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Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family

10 best books like Part of Me: Stories of a Louisiana Family (Kimberly Willis Holt): The Loud Silence of Francine Green, Dogtag Summer, The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous, A Library Book for Bear, Apple Cake: A Recipe for Love, You're Finally Here!, Eyes of the Emperor, Keeping Score, The Case of the Baker Street Irregular, Dark Sons

The Loud Silence of Francine Green
AuthorKaren Cushman
ISBN0618504559
Francine Green doesn’t speak up much, and who can blame her? Her parents aren’t interested in her opinions, the nuns at school punish girls who ask too many questions, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities is blacklisting people who express unpopular ideas. There’s safety in silence....
Dogtag Summer
AuthorElizabeth Partridge
ISBN1599901838
Twelve-year-old Tracy-or Tuyet-has always felt different. The villagers in Vietnam called her con-lai, or "half-breed," because her father was an American GI. And she doesn't fit in with her adoptive family in California, either. But when Tracy and a friend discover a soldier's dogtag hidden among...
The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous
AuthorSuzanne Crowley
ISBN0061231975
Merilee leads a Very Ordered Existence. V.O.E., for short. Her schedule (which must not be altered) includes, among other entries: School (horrendous) Litter patrol (30 minutes daily) Lunch (PB&J and a pickle) Bottle return (Friday only at the Piggly Wiggly) Dame Fiona's meditation show (Saturday...
A Library Book for Bear
AuthorBonny Becker
ISBN0763649244
Bear does not want to go to the library. He is quite sure he already has all the books he will ever need. Yet the relentlessly cheery Mouse, small and gray and bright-eyed, thinks different. When Bear reluctantly agrees to go with his friend to the big library, neither rocket ships nor wooden canoes are...
Apple Cake: A Recipe for Love
AuthorJulie Paschkis
ISBN0547807457
In this lovely valentine of a book, Julie Paschkis offers young readers a glimpse of the extraordinary world that can be hidden in the simplest of things. Alfonso loves his colorful, magical existence. He also loves the brilliant, beautiful Ida. But Ida, nose in a book, just doesn’t seem to notice....
You're Finally Here!
AuthorMélanie Watt
ISBN1423134869
Hooray! You're finally here! But where were you? A bunny bounces through a range of emotions in this funny picture book about how difficult it is to wait. At first he's ecstatic that you, the reader, has arrived. But then he can't help letting you know that waiting for you took too long, was way too boring,...
Eyes of the Emperor
AuthorGraham Salisbury
ISBN0440229561
Eddy Okana lies about his age and joins the Army in his hometown of Honolulu only weeks before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Americans see him as the enemy—even the U.S. Army doubts the loyalty of Japanese American soldiers.

Then the Army sends Eddy and a small band of Japanese American...
Keeping Score
AuthorLinda Sue Park
ISBN0618927999
Both Maggie Fortini and her brother, Joey-Mick, were named for baseball great Joe DiMaggio. Unlike Joey-Mick, Maggie doesn't play baseball—but at almost ten years old, she is a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Maggie can recite all the players' statistics and understands the subtleties...
The Case of the Baker Street Irregular
AuthorRobert Newman
Sherlock Holmes is basically a literary superhero to me. Sure his weaknesses are a little more interesting than most but he holds the same appeal to me as comic books do to fanboys. (or girls!) I am just one huge grin at all of the quick conversations, random factoids and asides, and during the eventual...
Dark Sons
AuthorNikki Grimes
ISBN1423102517
Sam can't believe it when his father leaves the family to marry another woman--and a white woman, at that. The betrayal cuts deep--Sam had been so close to his dad, he idolized him. Now who can he turn to, who can he trust? Even God seems to have ditched him.

Ishmael is his father's first son, the...
Darby
AuthorJonathon Scott Fuqua
ISBN0763622907
"Darby's first-person narrative is frank and immediate . . . expressing what it's like for an ordinary white kid who suddenly discovers evil — and courage — where she lives." — BOOKLIST

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A National Council for the Social Studies Notable Trade Book for...
The Chicken Dance
AuthorJacques Couvillon
ISBN1599900432
On his birthday, Don Schmidt spends the day waiting patiently for his big surprise--a cake, presents, maybe a Chinese clown . . . . But instead, his batty parents get into their monthly argument. This time it's because his mother has to feed the chickens. It ends with her shouting the same thing as always...
Thames Doesn't Rhyme with James
AuthorPaula Danziger
ISBN0698117883
I haven't read this book in a really long time. But I was privileged enough to get this book autographed by Paula Danziger herself. She came to visit my elementary school in the 4th grade. Her Amber Brown series was the first set up books I ever picked up on my own and read. I couldn't read until the 4th grade,...
The King of Mulberry Street
AuthorDonna Jo Napoli
ISBN0385746539
In 1892, nine-year-old Dom’s mother puts him on a ship leaving Italy, bound for America. He is a stowaway, traveling alone and with nothing of value except for a new pair of shoes from his mother. In the turbulent world of homeless children in Manhattan’s Five Points, Dom learns street smarts, and...
The Canning Season
AuthorPolly Horvath
ISBN0374399565
Love under trying circumstances
One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark's ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins who...
The Legend of Buddy Bush
AuthorShelia P. Moses
ISBN1416907165
The day Uncle Goodwin "Buddy" Bush came from Harlem all the way back home to Rehobeth Road in Rich Square, North Carolina, is the day twelve-year-old Pattie Mae Sheals' life changes forever. Pattie Mae adores and admires Uncle Buddy -- he's tall and handsome and he doesn't believe in the country stuff...
Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial
AuthorRonald Kidd
ISBN1416905723
Dayton is a sleepy little town nestled in the mountains of Tennessee. It is long across and about two miles wide. Despite being the home of Bryan College, a school with over 800 students from around the world, it clings persistently to its small-town feel. The local librarians know the gossip on almost...
Johnny Swanson
AuthorEleanor Updale
ISBN0385616422
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India Dark
AuthorKirsty Murray
ISBN1741758580
'India Dark' is the story of a troupe of Australian juvenile entertainers who go on tour in the Far East back in 1909-1910. Percival’s Liliputian Opera Company – known as the ‘Liliputians – is the creation of Mr Arthur Percival, a man who has recognised that an audience loves cute, charming children,...
A Place to Read
AuthorLeigh Hodgkinson
When I want to read,
what I really, really need,
is a place to sit . . .
just for a bit.

Somewhere comfy, NOT itchy-fuzzy, somewhere quiet, NOT buzz-buzzy.

The little reader in this book is having a hard time finding the ideal reading spot. Everywhere has noise, or smells,...
The Wonderful Book
AuthorLeonid Gore
ISBN0545085985
In this delightful story, a lost book transforms into whatever the finder needs it to be. An imaginative and original tale with all the elements of the best and most enduring children's book classics!

Deep in the woods, a rabbit finds a mysterious object. "What is this?" he asks. "It looks like...
A Door Near Here
AuthorHeather Quarles
ISBN0440227615
Without even noticing, 15-year-old Katherine has become the head of her household. She hasn't had time to notice. Her single mother, an out-of-work alcoholic, has been in bed for weeks, leaving Katherine and her three younger siblings to band together and fend for themselves. But it has gotten harder...
Half a Man
AuthorMichael Morpurgo
Revered author Michael Morpurgo remembers the post-war Britain of his childhood in this unflinching and deeply poignant tale of the physical and mental scars of war.
From a young age, Michael was both fascinated by and afraid of his grandfather. Grandpa’s ship was torpedoed during the Second...
Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me
AuthorNan Marino
ISBN1596434996
"Muscle Man McGinty is a squirrelly runt, a lying snake, and a pitiful excuse for a ten-year old......the problem is that no one knows it but me. In the entire town of Massapequa Park, only I can see him for what he really is. A phony.

It's the summer of 1969, and things are not only changing in Tamara's...
Give Me Back My Book!: (Funny Books for Kids, Silly Picture Books, Children's Books about Friendship)
AuthorEthan Long
ISBN1452160406
I wasn't sure if I was going to like this one. The illustrations are the sort of simple, cartoonish pictures that don't really excite me. But I did enjoy the story about two creatures--Redd and Bloo--who fight over a book... until Bookworm steals the book from both of them. Then they have to come up with...
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