Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto
10 best books like Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto (Paul B. Janeczko): Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold, Then, Under the Mesquite, Hugging the Rock, Lemonade: and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word, Addie on the Inside, Diamond Willow, Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel: A Bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller, The Absolute Value of Mike, One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
| Author | Joyce Sidman |
| ISBN | 0547906501 |
First thing: there is a fox on the cover and a fox on each page and yet there is not a poem to a fox; why? OK, the poems are about animals surviving the cold winter in nature. They are good poems. Then on the side they give a block of text on how the animals actually survive the cold with facts. My niece loves the...
| Author | Morris Gleitzman |
| ISBN | 0141324821 |
In Then - Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War - Jewish orphan Felix and his best friend Zelda have been captured and are on the way to a concentration camp, unless they manage to escape . . .
A little hope goes a...
| Author | Guadalupe Garcia McCall |
| ISBN | 1600604293 |
Lupita, a budding actor and poet in a close-knit Mexican American immigrant family, comes of age as she struggles with adult responsibilities during her mother's battle with cancer in this young adult novel in verse.
When Lupita learns Mami has cancer, she is terrified by the possibility...
| Author | Susan Taylor Brown |
| ISBN | 1582461805 |
When her mom runs away from home, Rachel is left behind with her emotionally distant father and many questions she cannot answer. Over time, she learns the truth about her mom. But it's only when she learns the truth about her dad, the rock- immoveable and always there for her to lean on-that Rachel can...
| Author | Bob Raczka |
| ISBN | 1596435410 |
Play with your words! A brand new poetic form that turns word puzzles into poetry.
Part anagram, part rebus, part riddle--these poems capture a scene from a child's daily life and present a puzzle to solve. Sometimes sweet and sometimes funny, but always clever, these poems are fun to read and...
The Gang of Five is back in this much-anticipated follow-up to The Misfits and Totally Joe . Addie Carle, the only girl in the group of friends, is outspoken, opinionated, and sometimes…just a bit obnoxious. But as seventh grade progresses, Addie’s not so sure anymore about who she is. It seems her...
| Author | Helen Frost |
| ISBN | 0374317763 |
There's
more to me than
most people
see.
Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants,...
| Author | Xavier Garza |
| ISBN | 1933693983 |
Margarito acts like any other eleven-year-old aficionado of lucha libre. He worships all the players. But in the summer just before sixth grade, he tumbles over the railing at a match in San Antonio and makes a connection to the world of Mexican wrestling that will ultimately connect him—maybe by...
| Author | Kathryn Erskine |
| ISBN | 0399255052 |
Mike tries so hard to please his father, but the only language his dad seems to speak is calculus. And for a boy with a math learning disability, nothing could be more difficult. When his dad sends him to live with distant relatives in rural Pennsylvania for the summer to work on an engineering project,...
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
| Author | Nikki Grimes |
| ISBN | 1619635542 |
In this collection of poetry, Nikki Grimes looks afresh at the poets of the Harlem Renaissance -- including voices like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and many more writers of importance and resonance from this era -- by combining their work with her own original poetry. Using "The Golden...
| Author | Sheila O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0399254587 |
It's the summer before seventh grade, and twelve-year- old Raine O'Rourke's mother suddenly takes a job hours from home at mysterious Sparrow Road- a creepy, dilapidated mansion that houses an eccentric group of artists. As Raine tries to make sense of her new surroundings, she forges friendships...
