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10 best books like Standing Against the Wind (Traci L. Jones): Jazz On A Saturday Night (Coretta Scott King Honor Book), Eighth-Grade Superzero, Barfing in the Backseat: How I Survived My Family Road Trip, Unstoppable Octobia May, Beautiful Blackbird, I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, Dark Sons, Denim Diaries 1: 16 Going on 21, Revenge of a Not-So-Pretty Girl, All About Vee

Jazz On A Saturday Night (Coretta Scott King Honor Book)
AuthorLeo Dillon
ISBN0590478931
Celebrated illustrators Leo and Diane Dillon have won the Caldecott Medal twice, and now they present stunning illustrations of an evening of jazz music, complete with a special CD.

If you have ever been lucky enough to hear great jazz, then you will understand the pure magic of this book. Leo...
Eighth-Grade Superzero
AuthorOlugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
ISBN0545096766
In this terrific debut, a Brooklyn middle-schooler finds the superhero within himself thanks to old friends, new dreams, and a pair of magical "Dora the Explorer" sneakers.

Ever since a deeply unfortunate incident earlier this year, Reggie's been known as "Pukey" McKnight at his high-intensity...
Barfing in the Backseat: How I Survived My Family Road Trip
AuthorHenry Winkler
ISBN0448443287
Hank?s dad has decided to enter a crossword-puzzle tournament, and he wants to make a family road trip of it! So the family piles into the car?along with Frankie and Katherine the iguana (Hank and Emily each get to bring a ?friend?). When they reach their destination, they?ll get to spend the day at a roller-coaster...
Unstoppable Octobia May
AuthorSharon G. Flake
ISBN0545609607
Octobia May is girl filled with questions. Her heart condition makes her special - and, some folks would argue, gives this ten-year-old powers that make her a "wise soul." Thank goodness for Auntie, who convinces Octobia's parents to let her live in her boarding house that is filled with old folks. That's...
Beautiful Blackbird
AuthorAshley Bryan
ISBN0689847319
Black is beautiful, uh-huh!

Long ago, Blackbird was voted the most beautiful bird in the forest. The other birds, who were colored red, yellow, blue, and green, were so envious that they begged Blackbird to paint their feathers with a touch of black so they could be beautiful too. Although...
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0142405558
3 soft snickerdoodles.

Cover Love: No, but I saw there were several editions of this book and many other great covers.

Why I Wanted to Read This:
My library has a bunch of Jacqueline Woodson books and I keep meaning to read some of them. I saw mention of this one in an article so I went...
Dark Sons
AuthorNikki Grimes
ISBN1423102517
Sam can't believe it when his father leaves the family to marry another woman--and a white woman, at that. The betrayal cuts deep--Sam had been so close to his dad, he idolized him. Now who can he turn to, who can he trust? Even God seems to have ditched him.

Ishmael is his father's first son, the...
Denim Diaries 1: 16 Going on 21
AuthorDarrien Lee
ISBN1933967714
This week I have started reading '16 Going on 21' by Darrien Lee. So far this book is really intense it jumps straight into the action. Denim and Dré have been friends since they were three years old and it is clear how much they love each other. The only thing in their way is Denim's annoying and overbearing...
Revenge of a Not-So-Pretty Girl
AuthorCarolita Blythe
Faye doesn't mean to hit the old lady she and her friends are mugging. But she does. The old lady isn't moving, but Faye has no reason to feel guilty for leaving her there. The old lady might be ancient and wrinkly now. But back in the day, she was as beautiful as they come—a famous movie star. And everyone...
All About Vee
AuthorC. Leigh Purtill
ISBN1595141804
Veronica May ("Big Vee") is a bubbly, gorgeous, confident, eighteen-year-old theater actress from Chester, Arizona. She is also two hundred pounds. She puts off college, her life, and her questions about her mother's death twelve years earlier to care for her widowed father. Then Daddy announces...
Ellington Was Not a Street
AuthorNtozake Shange
ISBN0689828845
In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of innovators that often gathered there. These men of vision, brought to life in the majestic paintings of artist Kadir Nelson, lived at a time when the color...
The Blacker the Berry
AuthorJoyce Carol Thomas
ISBN0060253754
Black is dazzling and distinctive, like toasted wheat berry bread; snowberries in the fall; rich, red cranberries; and the bronzed last leaves of summer. In this lyrical and luminous poetry collection, Coretta Scott King honorees Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper celebrate these many shades of...
Bird
AuthorZetta Elliott
Young Mekhai, better known as Bird, loves to draw. With drawings, he can erase the things that don't turn out right. In real life, problems aren't so easily fixed.

As Bird struggles to understand the death of his beloved grandfather and his older brother's drug addiction, he escapes into his...
What They Found: Love on 145th Street
AuthorWalter Dean Myers
ISBN0385321384
WALTER DEAN MYERS returns to the world of 145th Street: Short Stories to show how love can be found, and thrive, in the most unlikely places. Curtis finds love in Iraq as he struggles to stay alive in a war he doesn't want to fight, and Letha discovers her own beauty in the love of her child. There is the "good...
The Secret Olivia Told Me
AuthorN. Joy
ISBN1933491086
The premise is, Olivia tells her friend a secret, and the friend accidentally spills it, and it keeps getting spread -- and getting distorted as it spreads -- until the friend confesses to Olivia that she screwed up. The nameless friend narrates the book. It's a Coretta Scott King honor book for the illustrations.

So...
Tell Us We're Home
AuthorMarina Budhos
ISBN1416903526
Jaya, Maria, and Lola are just like the other eighth-grade girls in the wealthy suburb of Meadowbrook, New Jersey. They want to go to the spring dance, they love spending time with their best friends after school, sharing frappés and complaining about the other kids. But there’s one big difference:...
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
ISBN0803728603
When four courageous black teens sat down at a lunch counter in the segregated South of 1960, the reverberations were felt both far beyond and close to home. This insightful story offers a child's-eye view of this seminal event in the American Civil Rights Movement. Connie is used to the signs and customs...
What I Call Life
AuthorJill Wolfson
ISBN0805076697
I haven’t even explained yet about the Knitting Lady. Who is she? How did I wind up on her doorstep? How did I meet the other girls who became my friends—no, they became more than friends—despite the fact that they drove me absolutely crazy.

I need to take a giant step back, return myself...
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