The Kite Fighters
10 best books like The Kite Fighters (Linda Sue Park): Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Burying the Sun, Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, A Crooked Kind of Perfect, The Secret School, The Cat Who Went to Heaven, I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade, The Master Puppeteer, Midnight Rider, The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the "atom bomb disease," Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For...
| Author | Gloria Whelan |
| ISBN | 0060541121 |
The third book in the St. Petersburg Quartet depicts the horror of the 900 day siege of Leningrad.
Rich in historical detail, haunting in imagery, the tale of Georgi and Marya continues. Previously they traveled to Siberia to locate their parents.
Now residing in Leningrad, the characters...
| Author | Elizabeth Foreman Lewis |
| ISBN | 0805081135 |
A classic Newbery Award winner, with an introduction by Katherine Paterson and new illustrations
When Young Fu arrives with his mother in bustling 1920s Chungking, all he has seen of the world is the rural farming village where he has grown up. He knows nothing of city life. But the city, with...
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
| Author | Linda Urban |
| ISBN | 0152060073 |
Ten-year-old Zoe Elias has perfect piano dreams. She can practically feel the keys under her flying fingers; she can hear the audience's applause. All she needs is a baby grand so she can start her lessons, and then she'll be well on her way to Carnegie Hall.
But when Dad ventures to the music store...
More than anything, Ida Bidson wants to become a teacher. To do that, she must finish eighth grade, then go on to high school. But her dream falters when the one-room school in her remote Colorado town shuts down. Her only hope is to keep the school open without anyone finding out. Yet even a secret school...
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
| Author | Elizabeth Coatsworth |
| ISBN | 0689714335 |
This delightful little fable has a compilation of several meaningful animal stories within its pages with the cream of the crop saved for Good Fortune the cat.First published in 1930 and winner of the 1931 Newbery Medal, this wonderful little classic brings together an intelligent and loving white...
Born on the Mongolian steppes during the reign of Kublai Khan, Oyuna's future seems decided when, as an infant, her foot is crushed by a horse. Her clan believes she has been cursed by bad luck, and she is confined to her family's tent to cook and sew. But Oyuna dreams of bringing honor and good luck to her...
| Author | Katherine Paterson |
| ISBN | 0064402819 |
Who is the man called Sabura, the mysterious bandit who robs the rich and helps the poor? And what is his connection with Yosida, the harsh and ill- tempered master of feudal Japan's most famous puppet theater? Young Jiro, an apprentice to Yosida, is determined to find out, even at risk to his own life.
Meamwhile,...
| Author | Joan Hiatt Harlow |
| ISBN | 0689870108 |
Fourteen-year-old Hannah is an orphan living with her cruel aunt Phoebe in Salem, Massachusetts. Hannah recently lost her mother, and now her only comfort is her horse, Promise. But when her money-hungry aunt sells the horse and then indentures Hannah to the Boston family of a British general, Hannah...
| Author | Huynh Quang Nhuong |
| ISBN | 0064401839 |
An ALA Notable Children’s Book and a Booklist Editors’ Choice, about one young man’s memories of the land he called home.
The land I love was lost to me forever.
Huynh Quang Nhuong grew up in the highlands of Vietnam, next to the jungle teeming with wildlife. Encounters with tigers,...
| Author | Emily Crofford |
| ISBN | 0876146795 |
It is the mid-1800s and Manjiro, a young fisherman, is shipwrecked far off the coast of his native Japan. At this time in history, Japan is an isolated country that allows its citizens no contact with the rest of the world. Foreigners are called "barbarians"--and none are more despised than Americans....
| Author | Carolyn Treffinger |
| ISBN | 0802774687 |
While I do in some if not actually in many ways consider Carolyn Treffinger's Li Lun: Lad of Courage both readable and inspiring (that is to say I find the main protagonist's, I find Li Lun's courage, his inventiveness and his skills at solving the multitude of problems that his being sent to plant and grow...
| Author | Pearl S. Buck |
| ISBN | 0064401715 |
Kino lives on a farm on the side of a mountain in Japan. His friend, Jiya, lives in a fishing village below. Everyone, including Kino and Jiya, has heard of the big wave. No one suspects it will wipe out the whole village and Jiya's family, too. As Jiya struggles to overcome his sorrow, he understands it is...
| Author | Theodore Taylor |
| ISBN | 0440416965 |
Available for the first time in a Yearling edition, the classic, inspiring story of a dog who triumphs against all odds, by the bestselling author of The Cay.
Helen adored her beautiful golden Labrador from the first moment he was placed in her arms, a squirming fat sausage of creamy yellow fur....
A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home
| Author | Henry Cole |
| ISBN | 0061704105 |
Celeste is not your average mouse. She lives alone, quietly weaving baskets with creative flair under the floor boards of the Oakley Plantation. However, Celeste’s world turns upside down with the arrival of the great naturalist John James Audubon and his assistant Joseph, who have come to study...
| Author | Eugene Yelchin |
| ISBN | 0805092161 |
One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011
Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six:
The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.
A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.
A...
| Author | Gill Lewis |
| ISBN | 1442414456 |
The majestic Osprey is an endangered bird that hasn’t been seen in Scotland for years, so when Iona McNair locates an Osprey nest, she’s desperate to keep the bird safe from poachers. She shares her secret with her classmate Callum, and the two become friends as they work to save the Osprey they’ve...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0545823153 |
Cameron Boxer is very happy to spend his life avoiding homework, hanging out with his friends, and gaming for hours in his basement. It's not too hard for him to get away with it . . . until he gets so caught up in one game that he almost lets his house burn down around him.
Oops.
It's time for...
