The Heart of a Chief
10 best books like The Heart of a Chief (Joseph Bruchac): Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message, Child of Dandelions, Crossing Bok Chitto, Shi-shi-etko, Project Mulberry, I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery, Blue Jasmine, The Birchbark House, A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (砂漠に咲いたひまわり) Japanese/ English Bilingual, Son of a Gun
| Author | Jake Swamp |
| ISBN | 1880000547 |
The new addition to our morning devotional . . . The Thanksgiving Address of my people, adapted into children's literature by Chief Jake Swamp, with beautiful illustrations by Erwin Printup, Jr., is breathing the new life of gratitude into our daily round in bright and peaceful and simple and truthful...
| Author | Shenaaz Nanji |
| ISBN | 1932425934 |
A breathtaking account of one girl's determination to triumph over a devastating historical event. In Uganda in 1972, President Idi Amin, also known as the Last King of Scotland, announces that foreign Indians must be "weeded" out of Uganda in ninety days. Fifteen-year-old Sabine's life is changed...
| Author | Tim Tingle |
| ISBN | 0938317776 |
There is a river called Bok Chitto that cuts through Mississippi. In the days before the War Between the States, in the days before the Trail of Tears, Bok Chitto was a boundary. On one side of the river lived the Choctaws. On the other side lived the plantation owners and their slaves. If a slave escaped...
| Author | Nicola I. Campbell |
| ISBN | 0888996594 |
Winner of the Anskohk Aboriginal Children's Book of the Year Award. Finalist for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award
In just four days young Shi-shi-etko will have to leave her family and all that she knows to attend...
| Author | Linda Sue Park |
| ISBN | 0440421632 |
Julia Song and her friend Patrick want to team up to win a blue ribbon at the state fair, but they can't agree on the perfect project. Then Julia's mother suggests they raise silkworms as she did years ago in Korea. The optimistic twosome quickly realizes that raising silkworms is a lot tougher than they...
| Author | Cynthia Grady |
| ISBN | 0802853862 |
This rich and intricate collection of poems chronicles the various experiences of American slaves. Drawn together through imagery drawn from quilting and fiber arts, each poem is spoken from a different perspective: a house slave, a mother losing her daughter to the auction block, a blacksmith,...
| Author | Kashmira Sheth |
| ISBN | 0786855657 |
When twelve-year-old Seema Trivedi learns that she and her family must move from their small Indian town to Iowa City, she realizes she'll have to say good-bye to the purple-jeweled mango trees and sweet-smelling jasmine, to the monsoon rains and the bustling market. More important, she must leave...
| Author | Louise Erdrich |
| ISBN | 0786814543 |
Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books. With The Birchbark House, award-winning author Louise Erdrich's first novel for young readers, this same slice of history is seen through the eyes of the...
| Author | Amy Lee-Tai |
| ISBN | 0892392150 |
Under the harsh summer sun, Mari's art class has begun. But it's hard to think of anything to draw in a place where nothing beautiful grows—especially a place like Topaz, the internment camp where Mari's family and thousands of other Japanese Americans have been sent to live during World War II. Somehow,...
| Author | Anne de Graaf |
| ISBN | 0802854060 |
Based on true stories of former child soldiers interviewed by the author in Liberia, Son of a Gun describes the journey of a brother and sister, ten-year-old Lucky and eight-year-old Nopi, who are kidnapped from school and forced to become child soldiers.
Lucky and Nopi manage to escape with the...
| Author | Sonia Manzano |
| ISBN | 0545325056 |
One of America’s most influential Hispanics -- 'Maria' on Sesame Street -- presents a powerful novel set in New York's El Barrio in 1969
There are two secrets Evelyn Serrano is keeping from her Mami and Papo? her true feelings about growing up in her Spanish Harlem neighborhood, and her...
| Author | Cynthia Leitich Smith |
| ISBN | 0688173977 |
It's been six months since her best friend died, and up until now Rain has succeeded in shutting herself off from the world. But when controversy arises around her aunt Georgia's Indian Camp in their mostly white midwestern community, Rain decides to face the outside world again—at least through...
| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 1423142578 |
HAND IN HAND presents the stories of ten men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. The stories are accessible, fully-drawn narratives offering the subjects' childhood influences, the time and place in which they lived,...
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
| ISBN | 0670060119 |
Why has their grandmother bothered keeping a menu from a restaurant that closed years ago, a restaurant that never served very good food in the first place? Three cousins listen to Gee's own story, set in the early days of lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, a time when a black child could sit up front in...
| Author | Marie Bradby |
| ISBN | 0531094642 |
Simply put a beautiful story on reading with beautiful imagery. However, “More Than Anything Else” was more than that. It had a likable character named Booker to follow throughout the story. It compared grasping or “holding” on to something, a frog, with grasping knowledge or learning to...
| Author | Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve |
| ISBN | 0823421341 |
Virginia's coat is too small and hardly protects her from the frigid South Dakata winter. As Christmas approaches, all the children on the Sioux reservation look forward to receiving boxes full of clothing sent by congregations in the East. Virginia spots a beautiful gray fur coat but holds back tears...
| Author | Ellen Levine |
| ISBN | 0698118707 |
In this inspiring collection of true stories, thirty African-Americans who were children or teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s talk about what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South-to sit in an all-white restaurant and demand to be served, to refuse to give up a seat at the front of the bus,...
| Author | Richard Van Camp |
| ISBN | 1551436612 |
Review: Welcome Song for Baby
VanCamp, R. (2007). Welcome Song for Baby; A lullaby for newborns. Victoria, B.C., Canada:
Orca Book Publishers.
Why the book was chosen
The book Welcome Song for Baby is beautiful on the outside. The book features a picture
of a newborn...
| Author | Sundee T. Frazier |
| ISBN | 0385734409 |
The close relationship of a pair of biracial twins is tested when their grandmother enters them in a pageant for African American girls in this new story from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner Sundee T. Frazier.
When Minerva and Keira King were born, they made headlines:...
| Author | Simon J. Ortiz |
| ISBN | 0892390417 |
I read the 40th Anniversary edition which includes what I believe to be an added note from the author, Simon J. Ortiz He gives us a summary of the history of the People (or what many think of as Native Americans). This book is the perfect mentor text to introduce young students to the struggles of the People...
| Author | Francisco Jiménez |
| ISBN | 0618342486 |
At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jiménez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home in California, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. In the months...
| Author | Trudy Ludwig |
| ISBN | 1582463093 |
After Katie gets caught teasing a schoolmate, she's told to meet with Mrs. Petrowski, the school counselor, so she can make right her wrong and learn to be a better friend. Bothered at first, it doesn't take long before Katie realizes that bullying has hurt not only the people around her, but her, too....
Free Boy: A True Story of Slave and Master
| Author | Lorraine McConaghy |
| ISBN | 0295992719 |
"Free Boy" is the story of a 13-year-old slave who escaped from Washington Territory to freedom in Canada on the West's underground railroad. When James Tilton came to Washington Territory as surveyor-general in the 1850s he brought with his household young Charles Mitchell, a slave he had likely...
