The Road to Paris
10 best books like The Road to Paris (Nikki Grimes): How to Be an Antiracist, Shouting at the Rain, The Night Diary, Best Friends, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine, If I Ran the School, A Friendship For Today, The Jigsaw Jungle, Carnival Row: Tangle in the Dark, Tight
| Author | Ibram X. Kendi |
| ISBN | 0525509283 |
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist...
Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and wishing she could have a "regular family." Delsie observes other changes in the air, too--the most painful...
| Author | Veera Hiranandani |
| ISBN | 0735228515 |
It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders.
Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't...
Sequel to Shannon Hale's award-winning graphic novel memoir, "Real Friends", this new graphic memoir picks up where "Real Friends" left off. As Shannon grows a little older, the rules of friendship always seem to be changing, leaving her guessing and trying her best to just keep up. "Best Friends"...
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
| Author | Emily Bernard |
| ISBN | 0451493028 |
An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race--in a fearless, penetrating, honest, true way--in twelve telltale, connected, deeply personal essays that explore, up-close, the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing...
| Author | Bruce Lansky |
| ISBN | 0439825954 |
Hilarious! Some of my favorite poems are in here! The only thing that would make it better would be if Shel Silverstein's poems were in here. Other than that, it's perfect. :) (In the case you haven't guessed, Shel Silverstein is my favorite poet. "If you're a bird/be an early bird,/and catch the worm for...
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
From highly acclaimed, award-winning author Patricia McKissack comes a powerful, poignant, and timely tale of segregation, family, and one surprising friendship.
The year is 1954, the place is Missouri, and twelve-year-old Rosemary Patterson is about to make history. She is one of the...
| Author | Kristin Levine |
| ISBN | 0399174524 |
A mysterious treasure hunt helps to heal a broken family in Kristin Levine's first contemporary tale.
Claudia Dalton's father has disappeared. What began as a late night at work has spiraled into a missing persons case - one that's left twelve-year-old Claudia questioning everything she's...
Carnival Row: Tangle in the Dark
Listening Length: 3 hours and 8 minutes
Tourmaline Larou lives an idyllic life of learning by day and partying by night. An aspiring poet, her future promises nothing less than brilliance.
Then, Vignette Stonemoss walks through the door, and Tourmaline’s world is upended.
As...
| Author | Torrey Maldonado |
| ISBN | 1524740551 |
Tight: Lately, Bryan's been feeling it in all kinds of ways . . .
Bryan knows what's tight for him--reading comics, drawing superheroes, and hanging out with no drama. But drama is every day where he's from, and that gets him tight, wound up.
And now Bryan's friend Mike pressures him...
