Junebug
10 best books like Junebug (Alice Mead): Dogtag Summer, Grandma's Tiny House: A Counting Story!, Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery, Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, Visiting Day, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio, This Is My Home, This Is My School, When Freedom Comes
| Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
| ISBN | 1599901838 |
Twelve-year-old Tracy-or Tuyet-has always felt different. The villagers in Vietnam called her con-lai, or "half-breed," because her father was an American GI. And she doesn't fit in with her adoptive family in California, either. But when Tracy and a friend discover a soldier's dogtag hidden among...
| Author | Janay Brown-Wood |
| ISBN | 1580897126 |
This sweet, rhyming counting book introduces young readers to numbers one through fifteen as Grandma's family and friends fill her tiny house on Brown Street. Neighbors, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and grandkids crowd into the house and pile it high with treats for a family feast.
But...
| Author | Sandra Neil Wallace |
| ISBN | 1481443879 |
Discover the true story of NFL star Ernie Barnes—a boy who followed his dreams and became one of the most influential artists of his generations—with this beautifully illustrated nonfiction picture book.
When Ernie Barnes was growing up in North Carolina in the 1940s, he loved to draw....
| Author | Margot Lee Shetterly |
| ISBN | 0062742469 |
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really good.
They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0590400053 |
Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson has written a poignant picture book about a little girl who waits hopefully for her father's release from prison.
Only on visiting day is there chicken frying in the kitchen at 6 a.m. And Grandma in her Sunday dress, humming soft and...
| Author | Deborah Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 0679874720 |
2013 marks the 20th anniversary of Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt!
As a seamstress in the Big House, Clara dreams of a reunion with her Momma, who lives on another plantation--and even of running away to freedom. Then she overhears two slaves talking about the Underground Railroad. In a flash...
| Author | James Sturm |
| ISBN | 0786839015 |
Baseball Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1905? 1982) changed the face of the game in a career that spanned five decades. Much has been written about this larger-than-life pitcher, but when it comes to Paige, fact does not easily separate from fiction. He made a point of writing his own historyand...
| Author | Tony Johnston |
| ISBN | 0439233844 |
Award-winning picture-book author Tony Johnston presents the poignant story of a loving Mexican-American family in East L.A. in her first novel for young readers.
Los Angeles is a place of movie stars and fast cars and people who are too rich and people who are too poor. An area of freeway chases...
| Author | Jonathan Bean |
| ISBN | 0374380201 |
Drawing from his own childhood experiences, Jonathan Bean takes the autobiographically inspired family he introduced in Building Our House through the special rhythms and routines of a homeschooling day. For young Jonathan and his sisters, Mom is the teacher and a whole lot more, and Dad is the best...
In Hope's third and final diary, by Kristiana Gregory, we meet Hope once again in the middle of the Revolutionary War, as she continues to bravely face the turmoil and violence.
Hope describes the realities of life in Pennsylvania as she is caught up in the midst of the Revolutionary War. Though the...
“One of the new tiger cubs has escaped from the reserve!”When a tiger cub escapes from a nature reserve near Neel’s island village, the rangers and villagers hurry to find her before the cub’s anxious mother follows suit and endangers them all. Mr. Gupta, a rich newcomer to the island, is also...
| Author | Kay Moore |
| ISBN | 0590674447 |
I find if you are like me and do not remember the history that was studied in school when you were younger that picking up a kids book on history helps you better understand what you are learning about.
This written very simply and broken up in lite paragraphs. It gives an overview of what happened...
| Author | Nikki Grimes |
| ISBN | 0399245375 |
Paris has just moved in with the Lincoln family, and isn't thrilled to be in yet another foster home. She has a tough time trusting people, and she misses her brother, who's been sent to a boys' home. Over time, the Lincolns grow on Paris. But no matter how hard she tries to fit in, she can't ignore the feeling...
| Author | Katherine Paterson |
| ISBN | 0525674802 |
This book for kids is about siblings who recently lost their father. Little Mason refuses to talk and older Vinnie is supposed to "help" her mother as they move into Grandmom's house, start at a new school and meet new friends. I can't really say what the point of this books is. That the kids were disturbed?...
| Author | Gary Soto |
| ISBN | 0152054251 |
In this new edition of his first young adult novel, Gary Soto paints a moving portrait of seventeen-year-old Jesse, who has left his parents' home to live with his older brother. These Mexican American brothers hope junior college will help them escape their heritage of tedious physical labor. Their...
| Author | Arnold Adoff |
| ISBN | 0064432696 |
Brown-skinned momma, the color of chocolate milk and coffee pumpkin pie, whose face gets ginger red when she puffs and yells the children into bed. White-skinned daddy, not white like milk or snow, lighter than brown, With pinks and tiny tans, whose face gets tomato red when he puffs and yells their children...
| Author | Virginia Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0375824057 |
“THE PEOPLE COULD FLY,” the title story in Virginia Hamilton’s prize-winning American Black folktale collection, is a fantasy tale of the slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled them to literally fly away to freedom. And it is a moving tale of those who did not have the opportunity...
Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become Malcolm X
Malcolm X grew to be one of America’s most influential figures. But first, he was a boy named Malcolm Little. Written by his daughter, this inspiring picture book biography celebrates a vision of freedom and justice.
Bolstered by the love and wisdom of his large, warm family, young Malcolm...
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
| ISBN | 0689851944 |
When Precious is left home alone with a stomachache, she's got nothing but a warning from Mama -- "Don't let nothing or nobody into this house" -- to keep her company. You see, "nothing or nobody" could turn out to be something awful: the Boo Hag! The Boo Hag's got a voice that rumbles like thunder and hair...
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
| Author | Rita Williams-Garcia |
| ISBN | 0062215949 |
A National Book Award Longlist title that has earned 5 starred reviews!
"This slim novel strikes a strong chord."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"This complex tale of family and forgiveness has heart.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
"Strong...
| Author | Coleen Murtagh Paratore |
| ISBN | 0545075793 |
From the author of THE WEDDING PLANNER'S DAUGHTER, a fantastic new series about a poor girl with a rich outlook on life.
Sunny Holiday thinks that every month should have a kid-friendly holiday. Valentine's Day, July 4th, and Christmas definitely fit the bill--but months like January and...
A story of family, faith, and following your heart
For ten-year-old Cadence Jolly, birthdays are a constant reminder of all that has changed since her mother skipped town with dreams of becoming a star. Cadence inherited that musical soul, she can't deny it, but otherwise she couldn't be more...
| Author | Kelly Starling Lyons |
| ISBN | 0399160019 |
A poignant story celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
It’s 1862 and the Civil War has turned out to be a long, deadly conflict. Hope’s father can’t stand the waiting a minute longer and decides to join the Union army to fight for freedom. He slips away one...
The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade
| Author | Jordan Sonnenblick |
| ISBN | 0545863201 |
In sixth grade, bad things can happen to good kids. Bullies will find your weakness and jump on it. Teachers will say you did something wrong when really you didn't mean to do anything wrong. The kids who joke the loudest can drown out the quieter, nicer kids.
Maverick wants to change all that....
Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade
| Author | Charles B. Dew |
| ISBN | 0813938872 |
In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation.
Dew re-creates...
