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10 best books like Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm (Jacob Grimm): Gracias The Thanksgiving Turkey, American Fairy Tales, I Hear Your Voice, Shackleton's Journey, Moonhead and the Music Machine, That's That: A Memoir, Tru & Nelle: A Christmas Tale, It All Comes Down to This, Frida: ¡Viva La Vida! Long Live Life!, Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football's Make-Or-Break Moment

Gracias The Thanksgiving Turkey
AuthorJoy Cowley
ISBN0590469770
Text-to-World
Somewhere in the world, at this exact moment, there is a little boy or girl living with his grandparents and aunt, waiting for his or her father or mother to come home from work. In this light- hearted, realistic fiction book, “Gracias, The Thanksgiving Turkey,” this is part...
American Fairy Tales
AuthorL. Frank Baum
ISBN0486236439
In Chicago, an ordinary key unlocks a magical trunk packed with robbers and a pie. In Boston, five magical bon-bons make an ordinary senator, an ordinary professor, an ordinary girl and her ordinary parents do the most extraordinary things! A young cowboy lassoes Father Time; the dummy in Mr. Floman's...
I Hear Your Voice
AuthorYoung-Ha Kim
ISBN0544324471
From one of Korea’s literary stars, a novel about two orphans from the streets of Seoul: one becomes the head of a powerful motorcycle gang, and the other follows him at all costs 

In South Korea, underground motorcycle gangs attract society’s castoffs. They form groups of hundreds and...
Shackleton's Journey
AuthorWilliam Grill
ISBN1909263109
Winner of the 2015 Kate Greenaway Medal
A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2014
Best Children’s Book of 2014, Wall Street Journal
Best Children’s Book of 2014, Brain Pickings
A 2015 USBBY Outstanding International Book

Young, up-and-coming illustrator William...
Moonhead and the Music Machine
AuthorAndrew Rae
ISBN1907704787
Life's a peach when you've got a moon for a head and your head's in space. You can wander out of the Earth's atmosphere on intergalactic daydreams, drift blissfully across star-speckled skies and fly close to the Sun, like a fireproof Icarus.

Snap! Back to reality—having a moon for a head at...
That's That: A Memoir
AuthorColin Broderick
ISBN0307716333
How can we know who we are if we do not understand where we came from?
 
Colin Broderick grew up in Northern Ireland during the period of heightened tension and violence known as the Troubles. Broderick's Catholic family lived in County Tyrone --the heart of rebel country. In That’s That,...
Tru & Nelle: A Christmas Tale
AuthorG. Neri
ISBN1328685985
When they were younger, Tru and Nelle were best friends, sharing adventures and solving mysteries in Monroeville, Alabama. But then Tru moved to New York City to live his mother and their friendship slowly faded away. Life in the big city wasn't as fun as Tru had hoped it would be. In fact, he ran away, and...
It All Comes Down to This
AuthorKaren English
ISBN0544839579
It’s 1965, Los Angeles. All twelve-year-old Sophie wants to do is write her book, star in the community play, and hang out with her friend Jennifer. But she’s the new black kid in a nearly all-white neighborhood; her beloved sister, Lily, is going away to college soon; and her parents’ marriage...
Frida: ¡Viva La Vida! Long Live Life!
AuthorCarmen T. Bernier-Grand
ISBN0761453369
"Wearing the white huipil with the lavender tassel,
hiding my amputated leg in red-leather boots,
I wheel the wheelchair to the Blue House studio
that Diego so lovingly built for me.

I dip the brush in blood-red paint
and, embracing life with all its light,
I print on a...
Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football's Make-Or-Break Moment
AuthorCarla Killough McClafferty
ISBN1467710679
When the 1905 football season ended, nineteen players were dead and countless others were critically injured. The public was outraged. The game had reached a make-or-break moment--fourth down and inches. Coaches, players, fans, and even the president of the United States had one last chance: change...
Where Will I Live?
AuthorRosemary McCarney
ISBN1772600288
Where do you go if your home is no longer safe?

Every child needs a home. They need somewhere safe where they can be happy, eat their meals with their family, play with their toys, and go to sleep at night feeling unafraid.

But many children all over the world have had to leave their homes...
Selected Novels and Short Stories
AuthorPatricia Highsmith
ISBN0393080137
Patricia Highsmith's dark talents, obsessive interest in love and murder, and macabre sensibility produced some of the most influential and deeply unsettling fiction of the twentieth century. For the reader uninitiated in the deadly world of her canon, this collection offers the first serious...
Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella
AuthorJewell Reinhart Coburn
ISBN1885008015
Ten ethnic versions of Cinderella story from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Middle East are summarized and worked into lessons for the middle and upper grades. Each story is accompanied by a Booktalk for review, a Motifs & Ideas for discussion, a Connection to a subject area, and a Vocabulary...
Almost to Freedom
AuthorVaunda Micheaux Nelson
Lindy and her doll Sally are best friends - wherever Lindy goes, Sally stays right by her side. They eat together, sleep together, and even pick cotton together. So, on the night Lindy and her mama run away in search of freedom, Sally goes too. This young girl's rag doll vividly narrates her enslaved family's...
Haiku
AuthorRichard Wright
ISBN0385720246
"As good a haiku poet as this country has ever produced."--Seattle Weekly

Like all great writers, Richard Wright never failed to create works of breathtaking originality, depth, and beauty. With Native Son he gave us Bigger Thomas, still one of the most provocative and controversial characters...
World War I
AuthorSimon Adams
الكتاب يتحدث عن الحرب العالمية الأولى و وقائعها , مرفقًا بصور أدوات/معدات عسكرية, وعلاجية, بعض الخرائط, ملصقات التعبئة العامة, وصور لجنود من الطرفين, رسائل...
Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution
AuthorMarcus Eriksen
ISBN0807056405
An exciting account of an activist scientist's unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made "junk raft"

News media brought the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"--the famous swirling gyre of plastic pollution...
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
AuthorGretel Ehrlich
ISBN0307907317
A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter...
GUYKU: A Year of Haiku for Boys
AuthorBob Raczka
ISBN0547240031
The wind and I play
tug-of-war with my new kite.
The wind is winning.

When you’re a guy, nature is one big playground—no matter what the season. There are puddles to splash in the spring, pine trees to climb in the summer, maple seeds to catch in the fall, and icicles to swordfight...
Toot & Puddle: Top of the World
AuthorHolly Hobbie
ISBN0316365130
Amazon.com Review
The story begins with a note from Toot, "Puds, Gone for a walk. Be back soon. T." But he doesn't get back soon (no surprise to Toot and Puddle fans), and by dinnertime, Toot is worried. He heads into the night, searching everywhere. He decides to think like his buddy to track him down,...
The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac
AuthorChristopher Corr
ISBN1786030659
Celebrate Chinese New Year and learn how every animal earned its place in the Chinese zodiac by taking part in the Great Race! Discover who will come first to win the ultimate prize, and find out why Cat will never forgive his friend Rat in this ancient folk tale that has been passed from generation...
Lift Your Light a Little Higher: The Story of Stephen Bishop: Slave-Explorer
AuthorHeather Henson
Grab your lantern and follow the remarkable and world-famous Mammoth Cave explorer—and slave—Stephen Bishop as he guides you through the world’s largest cave system in this remarkable homage to the resilience of human nature.

Welcome to Mammoth Cave. It’s 1840 and my name’s...
Fugue State
AuthorSteffan Piper
ISBN1469236575
Nineteen-year-old Sebastien Ranes spends his days knocking around Eagle River, Alaska, and his nights working as a janitor. His girlfriend’s father hates him, and his own parents’ opinion of him isn’t much better.

Broke and down on his luck, Sebastien robs a grocery store, making...
The Game
AuthorJack London
On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish...
Kjærlighet
AuthorHanne Ørstavik
ISBN8249504216
‘’A path into the forest, from a long-forgotten place.
Find the path and follow, its ribbon yours to trace.
Past trees and hillocks wander, to a splendid castle old,
In whose halls three ladies fine you shall at last behold.
The prince they there await, if ever he should come.
A...
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