Dark Water Rising

5 best books like Dark Water Rising (Marian Hale): In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Bud, Not Buddy, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board, The Bicycle Spy

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Author	Bette Bao Lord
ISBN	0064401758

Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams. Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn...

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Author

Mildred D. Taylor

Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she's black—to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It...

Bud, Not Buddy

Author	Christopher Paul Curtis
ISBN	0385323069

It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:

He has his own suitcase full of special things.

He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better...

Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

Author	Bethany Hamilton
ISBN	1416503463

They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could one explain the passion that drives her to surf? How else could one explain that nothing—not even the loss of her arm—could come between her and the waves? That Halloween morning in Kauai, Hawaii, Bethany responded to the shark’s...

The Bicycle Spy

Author	Yona Zeldis McDonough
ISBN	0545850959

Can Marcel make the ride of his life?
Marcel loves riding his bicycle, whether he's racing through the streets of his small town in France or making bread deliveries for his parents' bakery. He dreams of someday competing in the Tour de France, the greatest bicycle race. But ever since Germany's...