Pearl Verses the World
10 best books like Pearl Verses the World (Sally Murphy): Won-Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku, Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances, My Happy Life, Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts About Peace, Never Forgotten, The Wild Book, Child of the Mountains, Worlds Afire, The Scar, Hugging the Rock
Won-Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku
| Author | Lee Wardlaw |
| ISBN | 0805089950 |
I'll be honest, the fact that the story was told entirely in Haiku was *not* a selling point for me when I picked it up. In fact, I was more than slightly skeptical...
| Author | Lenore Look |
| ISBN | 0375868313 |
Alvin's all freaked out and here's why:
1. He starts seeing bad omens...everywhere.
2....
| Author | Rose Lagercrantz |
| ISBN | 1877467804 |
Although "My Happy Life" is a chapter book, the chapters are short and packed full of illustrations. The story is
written from the viewpoint of a little girl just starting kindergarten. She lives with her Dad (her mother has passed away) and she likes to count the...
Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts About Peace
| Author | Anna Grossnickle Hines |
| ISBN | 0805089969 |
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
| ISBN | 0375843841 |
"Forceful and iconic," raved Publishers Weekly in a starred review. This gorgeous picture book by Newbery Honor winner Patricia C. McKissack and two-time Caldecott Medal-winning husband-and-wife team Leo and Diane Dillon is sure to become a treasured...
| Author | Margarita Engle |
| ISBN | 0547581319 |
| Author | Marilyn Sue Shank |
| ISBN | 0375989692 |
Growing up poor in 1953 in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia doesn’t bother Lydia Hawkins. She treasures her tight-knit family. There’s her loving mama, now widowed; her whip-smart younger brother, BJ, who has cystic fibrosis; and wise old Gran....
| Author | Paul B. Janeczko |
| ISBN | 0763622354 |
One summer afternoon in 1944, hundreds of circus lovers crowded under the big top in Hartford, Connecticut, breathlessly waiting...
| Author | Charlotte Moundlic |
| ISBN | 0763653411 |
When the boy in this story wakes to find that his mother has died, he is overwhelmed with sadness, anger, and fear that he will forget her. He shuts all...
| Author | Susan Taylor Brown |
| ISBN | 1582461805 |
| Author | Andrea Cheng |
| Author | Peter Johnson |
| ISBN | 0061988901 |
When an author comes to speak to his class in a rundown area of Providence,...
| Author | Nikki Grimes |
| ISBN | 1629797405 |
| Author | Amy Hest |
| ISBN | 0763636959 |
Annie Rossi never, ever thought her father would let her have a dog. But now that he’s finally given in, she’s found the perfect ear for the stories...
| Author | Julie Sternberg |
| ISBN | 1419710338 |
A very mean thing.
I HATE that I did it.
But I did.
This is worse than
carrot juice on a cupcake
or a wasp on my pillow
or a dress that’s too tight at the neck.
In the third installment from the team who created Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie and Like Bug...
| Author | Betsy Rosenthal |
| Author | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
| ISBN | 1406333859 |
| Author | Sally Grindley |
My uncle bought me one of your books for Christmas. It's called Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Boy? I want to be a writer. I want to write a story now. Please will you help me?
Love from Max
And so begins Max's funny correspondence with his favorite author, the world-famous...
| Author | Ron Koertge |
| ISBN | 0763662283 |
| Author | Kristine O'Connell George |
| ISBN | 0618428429 |
Applesauce Weather
| Author | Helen Frost |
| ISBN | 0763675768 |
When the first apple falls from the tree, Faith and Peter know that it’s applesauce weather, even though Peter is getting...
Word After Word After Word
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 0060279710 |
Every school day feels the same for fourth graders Lucy and Henry and Evie and Russell and May. Then Ms. Mirabel comes to their class—bringing magical words...