My Name is Seepeetza
10 best books like My Name is Seepeetza (Shirley Sterling): Harriet the Spy, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women, The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts, Blueberries for Sal, Emily of New Moon, Shi-shi-etko, When I Was Eight, As for Me and My House, Swallows and Amazons, The Story of the Amulet
| Author | Louise Fitzhugh |
| ISBN | 0440416795 |
Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. She's staked out a spy route, and she writes down everything about everyone she sees - including her classmates and her best friends - in her notebook.
I bet the lady with the cross-eye looks in the mirror and feels just terrible.
Pinky Whitehead will never change....
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women
| Author | Rey Terciero |
| ISBN | 0316522864 |
Little Women with a twist: four sisters from a blended family experience the challenges and triumphs of life in NYC in this beautiful full-color graphic novel perfect for fans of Roller Girl and Smile.
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are having a really tough year: with their father serving in the...
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
| Author | Richard Peck |
| ISBN | 0803727364 |
If there's one thing you can't see at the age of fifteen, it's ahead.
Russell wants nothing more than to leave his tiny hometown in Indiana, and start working on a threshing crew in the Dakotas. Only one thing stands in the way of his dream . . . school. BUT, in a stroke of luck, his horrid teacher,...
| Author | Robert McCloskey |
| ISBN | 0670175919 |
Caldecott Honor Book
What happens when Sal and her mother meet a mother bear and her cub? A beloved classic is born!
Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk! Sal and her mother a picking blueberries to can for the winter. But when Sal wanders to the other side of Blueberry Hill, she discovers a mama...
Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely -- until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy. Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding...
| Author | Nicola I. Campbell |
| ISBN | 0888996594 |
Winner of the Anskohk Aboriginal Children's Book of the Year Award. Finalist for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award
In just four days young Shi-shi-etko will have to leave her family and all that she knows to attend...
| Author | Christy Jordan-Fenton |
| ISBN | 1554514916 |
Bestselling memoir Fatty Legs for younger readers. Olemaun is eight and knows a lot of things. But she does not know how to read. Ignoring her father’s warnings, she travels far from her Arctic home to the outsiders’ school to learn. The nuns at the school call her Margaret. They cut off her long hair...
| Author | Sinclair Ross |
| ISBN | 0771099975 |
“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating glints that might be painted on it. The town seems huddled together, cowering on a high tiny perch, afraid to move lest it topple into the wind.”
The...
Read as part of The Infinite Variety Reading Challenge, based on the BBC's Big Read Poll of 2003.
Swallows and Amazons, despite it being a popular old-fashioned children's book that almost every adult in England would have read, has never been on my radar and I don't think I'd ever even heard...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 0140367527 |
At the end of Five Children and It the five children promised not to ask the Psammead for another wish as long as they lived, but expressed a half wish to see it again some time. They find 'it' again in a pet shop in Camden Town, and their magic adventures start over again. 'It' leads them to a magic amulet - half...
| Author | Carol Matas |
| ISBN | 0689843585 |
Holly Springs, Mississippi, 1862
Hannah Green can't believe what happens to her family after the war breaks out. First, her sister Joanna falls in love with a Union soldier -- an enemy. Next, the same soldier tells Hannah and her family about General Grant's General Order #11, which commands all...
| Author | Christy Jordan-Fenton |
| ISBN | 1554512476 |
The moving memoir of an Inuit girl who emerges from a residential school with her spirit intact.
Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let...
| Author | Christy Jordan-Fenton |
| ISBN | 1554513618 |
Traveling to be reunited with her family in the arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It’s been two years since her parents delivered her to the school run by the dark-cloaked nuns and brothers. Coming ashore, Margaret spots her family, but her mother barely recognizes...
| Author | David Alexander Robertson |
| ISBN | 9781553793 |
A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, his friend's grandmother, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, at the age of 8, everything changed. Betsy was taken away to a residential...
| Author | Nicola I. Campbell |
| ISBN | 0888998570 |
When they arrive at school, Shi-shi-etko reminds Shinchi, her six-year-old brother, that they can only use their English names and that they can't speak to each other. For Shinchi, life becomes an endless cycle of church mass, school, and work, punctuated by skimpy meals. He finds solace at the river,...
Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak
| Author | Deborah Ellis |
| ISBN | 0888996454 |
In a rehabilitation center for disabled children, twelve-year-old Nora says she loves the color pink and chewing gum and explains that the wheels of her wheelchair are like her legs. Eleven-year-old Mohammad describes how his house was demolished by soldiers. And we meet twelve-year-old Salam,...
The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel
| Author | Deborah Ellis |
| ISBN | 1773061186 |
This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan.
Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building...
Coyote, the trickster, creates the world and all the creatures within it. She is able to control all events to her advantage until a funny-looking red-haired man named Columbus changes her plans. He is unimpressed by the wealth of moose, turtles, and beavers in Coyote's land. Instead, he is interested...
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems
Twelve-year-old Güero is Mexican American, at home with Spanish or English and on both sides of the river. He’s starting 7th grade with a woke English teacher who knows how to make poetry cool.
In Spanish, “Güero” is a nickname for guys with pale skin, Latino or Anglo. But make no mistake:...
