Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
10 best books like Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam (Walter Dean Myers): Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen, Crossing Bok Chitto, The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo, So Far from the Sea, Uncle Andy's: A Faabbbulous Visit With Andy Warhol, Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War, Dad, Jackie, and Me, Sweetgrass Basket, Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart, The Cats In Krasinski Square
| Author | Michelle R. McCann |
| ISBN | 1582460981 |
Why am I still alive? Why was I spared?
One night in 1944, Luba Tryszynska’s questions were answered when she found fifty-four children abandoned behind the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Luba knew if the Nazis caught her she could be executed.
But they are someone’s children....
| Author | Tim Tingle |
| ISBN | 0938317776 |
There is a river called Bok Chitto that cuts through Mississippi. In the days before the War Between the States, in the days before the Trail of Tears, Bok Chitto was a boundary. On one side of the river lived the Choctaws. On the other side lived the plantation owners and their slaves. If a slave escaped...
| Author | Tom Feelings |
| ISBN | 0803718047 |
"If the Atlantic were to dry up, it would reveal a scattered pathway of human bones, African bones marking the various routes of the Middle Passage." In the introduction of this heart wrenching book written by Tom Feelings, Dr. John Henrik Clarke tries to describe the amount of African people whom lost...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0395720958 |
Laura Iwasaki and her family are paying what may be their last visit to Laura's grandfather's grave. The grave is at Manzanar, where thousands of Americans of Japanese heritage were interned during World War II. Among those rounded up and taken to the internment camp were Laura's father, then a small...
Uncle Andy's: A Faabbbulous Visit With Andy Warhol
| Author | James Warhola |
| ISBN | 0399238697 |
When James Warhola was a little boy, his father had a junk business that turned their yard into a wonderful play zone that his mother didn't fully appreciate! But whenever James and his family drove to New York City to visit Uncle Andy, they got to see how "junk" could become something truly amazing in an...
Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War
| Author | Yukio Tsuchiya |
| ISBN | 0395861373 |
Although Yukio Tsuchiya's 1988 picture book Faithful Elephants (well actually, the author wrote the story in the immediate post WWII period, in 1951, but this here picture book was originally published in 1988) most definitely has a strong and also powerful anti-war (and thus also a pro peace) message,...
| Author | Myron Uhlberg |
| ISBN | 1561453293 |
"It was Opening Day, 1947. And every kid in Brooklyn knew this was our year. The Dodgers were going to go all the way!"
It is the summer of 1947 and a highly charged baseball season is underway in New York. Jackie Robinson is the new first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers--and the first black player in...
| Author | Marlene Carvell |
| ISBN | 0525475478 |
In prose poetry and alternating voices, Marlene Carvell weaves a heartbreakingly beautiful story based on the real-life experiences of Native American children. Mattie and Sarah are two Mohawk sisters who are sent to an off-reservation school after the death of their mother. Subject to intimidation...
| Author | Vera B. Williams |
| ISBN | 0060571829 |
This book of poetry is about how two sisters deal with the loss of having their father go to jail. The father goes to jail because he forged a check from his former employer. Amber and Essie find comfort in each other and they take care of each other. The poem "Best Sandwich" tells about how the sister cuddle...
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 0439435404 |
Newbery medalist Karen Hesse tells a harrowing, true story about life in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
When Karen Hesse came upon a short article about cats out-foxing the Gestapo at the train station in Warsaw during WWII, she couldn't get the story out of her mind. The result is this stirring account...
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 1590784405 |
A poetic tribute to the victims of the racially motivated church bombing that served as a seminal event in the struggle for civil rights. In 1963, the eyes of the world were on Birmingham, Alabama, a flashpoint for the civil rights movement. Birmingham was one of the most segregated cities in the United...
| Author | Ann Grifalconi |
| ISBN | 0142401900 |
Young Abikanile and all of the villagers of Yao feel safe hidden deep within the African jungle. But word has come that the slavers are on their way! Abikanile looks to her mother and her grandmother for strength and guidance. These two brave women come up with a plan to fool the slavers and protect their...
| Author | Barbara Kerley |
| ISBN | 0439357918 |
The pioneering team that brought you the Caldecott Honor-winning THE DINOSAURS OF WATERHOUSE HAWKINS focuses their remarkable skills and vision on Walt Whitman--poet, American, Civil War hero.
Did you know that poet Walt Whitman was also a Civil War nurse? Devastated by his country dividing...
| Author | Paul B. Janeczko |
| ISBN | 0763606618 |
Even kids who don’t know they like poetry will love this playful, visually accessible collection of thirty concrete poems—illustrated by a Caldecott Honor artist!
Concrete poems startle and delight the eye and mind. The size and arrangement of words—or even just letters on the page...
| Author | Naomi Shihab Nye |
| ISBN | 0689817061 |
A beautiful picture book about family and love across distance.
Mona’s grandmother, her Sitti, lives in a small Palestinian village on the other side of the earth. Once, Mona went to visit her.
The couldn’t speak each other’s language, so they made up their own. They learned...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0786806206 |
Johsnon and his sister, Beebee, seem to be all alone in the world. Their mama has gone away many times before, but something tells them that this time she won't be coming back. Then a social worker comes and takes them to meet their Aunt Gracie. Beebee barely remembers her, and Mama never even told Johnson...
| Author | Eileen Christelow |
| ISBN | 0618486062 |
Using a town’s mayoral election as a model, this lively introduction to voting covers every step in the process, from the start of the campaign all the way to the voting booth. There’s even a recount! The cast of characters includes two dogs (and a cat), whose questions and comments mirror those of...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0316968609 |
This one caught my eye because I'm a fan of Barbara Cooney's ethereal artwork, but there's a fascinating, though ultimately sad story here - the flooding of a New England valley to create the Quabbin Reservoir.
So it was voted in Boston to drown our towns
that the people of the city might drink.
We...
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
| ISBN | 0689851944 |
When Precious is left home alone with a stomachache, she's got nothing but a warning from Mama -- "Don't let nothing or nobody into this house" -- to keep her company. You see, "nothing or nobody" could turn out to be something awful: the Boo Hag! The Boo Hag's got a voice that rumbles like thunder and hair...
The Enemy: A Book About Peace
| Author | Davide Calì |
| ISBN | 0375845003 |
I pulled this book off my shelves when thinking about Dresden this week. I love this book. It says so much using so little. Two soldiers, sitting opposite each other in their separate foxholes, are enemies because their manuals told them they were enemies.
One solider claims his enemy isn't...
John Henry swims better than anyone I know.
He crawls like a catfish,
blows bubbles like a swamp monster,
but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me.
He's not allowed.
Joe and John Henry are a lot alike. They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love...
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
| Author | Kathleen Krull |
| ISBN | 0152020985 |
Before Wilma Rudolph was five years old, polio had paralyzed her left leg. Everyone said she would never walk again. But Wilma refused to believe it. Not only would she walk again, she vowed, she'd run. And she did run--all the way to the Olympics, where she became the first American woman to earn three...
| Author | Shirin Yim Bridges |
| ISBN | 0811834905 |
Ruby is unlike most little girls in old China. Instead of aspiring to get married, Ruby is determined to attend university when she grows up, just like the boys in her family. Based upon the inspirational story of the author's grandmother and accompanied by richly detailed illustrations, Ruby's Wish...
What are You So Grumpy About?
| Author | Tom Lichtenheld |
| ISBN | 0316592366 |
A good book to read to a child when he or she is out of sorts. The book asks a series of questions to determine why the child is grumpy. "Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed?" "Did you get a package on your birthday...and it turned out to be boring stuff?" The pictures are humorous, but sometimes it's difficult...
