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10 best books like Crossing Bok Chitto (Tim Tingle): Sylvia & Aki, All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom, Tea with Milk, Jingle Dancer, Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story, Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing, Shi-shi-etko, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot, Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation, My People

Sylvia & Aki
AuthorWinifred Conkling
ISBN1582463379
Sylvia never expected to be at the center of a landmark legal battle; all she wanted was to enroll in school.

Aki never expected to be relocated to a Japanese internment camp in the Arizona desert; all she wanted was to stay on her family farm and finish the school year.

The two girls certainly...
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
AuthorAngela Johnson
Experience the joy of Juneteenth in this celebration of freedom from the award-winning team of Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis.

Through the eyes of one little girl, All Different Now tells the story of the first Juneteenth, the day freedom finally came to the last of the slaves in the South. Since...
Tea with Milk
AuthorAllen Say
ISBN0395904951
Tea with milk highlights the struggle of a young girl who moves from San Francisco to Japan with her family. Being raised up in a place like San Francisco, it becomes really difficult for her to get accustomed with the norms of traditional Japan and out of frustration she leaves her parents’ home and...
Jingle Dancer
AuthorCynthia Leitich Smith
Tink, tink, tink, tink, sang cone-shaped jingles sewn to Grandma Wolfe's dress.

Jenna's heart beats to the brum, brum, brum, brum of the powwow drum as she daydreams about the clinking song of her grandma's jingle dancing.

Jenna loves the tradition of jingle dancing that has been...
Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story
AuthorS.D. Nelson
ISBN1419703552
This fascinating picture book biography tells the childhood story of Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born around 1839. Through her true story, readers will learn what it was like to be part of this Native American community that lived along the Missouri River in the Dakotas, a society that depended...
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
AuthorJames Rumford
ISBN0618369473
The story of Sequoyah is the tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea—to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of readers and writers. The task he set for himself was daunting. Sequoyah knew no English and had no idea how to capture speech on paper....
Shi-shi-etko
AuthorNicola I. Campbell
ISBN0888996594
Winner of the Anskohk Aboriginal Children's Book of the Year Award. Finalist for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award

In just four days young Shi-shi-etko will have to leave her family and all that she knows to attend...
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
AuthorSy Montgomery
ISBN0618494170
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds—the largest and most unusual parrots on earth—have suffered devastating population loss.

Now, on an island refuge with...
Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
AuthorAndrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN0060821183
This story begins with shoes.
This story is all for true.
This story walks. And walks. And walks.
To the blues.

Rosa Parks took a stand by keeping her seat on the bus. When she was arrested for it, her supporters protested by refusing to ride. Soon a community of thousands was coming...
My People
AuthorLangston Hughes
ISBN1416935401
Langston Hughes' powerful and simple poem is brilliantly accompanied by Charles R. Smith's transcendent photographs. Each photograph illustrates the beauty, depth and soul of being an African-American today. From close ups of lined hands to the joy of a baby's giggle, the photographs span ages....
So Far from the Sea
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0395720958
Laura Iwasaki and her family are paying what may be their last visit to Laura's grandfather's grave. The grave is at Manzanar, where thousands of Americans of Japanese heritage were interned during World War II. Among those rounded up and taken to the internment camp were Laura's father, then a small...
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (砂漠に咲いたひまわり) Japanese/ English Bilingual
AuthorAmy Lee-Tai
ISBN0892392150
Under the harsh summer sun, Mari's art class has begun. But it's hard to think of anything to draw in a place where nothing beautiful grows—especially a place like Topaz, the internment camp where Mari's family and thousands of other Japanese Americans have been sent to live during World War II. Somehow,...
Awful Ogre's Awful Day
AuthorJack Prelutsky
ISBN0060774592
I'm an awful, awful ogre,

Absolutely awful ogre.

I'm so awful, Awful Ogre

Is my awful ogre name ...

Awful Ogre is huge, hungry, horrible –– and totally lovable. Larger than life, Awful Ogre packs into one day enough excitement, imagination, emotion, and sheer...
Hidden Roots
AuthorJoseph Bruchac
ISBN0439353580
Hidden Roots tells the story of 11-year-old Sonny, a shy boy whose father's sudden rages are becoming more and more frequent. The love of his fragile mother, the support and protection of his Uncle Louis, and an unexpected friendship with a librarian help Sonny gain the confidence to confront hidden...
The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos
AuthorLucia M. Gonzalez
ISBN0892392223
It is the winter of 1929, and cousins Hildamar and Santiago have just moved to enormous, chilly New York from their native Puerto Rico. As Three Kings' Day approaches, Hildamar and Santiago mourn the loss of their sunny home and wonder about their future in their adopted city. But when a storyteller and...
Belle, The Last Mule at Gee's Bend: A Civil Rights Story
AuthorCalvin Alexander Ramsey
ISBN0763640581
A true story inspires the moving tale of a mule that played a key role in the civil rights movement-- and a young boy who sees history anew.

Sitting on a bench waiting for his mother, Alex spies a mule chomping on greens in someone's garden, and he can't help but ask about it.""Ol Belle?" says Miz...
Coolies
AuthorYin
ISBN0142500550
Shek marvels at the new world as he and his brother, Little Wong, arrive in California. Along with hundreds of other workers, the brothers are going to build a great railroad across the West. They plan to save enough money so that their mother and little brothers can join them in America. But as days grow...
America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell
AuthorDon Brown
ISBN1596436948
One of School Library Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011
One of Horn Book's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011

On the ten year anniversary of the September 11 tragedy, a straightforward and sensitive book for a generation of readers too young to remember that terrible day.

The...
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
ISBN0803728603
When four courageous black teens sat down at a lunch counter in the segregated South of 1960, the reverberations were felt both far beyond and close to home. This insightful story offers a child's-eye view of this seminal event in the American Civil Rights Movement. Connie is used to the signs and customs...
The People Shall Continue
AuthorSimon J. Ortiz
ISBN0892390417
I read the 40th Anniversary edition which includes what I believe to be an added note from the author, Simon J. Ortiz He gives us a summary of the history of the People (or what many think of as Native Americans). This book is the perfect mentor text to introduce young students to the struggles of the People...
Steamboat School
AuthorDeborah Hopkinson
ISBN1423121961
Missouri, 1847

When James first started school, his sister practically had to drag him there. The classroom was dark and dreary, and James knew everything outside was more exciting than anything he'd find inside.

But his teacher taught him otherwise.

"We make our own light...
The Unbreakable Code
AuthorSara Hoagland Hunter
ISBN0873586387
This is a wonderful tale that explains the legacy of the Navajo Code Talkers, but in a way that is conversational and easy to understand for children. The story is told as part of a conversation between and grandfather (who was a code talker) and his grandson. While the back story is not entirely necessary,...
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