Dash
10 best books like Dash (Kirby Larson): A Diamond in the Desert, Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse, Gaijin: American Prisoner of War, Rescue on the Oregon Trail, The Sasquatch Escape, Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands, The Madman of Piney Woods, The House That Jane Built: A Story about Jane Addams, Crossing Niagara: The Death-Defying Tightrope Adventures of the Great Blondin, The Most Amazing Creature in the Sea
| Author | Kathryn Fitzmaurice |
| ISBN | 0670012920 |
For Tetsu, baseball is so much more than just a game
On December 6, 1941, Tetsu is a twelve-year-old California boy who loves baseball. On December 7, 1941, everything changes. The bombing of Pearl Harbor means Tetsu's Japanese-American family will be relocated to an internment camp.
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| Author | Tamera Will Wissinger |
| ISBN | 0547820119 |
Using a wide variety of poetic forms – quatrains, ballads, iambic meter, rhyming lists, concrete poetry, tercets and free verse –this debut author tells the story of a nine-year-old boy’s day of fishing. Sibling rivalry, the bond between father and son, the excitement – and difficulty --...
| Author | Matt Faulkner |
| ISBN | 1423137353 |
San Francisco, 1941: America has just declared war on Japan.
With a white mother and a Japanese father, Koji Miyamoto quickly learns that his home is no longer a welcoming one. Streetcars won't stop for Koji, and his classmates accuse him of being an enemy spy. When a letter arrives from the government...
Meet Ranger! He's a time-traveling golden retriever who has a nose for trouble . . . and always saves the day!
Ranger has been trained as a search-and-rescue dog, but can't officially pass the test because he's always getting distracted by squirrels during exercises. One day, he finds a mysterious...
| Author | Suzanne Selfors |
| ISBN | 0316209341 |
I would like to say that I have read this, but alas I have not been given the chance. I won this in a Goodreads giveaway and when it came in the mail my 10yo son grabbed it and read it. He liked it so much that he did his next book report on it. His friends liked his report so much they borrowed it. We finally got it...
| Author | Katherine Roy |
| ISBN | 1596438746 |
Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them—just thirty miles from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge!
A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants...
| Author | Christopher Paul Curtis |
| ISBN | 0545156645 |
No author hits it out of the park every time. No matter how talented or clever a writer might be, if their heart isn’t in a project it shows. In the case of Christopher Paul Curtis, when he loves what he’s writing the sheets of paper on which he types practically set on fire. When he doesn’t? It’s like...
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0805090495 |
I really admire Jane Addams. For a semester in college (in-between majoring in English literature and psychology) I took classes in sociology and studied her in depth. I either learned more from this book, or more likely relearned some of what I learned back then. She was a remarkable woman.
This...
| Author | Matt Tavares |
| ISBN | 0763668230 |
Applaud Matt Tavares’s latest feat — a gripping tale of real-life daredevilry perfectly balanced by stunning illustrations.
"Monsieur Blondin is to cross Niagara Falls this afternoon, or perish in the attempt." — Troy Daily Times, June 30, 1859
When the Great Blondin announced...
The Most Amazing Creature in the Sea
| Author | Brenda Z. Guiberson |
| ISBN | 0805099611 |
No doubt about it, this book contains a lot of amazing sea creatures! Guiberson did an excellent job of selecting animals with unique properties and abilities. I was thinking " wow! " at every one. My vote for the most amazing, I think, goes to the box jellyfish, because I'm still trying to wrap my head around...
| Author | Sarah Lean |
| ISBN | 0007455038 |
"My name is Cally Louise Fisher and I haven't spoken for thirty-one days. Talking doesn’t always make things happen, however much you want them to."
When Cally Fisher sees her dead mother, real as anything, no one believes her. So Cally stops talking – what’s the point if no one is listening?
The...
| Author | Cynthia C. DeFelice |
| ISBN | 0374380015 |
Erik is preparing for his first-ever hunting trip when he learns that his parents are being deployed to Iraq. A few days later, Erik is shipped off to North Dakota to live with Big Darrell and Oma, grandparents he barely knows. When Erik rescues a dog that's been stuck by a porcupine, Big Darrell says Erik...
Newbery Honor–winner Joan Bauer's newest protagonist always sees the positive side of any situation—and readers will cheer him on!
Jeremiah is the world’s biggest baseball fan. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport....
| Author | Gill Lewis |
| ISBN | 1442414456 |
The majestic Osprey is an endangered bird that hasn’t been seen in Scotland for years, so when Iona McNair locates an Osprey nest, she’s desperate to keep the bird safe from poachers. She shares her secret with her classmate Callum, and the two become friends as they work to save the Osprey they’ve...
| Author | Jennifer L. Holm |
| ISBN | 0553510398 |
Newbery Honor Book Turtle in Paradise is beloved by readers, and now they can return to this wonderful world through the eyes of Turtle’s cousin Beans.
Grown-ups lie. That’s one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest...
| Author | Andrew Clements |
| ISBN | 1416938869 |
Benjamin Pratt’s school is about to become the site of a new amusement park. It sounds like a dream come true! But lately, Ben has been wonder if he’s going to like an amusement park in the middle of his town—with all the buses and traffic and eight dollar slices of pizza. It’s going to change everything....
| Author | Phil Bildner |
| ISBN | 0374301301 |
Rip and Red are best friends whose fifth-grade year is nothing like what they expected. They have a crazy new tattooed teacher named Mr. Acevedo, who doesn't believe in tests or homework and who likes off-the-wall projects, the more "off" the better. They also find themselves with a new basketball coach:...
| Author | Elise Primavera |
| ISBN | 0803738226 |
Fans of Mary Poppins will love this whimsical tale of a boarding school for children of very busy parents, where an extraordinary headmistress teaches them life lessons about courage, adventure, friendship . . . and the importance of birthday cake.
Nestled inside a lighthouse, Great Rapscott...
| Author | Elise Broach |
| ISBN | 0805082700 |
Marvin lives with his family under the kitchen sink in the Pompadays’ apartment. He is very much a beetle. James Pompaday lives with his family in New York City. He is very much an eleven-year-old boy. After James gets a pen-and-ink set for his birthday, Marvin surprises him by creating an elaborate...
| Author | Sarah Weeks |
| ISBN | 0545846609 |
Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL.
Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own.
Ravi's family just moved to America from India, and he's finding...
