Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom

10 best books like Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom (Katherine Paterson): The Twenty-One Balloons, Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, Navigating Early, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster, Bull Run, Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun, The Story of Salt, Broken Things to Mend, Muddy: Where Faith and Polygamy Collide -- A Historical Novel, In the Land of the Jaguar: South America and Its People

The Twenty-One Balloons

Author	William Pène du Bois
ISBN	0140320970

One month after graduating from college, I started working. That was in 1984. I am now in my 4th company and except for my paid vacation leaves and rare sick days, I have never been, even a single day, out of the corporate rate race.

27 years of working and trying to earn a living.

I know it...

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

Author	Dusti Bowling
ISBN	1454923458

Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing...

Navigating Early

Author	Clare Vanderpool
ISBN	0385742096

At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother’s death and placed in a boy’s boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of...

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

Author

Jonathan Auxier

For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on "climbing boys"--orphans owned by chimney sweeps--to clean flues and protect homes from fire. The work was hard, thankless and brutally dangerous. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived--and a girl. With her...

Bull Run

Author	Paul Fleischman
ISBN	0064405885

Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book

In this brilliant fictional tour de force, which the New York Times called "a deft, poignant novel," Newbery Medal-winning author Paul Fleischman re-creates the first...

Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun

Author	Rhoda Blumberg
ISBN	0060086254

In 1853, few Japanese people knew that a country called America even existed. For centuries, Japan had isolated itself from the outside world by refusing to trade with other countries and even refusing to help shipwrecked sailors, foreign or Japanese. The country's people still lived under a feudal...

The Story of Salt

Author	Mark Kurlansky
ISBN	0399239987

From the team that created the ALA Notable Book The Cod's Tale comes the fascinating history of salt, which has been the object of wars and revolutions and is vital for life. Based on Mark Kurlansky's critically acclaimed bestseller Salt: A World History, this handsome picture book explores every aspect...

Broken Things to Mend

Author

Karey White

Celia is in desperate need of a change--a change of scenery, a change of pace, and a complete redo of all relationships. Not knowing what else to do, she opens a map, closes her eyes, and lets fate decide her future. Then she packs her meager belongings and buys a one-way ticket to a little town on the...

Muddy: Where Faith and Polygamy Collide -- A Historical Novel

Author	Dean Hughes
ISBN	1629725854

When Brigham Young summons young Morgan Davis to his office and calls him to join other missionaries in settling the Muddy River Valley (what is now Nevada), Morgan can’t imagine what lies in store. He has just two weeks to find a wife and gather enough belongings to help start a settlement.

As...

In the Land of the Jaguar: South America and Its People

Author	Gena K. Gorrell
ISBN	0887767567

South America’s story is as varied as its geography of soaring mountains, scorching deserts, and lush rainforests. In Ecuador alone, there are 25,000 kinds of plants, 1,500 species of birds, 4,500 different butterflies, and 300 mammals! Gena K. Gorrell’s brilliant text combines an often tragic...