The Memory Coat
10 best books like The Memory Coat (Elvira Woodruff): A Taste of Colored Water, Extra Yarn, Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, Coolies, When Jessie Came Across the Sea, Coming on Home Soon, Coming to America: The Story of Immigration, Coat of Many Colors, The Other Side
| Author | Matt Faulkner |
| ISBN | 1416916296 |
You could blame Abbey Finch. If she hadn't come back from town with tales of a fountain bubbling with "colored" water, LuLu and Jelly would not have needed to go see for themselves. But it's not Abbey's fault. It's the early 1960s and colored water isn't the fruit-flavored Technicolor wonder that LuLu...
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 0061953385 |
Annabelle finds a magic yarn box that never runs out of yarn. She lives in a drab little town where everyone is drab looking. She makes herself a sweater and it isn’t long before she makes a sweater for everyone. She still has plenty of yarn. Word gets out and people come wanting to see these wonders, even...
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
| Author | Ken Mochizuki |
| ISBN | 1584301570 |
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?
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| Author | Deborah Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 0679874720 |
2013 marks the 20th anniversary of Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt!
As a seamstress in the Big House, Clara dreams of a reunion with her Momma, who lives on another plantation--and even of running away to freedom. Then she overhears two slaves talking about the Underground Railroad. In a flash...
Shek marvels at the new world as he and his brother, Little Wong, arrive in California. Along with hundreds of other workers, the brothers are going to build a great railroad across the West. They plan to save enough money so that their mother and little brothers can join them in America. But as days grow...
| Author | Amy Hest |
| ISBN | 0763600946 |
In an inspiring pairing, Amy Hest and P.J. Lynch create an unforgettable tribute to the immigrant experience.
Jessie lives with her grandmother in a poor village in the valleys of eastern Europe. When, to everyone's surprise, young Jessie is chosen by the village rabbi to travel to America,...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0399237488 |
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
Ada Ruth's mama must go away to Chicago to work, leaving Ada Ruth and Grandma behind. It's war time, and women are needed to fill the men's jobs. As winter sets in, Ada Ruth and her grandma keep up their daily...
Coming to America: The Story of Immigration
| Author | Betsy Maestro |
| ISBN | 0590441523 |
Coming to America: The Story of Immigration vividly illustrates the journey of immigrants to the United States, dating from the Ice Age to present day. It is ideal for multicultural integration because it features immigrants from may different countries and ethnic backgrounds.
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| Author | Dolly Parton |
| ISBN | 0064434478 |
Winter is coming to Tennessee and there's no money to buy a new coat, so a little girl's mama sews one for her out of rags. The little girl wears it to school proudly, and when the other children laugh, she gives them a quick lesson about what it means to be rich. Judith Sutton's beautiful paintings bring one...
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0399231161 |
Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together.
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