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10 best books like Keeping Score (Linda Sue Park): Adèle & Simon in America, The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War, The Yanks Are Coming: The United States In The First World War, Bound for Oregon, We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson, Shh! We're Writing the Constitution, Bird Lake Moon, Bonanza Girl, My Heart Lies South: The Story of My Mexican Marriage

Adèle & Simon in America
AuthorBarbara McClintock
ISBN0374399247
Adèle and her younger brother, Simon, have just arrived in New York City to visit their Aunt Cécile and prepare for a grand train trip around America. “Please try not to lose anything on our trip,” Adèle tells her brother with a sigh. But how can Simon remember to keep an eye on his belongings when...
The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War
AuthorJim Murphy
ISBN0395664128
I have never read about the Civil War in such a basic and simplistic way before. This is a sad, but true book about the boys who fought in the Civil War. Some were as young as 10 years old! I have a ten year old and I can't imagine him not only witnessing what these boys saw, but being part of it as well. Most of these...
The Yanks Are Coming: The United States In The First World War
AuthorAlbert Marrin
ISBN0689312091
I love Albert Marrin. He has a great style that presents all the facts in a conversational, easy tone, without talking down. I've learned a lot of history through him already.

'The Yanks Are Coming' isn't any different. It's an engaging look at both the personal life of the Doughboy and the decisions...
Bound for Oregon
AuthorJean Van Leeuwen
ISBN0140383190

With only a guide book to show them the way, the Todd family sets out from their Arkansas home on a two thousand mile trek to claim unchartered Oregon Territory. Crossing rough terrain and encountering hostile people, the Todds show their true pioneering spirit. But as winter draws near, will the...
We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
AuthorKadir Nelson
ISBN0786808322
Rube Foster was the founder of the Negro National League. Said he of his men, "We are the ship: all else the sea." As long as there has been baseball in America there have been African-American ballplayers. Men like Sol White and Bud Fowler. Before Rube Foster, however, there was no organized professional...
Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
AuthorSharon Robinson
ISBN0545052513
Sharon Robinson, the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, has crafted a hearwarming, true story about growing up with her father.

When Jackie Robinson retires from baseball and moves his family to Connecticut, the beautiful lake on their property is the center of everyone's fun....
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution
AuthorJean Fritz
ISBN0698116240
Again, Jean Fritz does such a good job of taking a dry subject and adding life. For instance, I learned that during a break from the Constitution Convention Oliver Ellsworth wrote a letter home about visiting an Egyptian mummy on display in Philadelphia and how he opened it up so he could see what the flesh...
Bird Lake Moon
AuthorKevin Henkes
ISBN0061470767
When two boys come to spend the summer at Bird Lake, each is reeling from his own personal tragedy. Both boys arrive scarred and fragile, but as they become friends, the sharp edges of their lives smooth out and, slowly, they are able to start to heal.

Spencer thought the house might be haunted....
Bonanza Girl
AuthorPatricia Beatty
ISBN0688122809
Mama is widowed, with two children and no job prospects. She decides to start a school out in the gold fields but is shortly and firmly disabused of all her city slicker notions. The story is narrated by Ann Katherine, who is a nicely written young teen. Her younger brother is the bane of her existence, naturally....
My Heart Lies South: The Story of My Mexican Marriage
AuthorElizabeth Borton de Treviño
ISBN1883937515
What happens when a thoroughly twentieth-century American lady journalist becomes a Mexican señora in nineteen-thirties provincial Monterrey? She finds herself sometimes hilariously coping with servants, daily food allowances, bargaining, and dramatic Latin emotions. It is like stepping...
Mudville
AuthorKurtis Scaletta
ISBN0375855793
Welcome to Moundville, where it?s been raining for longer than Roy McGuire has been alive. Most people say the town is cursed?right in the middle of their big baseball game against rival town Sinister Bend, black clouds crept across the sky and it started to rain. That was 22 years ago . . . and it?s still...
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend)
AuthorDeborah Hopkinson
Here's an ingenious historical fiction picture book about the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It’s a tale of two boys who get themselves into more trouble than bear cubs in a candy store.

The year is 1816. Abe is only seven years old, and his pal, Austin, is ten. Abe and...
Strange Relations
AuthorSonia Levitin
ISBN0375837515
A summer in paradise. That's all Marne wants. That's all she can think of when she asks her parents permission to spend the summer in Hawaii with Aunt Carole and her family.

But Marne quickly realizes her visit isn't going to be just about learning to surf and morning runs along the beach, despite...
Stink Alley
AuthorJamie Gilson
ISBN0688178642
The year is 1614. Recently orphaned Lizzy Tinker has lived half of her twelve years in Holland, but she does not feel at home there. Lizzy belongs to a small congregation of religious refugees who have fled England in order to worship as they choose. The Dutch people enjoy a free and easy lifestyle that...
Brooklyn Bridge
AuthorKaren Hesse
ISBN0312378866
It's the summer of 1903 in Brooklyn and all fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom wants is to experience the thrill, the grandeur, and the electricity of the new amusement park at Coney Island. But that doesn't seem likely. Ever since his parents--Russian immigrants--invented the stuffed Teddy Bear...
Six Innings: A Game in the Life
AuthorJames Preller
ISBN0312367635
Two teams, six innings, one game.

A lively cast of characters--baseball-loving boys between the ages of eleven to thirteen--are playing the biggest game of their lives. With acrobatic catches, clutch hits, dramatic whiffs, and costly errors, this game is full of action. But as the book unfolds,...
Little Audrey
AuthorRuth White
ISBN0374345805
"What else would you wish for?" Daddy says. "If you could have anything in the world, what would you wish for?"
I shrug. "Oh, I don't know. Maybe . . ."
"Maybe what?"
"For us to live better than we do."
He does not say anything.

In 1948, award-winning author Ruth White lived in Jewell...
Baby
AuthorPatricia MacLachlan
ISBN0385311338
3.5 stars

Note to self: be careful which books you read before needing to see people; particularly right before teaching a piano lesson. Trying to keep back any tears from spilling out and landing all over your flushed face is difficult. Quick recovered composures, though desired, are not...
Teammates
AuthorPeter Golenbock
ISBN0152006036
This book is about the crazy road of Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese. It does a great job talking about how hard it was for Jackie to get into the major leagues and how much he had to go through to play the sport that he loved. As time went on, he was on the team and Pee Wee Reese had to stand up for whats right and...
Moonshiner's Son
AuthorCarolyn Reeder
ISBN0689855508
Twelve-year-old Tom Higgins is learning the craft of making whiskey. Even though Prohibition forbids the production and sale of alcoholic beverages, Tom is determined to be a good apprentice. He is, after all, a moonshiner's son. His father has raised moonshining to an art, and Tom wants nothing more...
The Aurora County All-Stars
AuthorDeborah Wiles
ISBN0152060685
Twelve-year-old House Jackson—star pitcher and team captain of the Aurora County All-Stars—has been sidelined for a whole sorry year with a broken elbow. He's finally ready to play, but wouldn't you know that the team's only game of the year has been scheduled for the exact same time as the town's 200th-anniversary...
World War II: The Rest Of The Story And How It Affects You Today, 1930 To September 11, 2001
AuthorRichard J. Maybury
ISBN0942617436
All my kids will be reading this, as I think its challenge to the "mainstream" interpretations of World War II is invaluable. However, I hope my kids all have their internal B.S. detector going, because Maybury isn't immune. Maybury makes important points but can't resist innuendo (like telling us...
Liberty for All?: 1820-1860
AuthorJoy Hakim
ISBN0195153286
Early nineteenth-century America could just about be summed up by Henry David Thoreau's words when he said, "Eastward I go only by force, but westward I go free." It was an exuberant time for the diverse citizens of the United States, who included a range of folk, from mountain men and railroad builders...
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank-you Notes
AuthorPeggy Gifford
ISBN0375945520
Here's the second book in the hilarious Moxy Maxwell series, which includes Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart little and Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Practicing the Piano. It isn't as though Moxy isn’t grateful for her Christmas presents. She is. She’s just not thrilled that she has to write a thank-you...
Water Street
AuthorPatricia Reilly Giff
ISBN0385730683
Brooklyn, 1875: Bird Mallon lives on Water Street where you can see the huge towers of the bridge to Manhattan being built. Bird wants nothing more in life than to be brave enough to be a healer, like her mother, Nory, to help her sister Annie find love, and to convince her brother, Hughie, to stop fighting...
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