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10 best books like Goal! (Mina Javaherbin): Louisa: The Life of Louisa May Alcott, Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story, Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems, 14 Cows for America, Ruth and the Green Book, The Boys, Farm, Growing Up Pedro: How the Martínez Brothers Made It from the Dominican Republic All the Way to the Major Leagues, I Lost My Tooth In Africa, Mama Panya's Pancakes: A Village Tale from Kenya

Louisa: The Life of Louisa May Alcott
AuthorYona Zeldis McDonough
ISBN0805081925
When Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was published in 1868 it was an instant success. Louisa drew on her experiences in writing the novel, but there's a lot more to her rags-to-riches story. Louisa came from a family that was poor but freethinking, and she started teaching when she was only seventeen...
Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story
AuthorS.D. Nelson
ISBN0810983990
Told from the Native American point of view, Black Elk’s Vision provides a unique perspective on American history.   From recounting the visions Black Elk had as a young boy, to his involvement in the battles of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee, as well as his journeys to New York City and Europe with...
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems
AuthorMarilyn Singer
ISBN0525479015
What’s brewing when two favorites—poetry and fairy tales—are turned (literally) on their heads? It’s a revolutionary recipe: an infectious new genre of poetry and a lovably modern take on classic stories. First, read the poems forward (how old-fashioned!), then reverse the lines and read...
14 Cows for America
AuthorCarmen Agra Deedy
ISBN1561454907
In June of 2002, a ceremony begins in a village in western Kenya. Hundreds of Maasai surround an American diplomat to bestow a gift on the American people. The gift is as unsought and unexpected as it is extraordinary. A mere nine months have passed since the September 11 attacks, and hearts are raw. Tears...
Ruth and the Green Book
AuthorCalvin Alexander Ramsey
ISBN0761352554
In the not so distant past, traveling America's highways was not easy for the black motorist. Many restaurants, hotels, and even gas stations refused service to African Americans. In 1936, Victor Green, an African American from New York, listed all the businesses that would serve black travelers...
The Boys
AuthorJeff Newman
ISBN1416950125
This wordless picture book tells the story of a quiet boy working to overcome his shyness and finding the courage to play baseball with the other kids in the park... With the help of a few old timers from the nearby park bench, our boy is coaxed out of his shell and into the game. Beautifully illustrated,...
Farm
AuthorElisha Cooper
ISBN0545070759
Society of Illustrators 2006 Gold Medal recipient, Elisha Cooper, captures the smell, taste, and feel of the changing seasons on a farm.

Society of Illustrators 2006 Gold Medal recipient, Elisha Cooper, captures the smell, taste, and feel of the changing seasons on a farm.
There is so...
Growing Up Pedro: How the Martínez Brothers Made It from the Dominican Republic All the Way to the Major Leagues
AuthorMatt Tavares
ISBN0763668249
The love between brothers is key to Matt Tavares’s tale of Dominican pitcher Pedro Martinez, from his days of throwing rocks at mangoes to his years as a major-league star.

Before Pedro Martinez pitched the Red Sox to a World Series championship, before he was named to the All-Star team eight...
I Lost My Tooth In Africa
AuthorPenda Diakité
ISBN0439662265
Coretta Scott King Honor author/artist Baba Wague Diakite and his 12-year-old daughter, Penda, create a charming, original adventure story about losing a first tooth while visiting family in Mali.

More than anything, Amina wants to lose her loose tooth while visiting her family in Mali,...
Mama Panya's Pancakes: A Village Tale from Kenya
AuthorMary Chamberlin
ISBN1905236646
As she and her son Adika make their way to market to buy the flour and chili pepper she needs to make pancakes, Mama Panya is dismayed at the number of people Adika invites to join them at their meal. With only two coins in her pocket, how will she feed so many people...?

A lovely picture-book, with...
Imogene's Last Stand
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN0375836071
Meet Imogene Tripp, a plucky girl with a passion for history. As a baby, her first words were "Four score and seven years ago." In preschool, she finger-painted a map of the Oregon Trail. So it's not surprising that when the mayor wants to tear down the long-neglected Liddleville Historical Society to...
The Case of the Lost Boy
AuthorDori Hillestad Butler
ISBN0807509108
"My name is King. I am a dog. I am also a detective."



King has a very big mystery to solve. His family is missing, and he's been put in the P-O-U-N-D. Why doesn't his beloved human (Kayla) come to get him? When King is adopted by Connor and his mom, things get more confusing. The new family...
The Hallelujah Flight
AuthorPhil Bildner
ISBN0399247890
The extraordinary story of James Banning, the first African-American pilot to fly across country 

During the Great Depression, the ace black pilot James Banning decided to fly from coast to coast to serve as an inspiration to people everywhere. So with a little ingenuity and a whole lot of...
The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According To Susy)
AuthorBarbara Kerley
ISBN0545125081
From the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor-winning team behind WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALICE?, a humorous and intimate portrait of the most celebrated writer in America, as told by his thirteen-year-old daughter.
"This is a frank biographer and an honest one; she uses no sandpaper on me." - Mark Twain

An...
Amazing Faces
AuthorLee Bennett Hopkins
ISBN1600603343
Quite wonderful. The illustrations are not a perfect fit to my taste, and 16 poems is not enough, but I do think this has a place in every school. My favorite poem is Jane Medina's "Me x 2" about a girl who is bilingual, and the picture reflects her pride in being able to "cry time two... try times two...." I'd...
Take Me Out to the Yakyu
AuthorAaron Meshon
ISBN1442441771
Join one little boy and his family for two ballgames—on opposite sides of the world!

You may know that baseball is the Great American Pastime, but did you know that it is also a beloved sport in Japan? Come along with one little boy and his grandfathers, one in America and one in Japan, as he learns...
April and Esme: Tooth Fairies
AuthorBob Graham
ISBN0763646830
Two young tooth fairies make their first lost-tooth collection in Bob Graham's warm, whimsical tale.

A Junior Library Guild Selection. April Underhill, seven-year-old tooth fairy, gets a call on her cell phone. This is it! Her first tooth collection. April and her little sister, Esme, must...
The Duchess of Whimsy
AuthorRandall de Sève
ISBN0399250956
The great New Yorker artist Peter de Seve teams up with the author of bestselling Toy Boat in a slightly outrageous fairy tale. The Duchess of Whimsy is fancy and fussy—and definitely not ordinary—surrounding herself with wild friends, fabulous foods, and fancy dress. The Earl of Norm (ho hum)...
The Shape of My Heart
AuthorMark Sperring
ISBN1599909626
This is the shape of us,
the shape of you and me
This is the shape of our eyes,
and this is the world that we see...

From sun up to sun down, from our hands and our feet, to animals, cars, food, and teddy bears, the world is alive with endless shapes to identify. Once you start to look, who...
Play, Louis, Play!: The True Story of a Boy and His Horn
AuthorMuriel Harris Weinstein
The childhood of Louis Armstrong was as fascinating as the great musician himself-and this chapter book biography tells it like never before. Play, Louis, Play! is written from the point of view of Louis' closest companion throughout his youth-his horn! In a jazz-inflected, exuberant voice, this...
Desmond and the Very Mean Word
AuthorDesmond Tutu
ISBN0763652296
Based on a true story from Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s childhood in South Africa, Desmond and the Very Mean Word reveals the power of words and the secret of forgiveness.

When Desmond takes his new bicycle out for a ride through his neighborhood, his pride and joy turn to hurt and anger when a...
Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin
AuthorDuncan Tonatiuh
ISBN0810938723
From first-time Mexican author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh comes the story of two cousins, one in America and one in Mexico, and how their daily lives are different yet similar. Charlie takes the subway to school; Carlitos rides his bike. Charlie plays in fallen leaves; Carlitos plays among the...
Same, Same But Different
AuthorJenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
ISBN0805089462
Elliot lives in America, and Kailash lives in India. They are pen pals. By exchanging letters and pictures, they learn that they both love to climb trees, have pets, and go to school. Their worlds might look different, but they are actually similar. Same, same. But different!

Through an inviting...
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