Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
10 best books like Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow (James Sturm): Stargazing, Sulwe, The Giver: Graphic Novel, Grass, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, Houdini: The Handcuff King, Bad Island, The Okay Witch, A Fire Story, 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente
Stargazing
| Author | Jen Wang |
When Moon’s family moves in next door to Christine’s, Moon goes from unlikely...
Sulwe
| Author | Lupita Nyong’o |
Sulwe has skin the color of midnight. She is darker than everyone in her family. She is darker than anyone in her school....
The Giver: Graphic Novel
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0544157885 |
Grass
| Author | Keum Suk Gendry-Kim |
| ISBN | 1770463623 |
Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World...
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 1328810151 |
Houdini: The Handcuff King
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 0786839023 |
Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so 80 years after his death. This is a snapshot of Houdini's life, centering on one of his most famous jumps. As Houdini prepares for a death-defying leap into the icy Charles River in Boston, biographer Jason...
| Author | Doug TenNapel |
| ISBN | 0545314798 |
When Reese is forced to go on a boating trip with his family, the last thing he expects is to be shipwrecked on an island-especially one teeming with weird plants and animals. But what starts out as simply a bad vacation turns into a terrible one, as the...
The Okay Witch
| Author | Emma Steinkellner |
| ISBN | 1534431454 |
Magic is harder than it looks.
...
A Fire Story
| Author | Brian Fies |
| ISBN | 1419735853 |
| Author | Wilfred Santiago |
| ISBN | 1560978929 |
It might be that already well-aware of the...
| Author | Joseph Lambert |
| ISBN | 1423113365 |
But in her lifetime, she learned to ride horseback and dance the foxtrot....
| Author | Vincent Bailly |
| ISBN | 1467707007 |
This Was Our Pact
| Author | Ryan Andrews |
| ISBN | 1626720533 |
It's the night of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival, when the town gathers to float paper lanterns down the river. Legend has it that after drifting out of sight, they'll soar off...
Pie in the Sky
| Author | Remy Lai |
To distract himself from the...
The Lie And How We Told It
| Author | Tommi Parrish |
Incognegro
| Author | Mat Johnson |
Southern Trees bear a strange fruit.
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root.
Black body swinging in the southern breeze.
Strange fruit hanging from the Poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant South.
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth.
Scent...