I Had Seen Castles
10 best books like I Had Seen Castles (Cynthia Rylant): January's Sparrow, Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation, Lisa's War, One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II, Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers, Words By Heart, Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices, Baseball in April and Other Stories, Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters, Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman
| Author | Patricia Polacco |
| ISBN | 0399250778 |
Patricia Polacco's most powerful book since Pink and Say. In the middle of the night, The Crosswhites--including young Sadie--must flee the Kentucky plantation they work on. Dear January has been beaten and killed by the plantation master, and they fear who may be next. But Sadie must leave behind...
| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 0060821183 |
This story begins with shoes.
This story is all for true.
This story walks. And walks. And walks.
To the blues.
Rosa Parks took a stand by keeping her seat on the bus. When she was arrested for it, her supporters protested by refusing to ride. Soon a community of thousands was coming...
| Author | Carol Matas |
| ISBN | 0590241893 |
The last book Hilary and I read by this author reminded me of the movie (and Leon Uris’s book) Exodus. This one reminded me of Sophie & Hans Scholl and the White Rose, and of the children’s book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, about how Denmark’s citizens saved its country’s Jews from the Nazis....
| Author | Lita Judge |
| ISBN | 1423100085 |
If not for the photos, etc. I might have put this book on my historical fiction shelf, but I think the account is sufficiently accurate to have it belong on my non-fiction shelf. The author-illustrator dedicated this book to her mother and grandmother, which is fitting. Judge found a box of foot tracings...
Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0440228387 |
In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was 15. He didn't know what a "shooting war" meant or what he was fighting for. But he didn't want to miss out on a great adventure.
The "shooting war" turned out to be the horror of combat and the...
Lena can recite the Scriptures by heart. Hoping to make her adored Papa proud of her and to make her white classmates notice her "Magic Mind," not her black skin, Lena vows to win the Bible-quoting contest. But winning does not bring Lena what she expected. Instead of honor, violence and death erupt and...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0823418537 |
Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more....
| Author | Gary Soto |
| ISBN | 0152025677 |
The Mexican American author Gary Soto draws on his own experience of growing up in California’s Central Valley in this finely crafted collection of eleven short stories that reveal big themes in the small events of daily life. Crooked teeth, ponytailed girls, embarrassing grandfathers, imposter...
| Author | Jeannine Atkins |
| ISBN | 0805089349 |
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...
| Author | Louise Borden |
| ISBN | 0689864620 |
When Bessie Coleman was a child, she wanted to be in school -- not in the cotton fields of Texas, helping her family earn money. She wanted to be somebody significant in the world. So Bessie did everything she could to learn under the most challenging of circumstances. At the end of every day in the fields...
| Author | Rosalyn Schanzer |
| ISBN | 1426300425 |
There are two sides to every story. Rosalyn Schanzer's engaging and wonderfully illustrated book brings to life both sides of the American Revolution.
The narrative introduces anew the two enemies, both named George: George Washington, the man who freed the American colonies from the British,...
It's April 18, 1906, and a powerful earthquake has just rocked San Francisco. Photographer Edith Irvine and her assistant, Daisy Valentine, survive the tragedy. Armed with Edith's camera, the two women set out to document the devastation--even as buildings crumble around them and soldiers promise...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0152053808 |
It is difficult to find a children's book, that is illustrated tastefully, about a family in war time, but this book achieves this task effortlessly. There are moments where you might think the content is a bit strong for younger children, but if you think about it in terms of global consciousness and...
| Author | Mildred D. Taylor |
| ISBN | 0140389644 |
Cassie Logan and her brothers have been warned never to go to the Wallace store, so they know to expect trouble there. What they don t expect is to hear Mr. Tom Bee, an elderly black man, daring to call the white storekeeper by his first name. The year is 1933, the place is Mississippi, and any child knows that...
| Author | Han Nolan |
| ISBN | 0152051082 |
It's 1963 and fourteen-year-old Esther Young is looking for excitement. Cursed with a lack of talent in a family filled with artistic types, Esther vows to get some attention by initiating a summer romance with a black teen accused of murdering a white man in Alabama.
King-Roy Johnson shows...
| Author | Margarita Engle |
| ISBN | 1481461125 |
In a haunting yet hopeful novel in verse, award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the story of Antonio Chuffat, a young man of African, Chinese, and Cuban descent who became a champion of civil rights.
Asia, Africa, Europe—Antonio Chuffat’s ancestors clashed and blended on the beautiful...
| Author | Tanya Anderson |
| ISBN | 0966925874 |
With thousands of men off fighting in the Civil War, the government hired women and girls—some as young as ten—to make millions of rounds of ammunition. Poor immigrant girls and widows paid the price for carelessness at three major arsenals. Many of these workers were killed, blown up and burned...
Heroes Don't Run: A Novel of the Pacific War
| Author | Harry Mazer |
| ISBN | 1416933948 |
"I WANTED TO SERVE, TO BE PART OF THIS THING MY FATHER HAD GIVEN HIS LIFE FOR. I DIDN'T WANT THE WAR TO END, AND ALL I'D BE ABLE TO SAY WAS, NO I DIDN'T SERVE, I WAS RIGHT HERE THE WHOLE WAR, SAFE IN BAKERSFIELD."
Adam Pelko witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that killed his father, a lieutenant...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0590460528 |
The final handcrafted installment by award-winning author Ann Rinaldi. "Whether they've covered the previous books or not, readers will enjoy this rip-roaring tale of adventure and suspense."-Kirkus
Amanda Videau had no idea what adventures she'd find on the journey North. But she never...
| Author | Helen Wells |
| ISBN | 0977159728 |
In Army Nurse, Cherry has made the difficult decision facing all her classmates - should she enlist in the military or practice nursing on the homefront? She's graduated from Spencer and earned the right to put "RN" after her name, and as an Army nurse, she is now "Lieutenant Ames." The Army nurses are...
I Met the Walrus: How One Day with John Lennon Changed My Life Forever
| Author | Jerry Levitan |
| ISBN | 0061713260 |
Imagine you're the world's biggest Beatles fan and you've just snuck into John Lennon's hotel room. But instead of being thrown out, inexplicably you're invited to spend the day with your idol. That's exactly what happened to fourteen-year-old Jerry Levitan in 1969. After hearing John was in Toronto...
Barefoot Gen, Volume Six: Writing the Truth
| Author | Keiji Nakazawa |
| ISBN | 0867195975 |
Saya benar-benar terkena kutukan karena telah membuka dan membaca barefoot gen sejak di seri yang pertama. Jadinya mau tidak mau, saya harus mengikuti sampai genap sepuluh. Yang sudah diterjemahkan sudah sampai 8.
Di bagian ini, Gen dan gerombolannya, dihadapkan pada situasi kelaparan...
