Hooray for Anna Hibiscus!

10 best books like Hooray for Anna Hibiscus! (Atinuke): Completely Clementine, EllRay Jakes Is Not a Chicken, The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island, Mikis and the Donkey, Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel, Lola Levine Is Not Mean!, Juana & Lucas, Elizabeti's Doll, Lulu and the Dog from the Sea, Deep in the Sahara

Completely Clementine

Author	Sara Pennypacker
ISBN	1423123581

Summer is coming, and Clementine is not ready. She is not ready to start speaking to her father again, because she’s still mad at him for eating meat. Instead, she has to express her sadness by giving him drawings of animals she knows would not want to be somebody’s dinner.

Then there is the...

EllRay Jakes Is Not a Chicken

Author

Sally Warner

Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes is sick of getting picked on. But every time he tries to defend himself against class bully Jared Matthews, EllRay is the one who winds up in trouble. It's just not fair! Then his dad offers him a deal: If EllRay can stay out of trouble for a week, they'll go to Disneyland! But...

The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island

Author	Dana Alison Levy
ISBN	0553521306

Love the TV show Modern Family? Wait until you meet the family Fletcher! With two dads, four adopted brothers, two cats, and one pug, the Fletchers will have you laughing out loud! 
 
Welcome to Rock Island, Where Time Stands Still!
 
The Fletchers are back on Rock Island, home of...

Mikis and the Donkey

Author	Bibi Dumon Tak
ISBN	0802854303

Another moving animal tale from the award-winning author of Soldier Bear

One day, Mikis’s grandfather has a surprise for him: a new donkey waiting! Mikis falls in love with the creature, but his grandparents tell him that the donkey is a working animal, not a pet. However, they still let Mikis...

Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel

Author	Nikki Grimes
ISBN	0399251758

Dyamonde Daniel may be new in town, but that doesn't stop her from making a place for herself in a jiffy. With her can-do attitude and awesome brain power she takes the whole neighborhood by storm. The only thing puzzling her is the other new kid in her class. He's awfully grouchy - but Dyamonde's determined...

Lola Levine Is Not Mean!

Author	Monica Brown
ISBN	0316258369

Lola loves writing in her diario and playing soccer with her team, the Orange Smoothies. But when a soccer game during recess gets "too competitive," Lola accidentally hurts her classmate Juan Gomez. Now everyone is calling her Mean Lola Levine!

Lola feels horrible, but with the help of her...

Juana & Lucas

Author	Juana Medina
ISBN	0763672084

Fans of Judy Moody and Clarice Bean will love Juana, the spunky young Colombian girl who stars in this playful, abundantly illustrated new series.

Juana loves many things — drawing, eating Brussels sprouts, living in Bogotá, Colombia, and especially her dog, Lucas, the best amigo ever....

Elizabeti's Doll

Author	Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
ISBN	1584300817

Upon the arrival of her new baby brother, Elizabeti decides she needs a doll she can care for the way her mother cares for the new baby. After looking around her village, Elizabeti finds the perfect doll to love, and names her Eva.

When Mama changes the new baby's diaper, Elizabeti changes Eva....

Lulu and the Dog from the Sea

Author	Hilary McKay
ISBN	1407117920

This review also appears on my blog, Read-at-Home Mom.

Lulu and the Dog from the Sea is Hilary McKay’s second adventure about a young animal lover whose compassion for animals in need often leads her into trouble. Set during the summer, this story takes place at the beach, where Lulu and her...

Deep in the Sahara

Author	Kelly Cunnane
ISBN	0375870342

Lalla lives in the Muslim country of Mauritania, and more than anything, she wants to wear a malafa, the colorful cloth Mauritanian women, like her mama and big sister, wear to cover their heads and clothes in public. But it is not until Lalla realizes that a malafa is not just worn to show a woman's...

Princess Cora and the Crocodile

Author	Laura Amy Schlitz
ISBN	0763648221

A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Medalist join forces to give an overscheduled princess a day off and a wicked crocodile a day "on."
Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She's sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She's sick, sick, sick of taking three baths a day. And her parents...

Ling & Ting: Twice as Silly

Author	Grace Lin
ISBN	0316184020

Ling & Ting are twins. They like to be silly. They like to tell jokes. Most of all, they like to laugh together. Laugh with Ling & Ting!

The beloved twins from the Geisel Honor book Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! and Ling & Ting Share a Birthday are back to share their favorite...

Finding Fortune

Author	Delia Ray
ISBN	0374300658

Running away from home isn't as easy as Ren thinks it will be. At least she isn't running very far-just a few miles to the ghost town of Fortune . . . or Mis-Fortune as everyone else calls it. Mis-Fortune on the Mississippi. Supposedly, there's an abandoned school on the outskirts with cheap rooms for rent....

Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion

Author	Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN	1846972558

Well before Precious Ramotswe founded her Number One Ladies' Detective Agency, as an eight-year-old girl she was already solving mysteries. Here, in this delightful, new, enchanting tale for children, we see how the young Precious became the crafty and intuitive private investigator we all know...

The Case of the Mixed-Up Mutts

Author	Dori Hillestad Butler
ISBN	0807509116

I often check out the books that nephew likes to read just to see what he's into and most of the time I end up reading the series he likes, and this was one of those cases; "The Buddy Files" is a fun series to follow. The characters are very likable, especially the book's super-sleuth canine hero, Buddy- he...

Meet Yasmin!

Author	Saadia Faruqi
ISBN	1684360226

Meet Yasmin! Yasmin Ahmad is a spirited second-grader who's always on the lookout for those "aha" moments to help her solve life's little problems. Taking inspiration from her surroundings and her big imagination, she boldly faces any situation, assuming her imagination doesn't get too big, of course!...

Mouse and Mole, Fine Feathered Friends

Author	Wong Herbert Yee
ISBN	0547152221

A Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book
 
It is a blustery spring day, and Mouse and Mole are very excited. They are going to go bird watching! They are planning to make bird books! Mouse and Mole pack paper and crayons and hurry outside. It turns out, birds are not so easy to watch. Splashing in puddles...

Book Uncle and Me

Author	Uma Krishnaswami
ISBN	8184778503

Nine-year-old Yasmin intends to read a book a day for the rest of her life. Book Uncle, who runs a free lending library on the street corner, always has the perfect book for her. But when Book Uncle seems to be in trouble, Yasmin has to take her nose out of her book and do something. With the elections coming...

Dory Dory Black Sheep

Author	Abby Hanlon
ISBN	1101994266

Dory the rascal tackles friendship, losing teeth, and learning to read in a hilarious new chapter book that is perfect for readers of Ivy and Bean
 
School has been pretty good so far. Dory has made a real true friend whose imagination and high spirits as are big as her own. Reading is proving to...