Rain Is Not My Indian Name
8 best books like Rain Is Not My Indian Name (Cynthia Leitich Smith): The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child, If I Ever Get Out of Here, Here If You Need Me, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun, The Day of the Pelican, So Far from the Bamboo Grove, Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story, They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
| Author | Francisco Jiménez |
| ISBN | 0826317979 |
These independent but intertwined stories follow a migrant family through their circuit, from picking cotton and strawberries to topping carrots - and back again - over a number of years. As it moves from one labor camp to the next, the little family of four grows into ten. Impermanence and poverty define...
If I Ever Get Out of Here
| Author | Eric Gansworth |
| ISBN | 0545417309 |
Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him -- people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town...
| Author | Kate Braestrup |
| ISBN | 0316066303 |
When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was ten years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream of becoming a Unitarian minister, and eventually began working with the Maine Game Warden Service, which...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0590458817 |
Jacqueline Woodson's remarkable, award-winning story of a boy coming to grips a sudden change in his family.
Melanin Sun's mother has some big news: she's in love with a woman. Now he has many decisions to make: Should he stand by his mother even though it could mean losing his friends? Should...
| Author | Katherine Paterson |
| ISBN | 0547181884 |
Meli Lleshi is positive that her drawing of her teacher with his pelican nose started it all. The Lleshis are Albanians living in Kosovo, a country trying to fight off Serbian oppressors, and suddenly they are homeless refugees. Old and young alike, they find their courage tested by hunger, illness,...
So Far from the Bamboo Grove
| Author | Yoko Kawashima Watkins |
| ISBN | 0688131158 |
Prequel to My Brother, My Sister, and I. Though Japanese, eleven-year-old Yoko has lived with her family in northern Korea near the border with China all her life. But when the Second World War comes to an end, Japanese on the Korean peninsula are suddenly in terrible danger; the Korean people want control...
Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story
| Author | Isabel Gillies |
| ISBN | 1439110077 |
Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life -- a handsome, intelligent, loving husband; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, that life was over. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving her and their two...
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:...
