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The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad

10 best books like The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad (F.N. Monjo): Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Follow the Drinking Gourd, Across Five Aprils, A Seed Is Sleepy, Pink and Say, Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story, Buffalo Bill, Walking with Miss Millie, Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass, The Memory Coat

Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
AuthorMac Barnett
ISBN0763662291
With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor.

Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing....
Follow the Drinking Gourd
AuthorJeanette Winter
ISBN0679819975
Illus. in full color. "Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd (the Big Dipper). A couple, their son, and two others make their escape by...
Across Five Aprils
AuthorIrene Hunt
ISBN0425182789
Do they make kid's books like this sort anymore? Real and real painful. Across Five Aprils was required reading in 6th grade and it was as if the teacher's were saying "Life's a bitch, get used to it."

I remember this as eloquently rendered and high-minded, gut-wrenching drama when I read it way...
A Seed Is Sleepy
AuthorDianna Hutts Aston
ISBN0811855201
The illustrations are glorious. They’re also accurate and very educational. This is an outstanding science book about seeds and the plants that come from them. The text is convincing about just how amazing seeds are. At first I didn’t like the adjective headings, but I quickly changed my mind because...
Pink and Say
AuthorPatricia Polacco
ISBN0399226710
3.5 stars. Such a sad story. As you might expect from a Patricia Polacco book, this is uplifting and gives you hope in human nature and it is heartbreakingly sad and makes you despair too.

The American Civil war is something I know very little about, this gives you a taste of what it was like for young...
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
AuthorKen Mochizuki
ISBN1584301570
In 1940, five-year-old Hiroki Sugihara, the eldest son of the Japanese consul to Lithuania, saw from the consulate window hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland. They had come to Hiroki's father with a desperate request: Could consul Sugihara write visas for them to escape the Nazi threat?

The...
Buffalo Bill
AuthorIngri d'Aulaire
ISBN0964380374
I've often considered the "Wild West" to be fascinating. Cowboys, buffalo, Indians, wagons and life on the pioneer are tantalizing elements of fiction. Perhaps I read a little too much Little House on the Prairie as a girl.

Of all the famous elements of the west, the person who most embodies...
Walking with Miss Millie
AuthorTamara Bundy
ISBN0399544569
A poignant middle grade debut about the friendship between a white girl and an elderly black woman in the 1960s South

Alice is angry at having to move to Rainbow, Georgia—a too small, too hot, dried-up place she’s sure will never feel like home. Then she gets put in charge of walking her elderly...
Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass
AuthorLesa Cline-Ransome
ISBN1416959033
The inspirational, true story of how Frederick Douglass found his way to freedom one word at a time.

This picture book biography chronicles the youth of Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent African American figures in American history. Douglass spent his life advocating for the...
The Memory Coat
AuthorElvira Woodruff
ISBN0590677179
In the story The Memory Coat by Elvira Woodruff,Elvia uses a different technique to express how Rachel acts like a sister to Grisha. When everyone wanted Grisha to get a new coat so, they had a better chance to enter America. Rachel sticks up for him. Rachel explains to the family why the coat was important...
The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse
AuthorMac Barnett
After reading a delightful and positive review here I couldn't resist picking up this book. I love children's stories with animals and nature and am a huge fan of wolves and stories featuring mice. The duck was not so important but hey, the duck turned out to be the key player in this story so...

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A Drop of Blood
AuthorPaul Showers
You've seen your own blood, when you have a cut or a scrape. You can see the veins in your wrist, and you've seen the scab that forms as a cut heals. But do you know what blood does for you? Without blood, you couldn't play, or grow, or learn. That's because just about every part of your body needs blood, from...
If You Give a Dog a Donut
AuthorLaura Joffe Numeroff
If you give a dog a donut, he’ll ask for some apple juice to go with it.

When you give him the juice, he’ll drink it all up.

Then, before you can say “Woof” . . . Dog is off on a backyard adventure!

The exuberant dog who first appeared in if you give a pig a party is now the star...
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