Keeping Corner
10 best books like Keeping Corner (Kashmira Sheth): The Twenty-One Balloons, Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, Climbing the Stairs, A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story, Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima, Anything But Typical, Ties That Bind, Ties That Break, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Breaking Stalin's Nose, Iqbal
| Author | William Pène du Bois |
| ISBN | 0140320970 |
One month after graduating from college, I started working. That was in 1984. I am now in my 4th company and except for my paid vacation leaves and rare sick days, I have never been, even a single day, out of the corporate rate race.
27 years of working and trying to earn a living.
I know it...
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
| Author | Geraldine Brooks |
| ISBN | 0385475772 |
With a New Afterword
As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop...
| Author | Padma Venkatraman |
| ISBN | 0399247467 |
A remarkable debut novel set in India that shows one girl's struggle for independence.
During World War II and the last days of British occupation in India, fifteen-year-old Vidya dreams of attending college. But when her forward-thinking father is beaten senseless by the British police,...
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
| Author | Linda Sue Park |
| ISBN | 0547251270 |
A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan,...
Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
| Author | Keiji Nakazawa |
| ISBN | 0867196025 |
This harrowing story of Hiroshima was one of the original Japanese manga series. New and unabridged, this is an all-new translation of the author's first-person experiences of Hiroshima and its aftermath, is a reminder of the suffering war brings to innocent people. Its emotions and experiences...
| Author | Nora Raleigh Baskin |
| ISBN | 1416963782 |
Jason Blake is an autistic 12-year-old living in a neurotypical world. Most days it’s just a matter of time before something goes wrong. But Jason finds a glimmer of understanding when he comes across PhoenixBird, who posts stories to the same online site as he does.
Jason can be himself when...
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
| Author | Lensey Namioka |
| ISBN | 0440415993 |
Third Sister in the Tao family, Ailin has watched her two older sisters go through the painful process of having their feet bound. In China in 1911, all the women of good families follow this ancient tradition. But Ailin loves to run away from her governess and play games with her male cousins. Knowing...
| Author | Margaret Forster |
| ISBN | 0099449285 |
Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and vividly records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war, tragedy, and money troubles. From bohemian London...
| Author | Eugene Yelchin |
| ISBN | 0805092161 |
One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011
Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six:
The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.
A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.
A...
| Author | Francesco D'Adamo |
| ISBN | 1416903291 |
When young Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, his arrival changes everything for the other overworked and abused chidren there. It is Iqbal who explains to them that despite their master's promises, he plans on keeping them as his slaves indefinetely. But it is also Iqbal who inspires the...
The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child
| Author | Ron Clark |
| ISBN | 0786888164 |
Now in paperback, Ron Clark's New York Times bestseller that's changing America one child at a time! The runaway bestseller that's a must-have for every parent and teacher. How many authors would travel coast to coast on a bus to get their book into as many hands as possible? Not many. But that's just what...
You're Crushing It: Positivity for living your REAL life
| Author | Lex Croucher |
| ISBN | 1408892472 |
Sometimes life can be pretty amazing. But other times it feels like:
A. Your heart and stomach have been steamrolled into a grisly organ pancake
B. You are being put through an emotional spiralizer that creates human courgetti
C. Both of the above. You're a courgetti pancake
No,...
Mit 17 ist das Leben schwer. Dass man, wie Alex, mehr Schwarz als Lila trägt, mit einem schweigenden Vater und einem Papagei lebt und nur den einzigen Schulfreund Paul hat, macht es kaum leichter. Aber dann taucht Herr Spitzing auf, der junge Referendar, den sogar Alex gut findet. Auf der Klassenfahrt...
My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope
| Author | Diane Guerrero |
| ISBN | 1250134862 |
Before landing a spot on the megahit Netflix show Orange is the New Black; before wowing audiences as Lina on Jane the Virgin; and before her incredible activism and work on immigration reform, Diane Guerrero was a young girl living in Boston. One day, while Guerrero was at school, her undocumented immigrant...
| Author | Nancy Farmer |
| ISBN | 1442482540 |
The new book continues the story of Matt, the boy who was cloned from evil drug lord El Patrón in The House of the Scorpion. Now 14 years old, Matt rules his own country, the Land of Opium, the only thriving place in a world ravaged by ecological disaster. Though he knows that the cure for ending the suffering...
The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi
| Author | Arun Gandhi |
| ISBN | 1476754853 |
Discover ten vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of the twentieth century—Mahatma Gandhi—in this poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Gandhi’s grandson, Arun...
| Author | Gloria Whelan |
| ISBN | 0064408191 |
Like many girls her age in the India of her time period, thirteen-year-old-Koly is getting married. Full of hope and courage, she leaves home forever. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled about exactly what she is marrying into....
| Author | Sarah Grand |
| ISBN | 0803705522 |
Sarah Grand was my choice for June in my Literary Birthday Challenge. Another new name for me, this author was born in Ireland to English parents in 1854. The Beth Book is described in the GR blurb as semi-autobiographical, and since I usually enjoy such books, I chose it out of the three titles available...
