My Book of Life by Angel

8 best books like My Book of Life by Angel (Martine Leavitt): We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga, The Way We Live Now, Hero, Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, Mating, Beneath a Meth Moon, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and The Endurance, Whirligig

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga

Author	Traci Sorell
ISBN	1632896338

A look at modern Native American life as told by a citizen of the Cherokee Nation

The word otsaliheliga (oh-jah-LEE-hay-lee-gah) is used by members of the Cherokee Nation to express gratitude. Beginning in the fall with the new year and ending in summer, follow a full Cherokee year of celebrations...

The Way We Live Now

Author	Anthony Trollope
ISBN	1853262552

”There are a thousand little silly softnesses which are pretty and endearing between acknowledged lovers, with which no woman would like to dispense, to which even men who are in love submit sometimes with delight; but which in other circumstances would be vulgar,— and to the woman distasteful....

Hero

Author	Perry Moore
ISBN	1423101952

The last thing in the world Thom Creed wants is to add to his father's pain, so he keeps secrets. Like that he has special powers. And that he's been asked to join the League - the very organization of superheroes that spurned his dad. But the most painful secret of all is one Thom can barely face himself: he's...

Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95

Author	Phillip Hoose
ISBN	0374304688

B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It’s time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.
He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists...

Mating

Author

Norman Rush

The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African republic of Botswana. She has a noble and exacting mind, a good waist, and a busted thesis project. She also has a yen for Nelson Denoon, a charismatic intellectual...

Beneath a Meth Moon

Author	Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN	0399252509

Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside she’s still reeling from the loss of her beloved mother and grandmother after Hurricane Katrina washed away their home. Laurel’s new life is going well, with a new best friend, a place on the cheerleading squad and T-Boom, co-captain...

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and The Endurance

Author	Jennifer Armstrong
ISBN	0375810498

The harrowing story of the ill-fated Endurance, now in paperback.

In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton and 27 men sailed from England in an attempt to become the first team of explorers to cross Antarctica from one side to the other. Five months later and still 100 miles from land, their ship, Endurance,...

Whirligig

Author	Paul Fleischman
ISBN	0440228352

When sixteen-year-old Brent Bishop inadvertently causes the death of a young woman, he is sent on an unusual journey of repentance, building wind toys across the land.In his most ambitious novel to date, Newbery winner Paul Fleischman traces Brent's healing pilgrimage from Washington State to California,...