida Mae Jones dreams of flight. Her daddy was a pilot and being black didn't stop him from fulfilling his dreams. But her daddy's gone now, and being a woman, and being black, are two strikes against her.
When America enters the war with Germany and Japan, the Army creates the WASP, the Women Airforce...
Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
ISBN | 0670011894 |
An inspiring look at the fight for the vote, by an award-winning author Only 44 years ago in the U.S., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a fight to win blacks the right to vote. Ground zero for the movement became Selma, Alabama.
Award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge leads you straight...
If I Ever Get Out of Here
Author | Eric Gansworth |
ISBN | 0545417309 |
Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him -- people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town...
Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
ISBN | 0763665312 |
A stirring collection of poems and spirituals, accompanied by stunning collage illustrations, recollects the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a champion of equal voting rights.
"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within...
Author | Kashmira Sheth |
ISBN | 0786838590 |
Pretty as a peacock, twelve-year-old Leela has been spoiled all her life. She doesn't care for school and barely marks the growing unrest between the British colonists and her own countrymen. Why should she? Her future has been planned since her engagement at two and marriage at nine.Leela's whole...
Author | Brian Fies |
ISBN | 0810958406 |
How does one deal when the only parent you have left is diagnosed with cancer? Brian Fies created a web comic to deal with the looming death of loved one.
This book is the complete collection of the strips from the orginal Eisner Award winning web comic. This is a physical copy of something that...
Author | John Harris Dunning |
ISBN | 1406320528 |
A mundane life takes a strange and magical turn in this rich gothic fantasy told with vivid black-and-white art -- a graphic novel perfect for a Halloween night.
As he twists the key and slowly creeps into the grand mansion left to him in his father's will, Salem Brownstone has an eerie feeling...
Author | Brian Ralph |
ISBN | 1770460551 |
You wake up in the rubble and see a ragged, desperate one-armed man greeting you. He takes you underground to a safe space, feeds you, offers you a place to sleep, and then announces that he'll take the first watch. It's not long before the peril of the jagged landscape has located you and your newfound protector...
Author | Supriya Kelkar |
ISBN | 9352755340 |
In 1942, when Mahatma Gandhi asks Indians to give one family member to the freedom movement, ten-year-old Anjali is devastated to think of her father risking his life for the freedom struggle.
But it turns out he isn't the one joining. Anjali's mother is. And with this change comes many more...
Author | Mitali Perkins |
ISBN | 0374304904 |
4 Stars
A book about five complex Indian women and their relationship with culture and race?? How is nobody talking about this gem??
Starting in the 1960s and working towards modern day, this follows a young Bengali family as they move to NYC-- notably Ranee and her children, Tara and...
Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
ISBN | 0142300241 |
Dorothea Lange's desperate and beautiful pictures of migrant workers in California and her heartbreaking photographs of Japanese Americans interned during World War II put human faces on some of the darkest episodes in America's history. Restless Spirit is an intimate portrait of a woman who struggled...
The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes
Author | Duncan Tonatiuh |
ISBN | 1419721305 |
Award-winning author Duncan Tonatiuh reimagines one of Mexico’s cherished legends. Princess Izta had many wealthy suitors but dismissed them all. When a mere warrior, Popoca, promised to be true to her and stay always by her side, Izta fell in love. The emperor promised Popoca if he could defeat...
Author | Jewell Parker Rhodes |
ISBN | 0316043079 |
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a heartbreaking and uplifting tale of survival in the face of Hurricane Katrina.
Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown...
Author | Rachel Lindsay |
ISBN | 1455598542 |
A graphic memoir about the treatment of mental illness, treating mental illness as a commodity, and the often unavoidable choice between sanity and happiness.
In her early twenties in New York City, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Rachel Lindsay takes a job in advertising in order to secure...
Taking Turns: Stories from Hiv/AIDS Care Unit 371
Author | M.K. Czerwiec |
ISBN | 0271078189 |
In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taking Turns pulls back the curtain on life in the ward.
A shining example of excellence...