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10 best books like The Legend of Buddy Bush (Shelia P. Moses): Wanting Mor, If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks, Forgotten Fire, How I Found the Strong, A Mother for Choco, Jumped, Spellbound, This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie, Kipling's Choice, Autobiography of My Dead Brother

Wanting Mor
AuthorRukhsana Khan
ISBN0888998589
Jameela and her family live in a poor, war-torn village in Afghanistan. Even with her cleft lip and lack of educational opportunities, Jameela feels relatively secure, sustained by her Muslim faith and the love of her mother, Mor. But when Mor dies, Jameela’s father impulsively decides to start...
If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
AuthorFaith Ringgold
ISBN0689856768

If a bus could talk, it would tell the story of a young African-American girl named Rosa who had to walk miles to her one-room schoolhouse in Alabama while white children rode to their school in a bus. It would tell how the adult Rosa rode to and from work on a segregated city bus and couldn't sit in the...
Forgotten Fire
AuthorAdam Bagdasarian
ISBN0440229170
A National Book Award Finalist.

In 1915 Vahan Kenderian is living a life of privilege as the youngest son of a wealthy Armenian family in Turkey. This secure world is shattered when some family members are whisked away while others are murdered before his eyes.

Vahan loses his home...
How I Found the Strong
AuthorMargaret McMullan
ISBN0553494929
In 1861 Frank “Shanks” Russell wishes he was old enough to fight for the South alongside his pa and big brother. But Frank is too young, skinny, and weak, and is left behind with his mother and grandparents. Life in Mississippi was simple before the war between North and South. Now Frank’s boyhood...
A Mother for Choco
AuthorKeiko Kasza
ISBN0698113640
Family is about love no matter how different parents and children may be, adopted or not.

Choco wishes he had a mother, but who could she be? He sets off to find her, asking all kinds of animals, but he doesn't meet anyone who looks just like him. He doesn't even think of asking Mrs. Bear if she's his...
Jumped
AuthorRita Williams-Garcia
ISBN0060760915
The wrong angle Trina: "Hey," I say, though I don't really know them. The boyed-up basketball girl barely moves. The others, her girls, step aside. It's okay if they don't speak. I know how it is. They can't all be Trina. Dominique: Some stupid little flit cuts right in between us and is like, "Hey." Like...
Spellbound
AuthorJanet McDonald
Raven never expected to be a mother at sixteen. Is she going to be just another high school dropout, a project girl with few prospects? Could be, except Raven has ambition. Still, when is she going to find the time to finish school? Then her older sister tells her about a spelling bee that promises the winner...
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
AuthorElizabeth Partridge
ISBN0670035351
Before Springsteen and before Dylan, there was Woody Guthrie. With "This Machine Kills Fascists," scrawled across his guitar in big black letters, Woody Guthrie brilliantly captured in song the experience of twentieth-century America. Whether he sang about union organizers, migrant workers,...
Kipling's Choice
AuthorGeert Spillebeen
ISBN0618800352
As a young man, Rudyard Kipling was devastated when his military application was rejected because of poor eyesight. Although Rudyard would go on to win England’s highest accolades, he never got over this lost opportunity to serve his country.

When World War I broke out, John, like his father...
Autobiography of My Dead Brother
AuthorWalter Dean Myers
ISBN0060582936
Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers has written a realistic urban novel that probes a fatal crisis in the life of two boys. Jesse, the book's narrator, and Rise are best friends, but as time passes, Rise grows increasingly alienated and unpredictable. Living in a neighborhood where gang fights and...
Shin-chi's Canoe
AuthorNicola I. Campbell
ISBN0888998570
When they arrive at school, Shi-shi-etko reminds Shinchi, her six-year-old brother, that they can only use their English names and that they can't speak to each other. For Shinchi, life becomes an endless cycle of church mass, school, and work, punctuated by skimpy meals. He finds solace at the river,...
New Boy
AuthorJulian Houston
ISBN0618432531
Fifteen-year-old Rob Garrett wants nothing more than to escape the segregated South and prove himself. But in late 1950s Virginia, opportunity doesn’t come easily to an African American. So Rob’s parents take the unusual step of enrolling their son in a Connecticut boarding school, where he...
The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students
AuthorSuzanne Tripp Jurmain
ISBN0618473025
They threw rocks and rotten eggs at the school windows. Villagers refused to sell Miss Crandall groceries or let her students attend the town church. Mysteriously, her schoolhouse was set on fire—by whom and how remains a mystery. The town authorities dragged her to jail and put her on trial for breaking...
A Summer of Kings
AuthorHan Nolan
ISBN0152051082
It's 1963 and fourteen-year-old Esther Young is looking for excitement. Cursed with a lack of talent in a family filled with artistic types, Esther vows to get some attention by initiating a summer romance with a black teen accused of murdering a white man in Alabama.

King-Roy Johnson shows...
Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad
AuthorJames Rumford
ISBN1596432764
WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sound of war with a pen.
 
Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of all, he loves the ancient art of calligraphy. When bombs begin to fall on his city, Ali turns to his pen, writing sweeping and gliding words...
Our Gracie Aunt
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0786806206
Johsnon and his sister, Beebee, seem to be all alone in the world. Their mama has gone away many times before, but something tells them that this time she won't be coming back. Then a social worker comes and takes them to meet their Aunt Gracie. Beebee barely remembers her, and Mama never even told Johnson...
Shadows Of Guilt
AuthorAnne Schraff
ISBN1616510013
Themes: Hi-Lo, High school, neighborhoods, family, loyalty, friendship, urban teen fiction, gangs, drive-by shooting, mystery, suspense, alcohol abuse. Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty,...
Freedom Summer
AuthorDeborah Wiles
John Henry swims better than anyone I know.
He crawls like a catfish,
blows bubbles like a swamp monster,
but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me.
He's not allowed.
Joe and John Henry are a lot alike. They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love...
Margaux with an X
AuthorRon Koertge
ISBN0763626791
"A meticulously crafted story of an unexpected friendship." — THE HORN BOOK (starred review)


An American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults

A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age

She's drop-dead gorgeous, has a razor-sharp wit, and is a charter...
Moses Goes to School
AuthorIsaac Millman
ISBN0374350698
A day at a school for the deaf is like a day at any school

Moses goes to a special school, a public school for the deaf. He and all of his classmates are deaf or hard-of-hearing, but that doesn't mean they don't have a lot to say to each other! They communicate in American Sign Language (ASL), using...
The Color of Home
AuthorMary Hoffman
ISBN0803728417
This remarkably moving picture book follows first-grader Hassan through his first few days at school. Hassan has only recently arrived in the United States after he and his family were forced to flee Somalia, and he deeply misses the colorful landscape of his former home in Africa. But with the help...
Crooked River
AuthorShelley Pearsall
ISBN0440421012
This Historical Fiction book by Shelley Pearsall was quite interesting and enjoyable to read. Rebecca Carver, a 13 year old girl lives in a one room cabin with her Pa, her sisters Laura (age 17) and Mercy (age 3), brothers Lorenzo (age 11) and Amos (age 19), and cousin George (age 21?). As you might expect,...
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