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10 best books like Go and Come Back (Joan Abelove): The Stone Goddess, Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary, Have Fun, Anna Hibiscus!, Estrella's Quinceanera, I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, Seek, The Goats, God Went to Beauty School, The Adventures of Blue Avenger, Carver: A Life in Poems

The Stone Goddess
AuthorMinfong Ho
ISBN0439381983
Award-winning author Minfong Ho tells the story of Nakri's struggles during the Communist takeover of Cambodia in the 1980s.

Twelve-year-old Nakri's beloved home in Cambodia is shattered when the nation's capital is overrun by government rebels. Her family is forced to flee, and she and...
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary
AuthorElizabeth Partridge
ISBN0670011894
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...
Have Fun, Anna Hibiscus!
AuthorAtinuke
ISBN1610670086

Anna Hibiscus was a little girl who lived in Africa. She lived in a big white house with her whole family. Her cousins, her aunties and uncles, her mother and father and her Grandmother and Grandfather. Everybody in Anna's family was born in Africa, including Anna. Everybody except Anna's mother....
Estrella's Quinceanera
AuthorMalin Alegria
ISBN0689878109
For as long as Estrella Alvarez can remember, her mother has been planning to throw her an elaborate quinceañera for her fifteenth birthday -- complete with a mariachi band, cheesy decorations, and a hideous dress. Just thinking about her quince makes Estrella cringe. But her mother insists that...
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0142405558
3 soft snickerdoodles.

Cover Love: No, but I saw there were several editions of this book and many other great covers.

Why I Wanted to Read This:
My library has a bunch of Jacqueline Woodson books and I keep meaning to read some of them. I saw mention of this one in an article so I went...
Seek
AuthorPaul Fleischman
ISBN0689854021
Assigned to write his autobiography, high school senior Rob Radkovitz decides to "listen" back on his life. As he remembers the voices of his younger self, his quirky family, and his closest friends, one stands apart -- the haunting voice of his long-absent father, left behind on a single tape from one...
The Goats
AuthorBrock Cole
ISBN0374425752
Fifteenth anniversary of the classic

On the fifteenth anniversary of the publication of The Goats, Farrar, Straus and Giroux is proud to reissue a new paperback edition featuring Brock Cole’s original hardcover jacket art as well as the black-and-white pen-and-ink chapter openings.


A...
God Went to Beauty School
AuthorCynthia Rylant
ISBN0060094354
A deeply compelling collection of poems about God and our everyday world from a Newbery medalist.

Cynthia Rylant takes teens on an invigorating spiritual journey as she explores what God's life on Earth might be like. Rylant's reflective and often humorous verse follows God as he tries out...
The Adventures of Blue Avenger
AuthorNorma Howe
ISBN0064472256
On his sixteenth birthday, David Schumacher changes his name to Blue Avenger. . .

And things start to happen. Within twenty-four hours, David becomes a national hero, starts dating an extraordinary girl named Omaha Nebraska Brown, and bakes an imperfect pie. And that's not all. A tiny sow...
Carver: A Life in Poems
AuthorMarilyn Nelson
ISBN1886910537
George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department...
Hothouse
AuthorChris Lynch
If you do it right, it can be a life. The hothouse, the guys, the glory. But just like that, it can all go up in smoke. In the beginning it was strange, ya know, because of all that we had lost. But there was something about it that felt so good and so right, too: "I'm so proud of you, Russ." "We'll always be here...
The Braid
AuthorHelen Frost
ISBN0374309620
Two sisters, Jeannie and Sarah, tell their separate yet tightly interwoven stories in alternating narrative poems. Each sister - Jeannie, who leaves Scotland during the Highland Clearances with her father, mother, and the younger children, and Sarah, who hides so she can stay behind with her grandmother...
How to Get Suspended and Influence People
AuthorAdam Selzer
ISBN0385733690
It all starts with an assignment. Leon's "gifted and talented" class has to make educational videos for the sixth and seventh graders. Leon originally chooses "sex ed" as his subject in the hopes of showing a flash of boob. But as time goes on, his project starts to mean something. He wants to tell the younger...
The Catalogue of the Universe
AuthorMargaret Mahy
Angela and Tycho seem an unlikely pair -- she is beautiful and confident, he is awkward and quietly intellectual. They have long shared a passion for deciphering the universe outside their own personal struggles. Like the great philosophers they study, to Angela and Tycho it seems the universe can...
Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters
AuthorJeannine Atkins
ISBN0805089349
As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series.

Sara Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own...
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote
AuthorAnn Bausum
ISBN0792276477
To hear her tell it, Ann Bausum was inspired to write this book because of a childhood introduction to Alice Paul ("it's her strong gaze, more than anything else, that I've remembered . . . Plenty of flame remained in her eyes.") In With Courage and Cloth, Bausum pays tribute to the sacrifices and struggles...
Keeper of the Night
AuthorKimberly Willis Holt
ISBN0553494414
Isabel's mother died peacefully. At least that's what Isabel likes to think since no one in her family will talk about the truth. But in spite of their avoidance, in spite of their brave faces, the truth has a way of revealing itself at night, in her family's behavior. Her father sleeps curled up on the floor...
How Angel Peterson Got His Name
AuthorGary Paulsen
ISBN0440229359
When you grow up in a small town in the north woods, you have to make your own excitement. High spirits, idiocy, and showing off for the girls inspire Gary Paulsen and his friends to attempt:
• Shooting waterfalls in a barrel • The first skateboarding • Jumping three barrels like motorcycle...
The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In
AuthorPaisley Rekdal
ISBN0375409378
"Witty, original, and authentic. A fresh,
young Chinese-American voice."
--Adeline Yen Mah,
author of Falling Leaves

As the daughter of a Chinese-American mother and a Norwegian father, Paisley Rekdal grew up wondering where she fit in. The essays in this, her shimmering...
A War of Witches : A Journey into the Underworld of the Contemporary Aztecs
AuthorTimothy J. Knab
ISBN0788195867
"A War of Witches is an astonishing account of a world of magic and sorcery that echoes the deepest roots of Aztec mysticism. What begins as an innocent ethnographic encounter ends in a revelation as Knab uncovers the ghoulish dimensions of a blood feud that has left dozens of sorcerers dead."
--...
Four Stupid Cupids
AuthorGregory Maguire
ISBN0064410722
When four reckless mythical flying babies break loose from the ancient urn Fawn's aunt sent her from Greece, the boys in Miss Earth's class squirm in their seats -- and the girls start scheming. With the help of these cupids, the girls' Tattletales club could make Valentine's Day perfect for their heartbroken...
Lowji Discovers America
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN0689862997
Dear Jamshed,

America is not so different from what we thought. I told you I wouldn't see a single cowboy riding across the plain, and I haven't.

I have not even seen a plain.

Still, there are some silver linings. They are:

1.) Trapper and King, the cat and dog who live...
Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song
AuthorKathryn Erskine
Miriam Makeba, a Grammy Award–winning South African singer, rose to fame in the hearts of her people at the pinnacle of apartheid―a brutal system of segregation similar to American Jim Crow laws. Mama Africa, as they called her, raised her voice to help combat these injustices at jazz clubs in Johannesburg;...
Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti
AuthorFrances Temple
ISBN0064471365
Every Life
Makes a Story

Djo has a story: Once he was one of "Titid's boys," a vital member of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide's election team, fighting to overthrow military dictatorship in Haiti. Now he is barely alive, the victim of a political firebombing.

Jeremie has a story:...
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