Finding Miracles
9 best books like Finding Miracles (Julia Alvarez): Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women, The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child, Tales from Watership Down, Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South, Lifeboat 12, 1919, Everyday Editing: Inviting Students to Develop Skill and Craft in Writer's Workshop, Storm Catchers, Unbound: A Novel in Verse
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women
| Author | Rey Terciero |
| ISBN | 0316522864 |
Little Women with a twist: four sisters from a blended family experience the challenges and triumphs of life in NYC in this beautiful full-color graphic novel perfect for fans of Roller Girl and Smile.
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are having a really tough year: with their father serving in the...
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
| Author | Francisco Jiménez |
| ISBN | 0826317979 |
These independent but intertwined stories follow a migrant family through their circuit, from picking cotton and strawberries to topping carrots - and back again - over a number of years. As it moves from one labor camp to the next, the little family of four grows into ten. Impermanence and poverty define...
| Author | Richard Adams |
| ISBN | 0380729342 |
Watership Down was one of this century's best-loved works of imaginative literature. Now Richard Adams returns, to tell us what happened to the rabbits after their defeat of General Woundwort.
Tales From Watership Down begins with some of the great folk stories well known to all rabbits....
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
| Author | Anne Moody |
| ISBN | 0385337817 |
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell,...
In the tradition of The War That Saved My Life and Stella By Starlight, this poignant novel in verse based on true events tells the story of a boy’s harrowing experience on a lifeboat after surviving a torpedo attack during World War II.
With Nazis bombing London every night, it’s time for...
| Author | Eve L. Ewing |
| ISBN | 1608465985 |
Poetic reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots that comprised the “Red Summer” of violence across the nation’s cities, is an event that has shaped...
| Author | Jeff Anderson |
| ISBN | 1571107096 |
Editing is often seen as one item on a list of steps in the writing process—usually put somewhere near the end, and often completely crowded out of writer's workshop. Too many times daily editing lessons happen in a vacuum, with no relationship to what students are writing.
In Everyday Editing,...
| Author | Tim Bowler |
| ISBN | 0192754459 |
Fin is devastated by guilt when his sister, Ella, is kidnapped. She is snatched away from the house in the middle of a storm. As the kidnappers make their demands, Fin's guilt is replaced by a fierce determination to find his sister by whatever means he can, and bring the criminals to justice. But as the...
Unbound: A Novel in Verse
| Author | Ann E. Burg |
| ISBN | 0545934273 |
From the award-winning author of All the Broken Pieces and Serafina's Promise comes a new novel-in-verse that is a gripping, transcendent story about a little-known piece of slave history.
The day Grace is called from the slave cabins to work in the Big House, Mama makes her promise to keep...
