The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
10 best books like The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano (Sonia Manzano): Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, Dark Dude, Gaijin: American Prisoner of War, Son of a Gun, Shadow on the Mountain, Cuba 15, Summer of the Mariposas, The Wild Book, Crow, No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
| Author | Phillip Hoose |
| ISBN | 0374304688 |
B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It’s time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.
He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists...
He didn't say good-bye. He didn't leave a phone number. And he didn't plan on coming back - ever.
In Wisconsin, Rico could blend in. His light hair and lighter skin wouldn't make him the "dark dude" or the punching bag for the whole neighborhood. The Midwest is the land of milk and honey, but...
| Author | Matt Faulkner |
| ISBN | 1423137353 |
San Francisco, 1941: America has just declared war on Japan.
With a white mother and a Japanese father, Koji Miyamoto quickly learns that his home is no longer a welcoming one. Streetcars won't stop for Koji, and his classmates accuse him of being an enemy spy. When a letter arrives from the government...
| 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 | Margi Preus |
| ISBN | 1419704249 |
Shadow on the Mountain recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named Espen during World War II. After Nazi Germany invades and occupies Norway, Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian resistance movement. Espen gets his start by delivering illegal newspapers, then graduates...
| Author | Nancy Osa |
| ISBN | 0385732333 |
Violet Paz has just turned 15, a pivotal birthday in the eyes of her Cuban grandmother. Fifteen is the age when a girl enters womanhood, traditionally celebrating the occasion with a quinceañero. But while Violet is half Cuban, she’s also half Polish, and more importantly, she feels 100% American....
| Author | Guadalupe Garcia McCall |
| ISBN | 1600609007 |
When Odilia and her four sisters find a dead body in the swimming hole, they embark on a hero’s journey to return the dead man to his family in Mexico. But returning home to Texas turns into an odyssey that would rival Homer’s original tale.
With the supernatural aid of ghostly La Llorona via...
| Author | Margarita Engle |
| ISBN | 0547581319 |
Fefa struggles with words. She has word blindness, or dyslexia, and the doctor says she will never read or write. Every time she tries, the letters jumble and spill off the page, leaping and hopping away like bullfrogs. How will she ever understand them?But her mother has an idea. She gives Fefa a blank...
| Author | Barbara Wright |
| ISBN | 0375969284 |
The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's...
No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
| Author | Vaunda Micheaux Nelson |
| ISBN | 0761361693 |
Coretta Scott King award-winning author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson's great uncle was Lewis Micheaux, owner of the famous National Memorial African Bookstore. Located in the heart of Harlem, New York, from 1939 to 1975, Micheaux's bookstore became the epicenter of black literary life and a rallying...
| Author | Shelley Pearsall |
| ISBN | 0375836993 |
Levi Battle's been left behind all his life. His mother could sing like a bird and she flew away like one, too. His father left him with his grandmother so he could work as a traveling salesman—until Levi's grandmother left this world entirely. Now Levi's staying with his Aunt Odella while his father...
Everyone believes in something. Almost everyone.
For Sanskrit Aaron Zuckerman, it isn't easy to believe. Especially when all the people you care about leave.
His Dad left after the divorce. The love of his life left in second grade. His best friend in Jewish school found God and practically...
| 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 | Kekla Magoon |
| ISBN | 1442422300 |
What means more, shared values or shared blood? Maxie’s choice changes everything in this acclaimed companion to The Rock and the River.
Bad things happen in the heat, they say.
Maxie knows all about how fire can erupt at a moment’s notice, especially now, in the sweltering Chicago...
| Author | Carmen T. Bernier-Grand |
| ISBN | 0761453830 |
Carmen T. Bernier-Grand's inspiring free verse and David Diaz's vivid paintings capture the defining moments and emotions of Diego Rivera's tumultuous life, including his stormy relationship with artist Frida Kahlo and his passion for his art. Rivera's energy, physique, love for women, and work...
| Author | Gary D. Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0547612184 |
2013 Pura Belpre Award for Illustration
As the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a former slave, Martin de Porres was born into extreme poverty. Even so, his mother begged the church fathers to allow him into the priesthood. Instead, Martin was accepted as a servant boy. But soon, the...
| Author | Sharon G. Flake |
| ISBN | 0545057183 |
Autumn and Adonis have nothing in common and everything in common. Autumn is outgoing and has lots of friends. Adonis is shy and not so eager to connect with people. But even with their differences, the two have one thing in common--they're each dealing with a handicap. For Autumn, who has a learning disability,...
| Author | Gigi Amateau |
| ISBN | 0763647926 |
An 1800 insurrection planned by a literate slave known as "Prosser’s Gabriel" inspires a historical novel following one extraordinary man’s life.
In a time of post-Revolutionary fervor in Richmond, Virginia, an imposing twenty-four-year-old slave named Gabriel, known for his courage...
| Author | Kimberly Newton Fusco |
| ISBN | 0553494236 |
Lenore is Cornelia’s mother and Cornelia’s fix-up project. What does it matter that Cornelia won’t talk to anyone and is always stuck in the easiest English class at school, even though she’s read more books than anyone else? She feels strong in the fixing. She cooks vegetable soup so Lenore...
| Author | Jairo Buitrago |
| ISBN | 1554981786 |
Listed as one of the Best Children's Books of 2012 by Kirkus, honored with the Horn Book Fanfare, and selected for the School Library Journal's 100 Magnificent Children's Books of 2012
Jimmy lives in a small town by the sea where there is just one tiny gym. The owner of the gym suggests...
| Author | Betsy Franco |
| ISBN | 0763610356 |
Teenage girls tell their own stories—in compelling poetry and prose paired with 42 striking black-and-white photographs.
The voices in this collection have so much to question, so much to grieve. They have so much to celebrate, so much to rage against. They’re ready to speak up and begin...
Tito Puente, Mambo King/Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo: Bilingual Spanish-English
| Author | Monica Brown |
| ISBN | 0061227838 |
Reflection on ONE: Text to text, text to self, text to world connection with the book
This onomatopaeia in this book reminds me of Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles-Think of That by Leo Dillon. Instead of making noise with percussion like Tito Puente, Bojangles makes similar sounds with his feet.
Write...
Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices
| Author | Lisa Charleyboy |
| ISBN | 1554516870 |
A powerful and visually stunning anthology from some of the most groundbreaking Native artists working in North America today. Truly universal in its themes, Dreaming In Indian will shatter commonly held stereotypes and challenge readers to rethink their own place in the world. Divided into four...
