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10 best books like Out of the Hitler Time (Judith Kerr): The Alley, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Clyde Fans, The Ghost Road, Stig of the Dump, Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child, Paradise Lodge, Henri's Walk to Paris, Sparkle and Spin: A Book About Words, Reasons to Be Cheerful

The Alley
AuthorEleanor Estes
ISBN0152049185
In the heart of Brooklyn, New York, there is an alley that is the most beautiful place to live in the whole wide world. Or so Connie Ives believes. The alley is the perfect location to sharpen Connie's swinging skills, hold practices for the Alley Conservatory of Music, and convict a burglar by trial.
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Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
AuthorMac Barnett
ISBN0763662291
With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor.

Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing....
Clyde Fans
AuthorSeth
ISBN1770463577
A masterful work about a failing family business and the ensuing erosion of sibling relations and one’s sanity

Twenty years in the making, Clyde Fans peels back the optimism of mid-twentieth century capitalism. The legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth lovingly shows the rituals, hopes,...
The Ghost Road
AuthorPat Barker
ISBN0452276721
The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy, and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize
"The Ghost Road" is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts. In France, millions...
Stig of the Dump
AuthorClive King
ISBN0140364501
This book surprised me. I was expecting it to be a simple, fun, mildly enjoyable read, which I would have better appreciated had I read it at 9 years old (which is when everyone else seemed to read it). Instead, I was wowed by the levels of humour and social commentary and astute observation and depth within...
Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
AuthorLaura Cumming
ISBN1501198718
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades.

In the...
Paradise Lodge
AuthorNina Stibbe
ISBN0241974925
This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place is in chaos and it's not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she'd only gone for the job because she wanted a new phase and it seemed too exhausting to commit to...
Henri's Walk to Paris
AuthorLeonore Klein
ISBN0789322633
Henri’s Walk to Paris is the story of a young boy who lives in Reboul, France, who dreams of going to Paris. One day, after reading a book about Paris, he decides to pack a lunch and head for the city. 

“Like many of us Henri wants to see Paris.

In Paris, there are thousands of buses....
Sparkle and Spin: A Book About Words
AuthorAnn Rand
Through harmony and rhythm, resonance and pitch, Ann Rand inspires readers to listen to the tuneful play of her text as it sings off each page. Illustrated with graphic designer Paul Rand's colorful, witty artwork, Sparkle and Spin is a children's classic (now happily available again through Chronicle...
Reasons to Be Cheerful
AuthorNina Stibbe
ISBN0241240522
'When people in the village heard I was about to start working in the city they tried to unsettle me with tales of woe. The sun, blotted out by the tall buildings, couldn't shine and the rain was poisoned by the toxic fumes that poured from the sock factories. My skin would be covered in pimples from the hell...
The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
AuthorJohn Connell
ISBN1684574072
There are so many huge issues to write about that we forget that sometimes in writing about something small it gives one the freedom to contemplate deep musings on the things that matter most. If all you get from this book is a love and appreciation for farming and a suddenly intense desire to add a trip to...
Gloriana
AuthorKevin Huizenga
ISBN1770460616
Formally innovative explorations bring poetry to the quotidian

In Gloriana, Kevin Huizenga exposes the mechanics that underpin everyday life. His protagonist, Glenn Ganges, has conversations about dish soap and library visits that are both faithful depictions of the mundane interactions...
Think Black: A Memoir of Sacrifice, Success, and Self-Loathing in Corporate America
AuthorClyde W. Ford
ISBN0062890565
In this thought-provoking and heartbreaking memoir, an award-winning writer tells the story of his father, John Stanley Ford, the first black software engineer at IBM, revealing how racism insidiously affected his father’s view of himself and their relationship.

In 1947, Thomas J....
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