Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
10 best books like Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange (Elizabeth Partridge): The Pox Party, Climbing the Stairs, A Single Shard, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Have Space Suit—Will Travel (Heinlein's Juveniles, #12), Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, If I Ever Get Out of Here, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Hey, Kiddo, You Bring the Distant Near
| Author | M.T. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0763624020 |
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother -- a princess in exile from a faraway land -- are the only persons in their household assigned names....
| Author | Padma Venkatraman |
| ISBN | 0399247467 |
A remarkable debut novel set in India that shows one girl's struggle for independence.
During World War II and the last days of British occupation in India, fifteen-year-old Vidya dreams of attending college. But when her forward-thinking father is beaten senseless by the British police,...
| Author | Linda Sue Park |
| ISBN | 0440418518 |
Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch’ulp’o, a potters’ village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter’s craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. When Min takes Tree-ear...
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
| Author | Grace Lin |
| ISBN | 0316114278 |
In the valley of Fruitless Mountain, a young girl named Minli spends her days working hard in the fields and her nights listening to her father spin fantastic tales about the Jade Dragon and the Old Man of the Moon. Minli's mother, tired of their poor life, chides him for filling her head with nonsense....
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 1416505490 |
My first Robert A. Heinlein work read and still one of my favorites.
Heinlein produced his juvenile books for Charles Scribner's Sons mainly in the 1950s and these were what many consider to be some of his finest work. I’ve always thought that the period between 1957 and 1966 was his zenith,...
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 0786851759 |
This is a powerful story about Harriet and slavery. It does a good job talking about slavery and how bad it was without being too much for kids. Harriet made 19 trips into the South and freed around 300 people. That is pretty incredible. She was in constant conversation with God. She was the most successful...
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 | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 0763665312 |
A stirring collection of poems and spirituals, accompanied by stunning collage illustrations, recollects the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a champion of equal voting rights.
"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within...
| Author | Jarrett J. Krosoczka |
Hey, Kiddo is the graphic memoir of author-illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka. Raised by his colorful grandparents, who adopted him because his mother was an incarcerated heroin addict, Krosoczka didn't know his father's name until he saw his birth certificate when registering for a school ski trip....
| Author | Mitali Perkins |
| ISBN | 0374304904 |
4 Stars
A book about five complex Indian women and their relationship with culture and race?? How is nobody talking about this gem??
Starting in the 1960s and working towards modern day, this follows a young Bengali family as they move to NYC-- notably Ranee and her children, Tara and...
| Author | Katherine Roy |
| ISBN | 1626721785 |
The savanna is not an easy place to live, even for African elephants, the largest land animals on earth. If it's a challenge for these 7,000-pound giants, what's it like for their newborn babies?
An infant elephant has precious little time to learn the incredible array of skills that are necessary...
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote
| Author | Duncan Tonatiuh |
| ISBN | 1419705830 |
In this allegorical picture book, a young rabbit named Pancho eagerly awaits his papa’s return. Papa Rabbit traveled north two years ago to find work in the great carrot and lettuce fields to earn money for his family. When Papa does not return, Pancho sets out to find him. He packs Papa’s favorite...
The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes
| Author | Duncan Tonatiuh |
| ISBN | 1419721305 |
Award-winning author Duncan Tonatiuh reimagines one of Mexico’s cherished legends. Princess Izta had many wealthy suitors but dismissed them all. When a mere warrior, Popoca, promised to be true to her and stay always by her side, Izta fell in love. The emperor promised Popoca if he could defeat...
Newbery Honor winner Janet Taylor Lisle’s gorgeous and profound new novel about a pivotal summer in two girls’ lives explores the convictions we form, the judgments we make, and the values we hold.
The pond is called Quicksand Pond.
It’s a shadowy, hidden place, full of chirping,...
| Author | Jewell Parker Rhodes |
| ISBN | 0316043079 |
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a heartbreaking and uplifting tale of survival in the face of Hurricane Katrina.
Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown...
