The Story of Seeds: From Mendel's Garden to Your Plate, and How There's More of Less to Eat Around the World
10 best books like The Story of Seeds: From Mendel's Garden to Your Plate, and How There's More of Less to Eat Around the World (Nancy Castaldo): Anger Is a Gift, Patron Saints of Nothing, Thousand Cranes, Maybe He Just Likes You, Beverly, Right Here, The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza, Milkweed, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, The Shape of Ideas: An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity, The Ghosts Who Travel with Me: A Literary Pilgrimage Through Brautigan's America
Author | Mark Oshiro |
ISBN | 1250167027 |
Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks.
Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates...
A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.
Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall....
Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
ISBN | 0679762655 |
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Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.
While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of...
Barbara Dee explores the subject of #MeToo for the middle grade audience in this heart-wrenching—and ultimately uplifting—novel about experiencing harassment and unwanted attention from classmates.
For seventh grader Mila, it starts with an unwanted hug on the school blacktop.
The...
Author | Kate DiCamillo |
ISBN | 0763694649 |
Revisiting once again the world of Raymie Nightingale, two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo turns her focus to the tough-talking, inescapably tenderhearted Beverly.
Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still.
This was what Beverly wanted — what she always wanted....
The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
Author | Shaun David Hutchinson |
ISBN | 1481498541 |
Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product of a virgin birth.
This can be scientifically explained (it’s called parthenogenesis), but what can’t be explained is how Elena is able to heal Freddie, the girl she’s had a crush on for years, from a gunshot wound in a Starbucks parking...
Author | Jerry Spinelli |
ISBN | 0440420059 |
He’s a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham.
He’s a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He’s a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He’s a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He’s a boy who wants to be a Nazi some...
Author | Don Brown |
ISBN | 1328810151 |
In the tradition of Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust Bowl and Sibert Honor winning Drowned City, The Unwanted is an important, timely, and eye-opening exploration of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the harsh realities...
The Shape of Ideas: An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity
Author | Grant Snider |
ISBN | 1419723170 |
What does an idea look like? And where do they come from? Grant Snider’s illustrations will motivate you to explore these questions, inspire you to come up with your own answers and, like all Gordian knots, prompt even more questions. Whether you are a professional artist or designer, a student pursuing...
The Ghosts Who Travel with Me: A Literary Pilgrimage Through Brautigan's America
Author | Allison Green |
ISBN | 1932010777 |
Curious about her enduring love for Richard Brautigan’s work, Allison Green embarks on a roadtrip tracing the route of his most famous work, Trout Fishing in America. As she travels, she examines the way we relate to the things that influence us—the ancestors who created us, the past that shaped...
C'est la Vie!: The Wonderful World of Jean-Jacques Sempé
Author | Jean-Jacques Sempé |
ISBN | 0714865974 |
À 17 ans, Sempé roule à bicyclette pour un courtier en vins. En 1960, il démarre avec Goscinny l'aventure du petit Nicolas, dressant une inoubliable galerie de portraits d' "affreux jojos qui tapissent depuis notre imaginaire" (dixit Goscinny). Son humour fin, subtil et allusif allié à un formidable...
The Healing Magic of Forest Bathing: Finding Calm, Creativity, and Connection in the Natural World
Author | Julia Plevin |
ISBN | 0399582118 |
An engaging guide to the art of forest bathing, inspired by the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, for anyone who wants to explore the transformative power of nature in promoting health and happiness.
Forest bathing is the art of spending intentional time in nature and is practiced throughout...
Author | Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet |
A middle grade novel in verse about Moishe Moskowitz's Holocaust survival story.
Moishe was thirteen when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and he was sent to Auschwitz. His home was ravaged, his family torn apart by illness and abduction. Years of brutality drew on as Moishe moved from one labor...
Author | Clive Cussler |
ISBN | 0525539611 |
Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo return for a new adventure as they hunt for ancient treasure–that may or may not be cursed–in this thrilling addition to Clive Cussler’s bestselling series.
In 533 A.D., the last King of the Vandals still rules in Northern...
Author | Mitali Perkins |
ISBN | 0374304920 |
Junior Library Guild Selection
School Library Journal Best YA Book of 2019
Nominated for the American Library Association's Best Fiction for Young Adults list
Nominated for the Amelia Bloomer List
Barnes and Noble Most Anticipated YA
Katina King is the reigning teen jujitsu...
Author | Kathi Appelt |
ISBN | 1442421096 |
An ocelot. A slave. An angel thief.
Multiple perspectives spanning across time are united through themes of freedom, hope, and faith.
Sixteen-year-old Cade Curtis is an angel thief. After his mother’s family rejected him for being born out of wedlock, he and his dad moved to the...
Author | Natasha Friend |
ISBN | 0374305668 |
Quinn is a teen who loves her family, skateboarding, basketball, and her friends, but after she's diagnosed with a condition called alopecia which causes her to lose all of her hair, her friends abandon her. Nick was once a star football player, but because of a freak accident — caused by his brother...
Author | Guadalupe Garcia McCall |
During the Great Depression, times were bleak for most people, but especially for Mexican-Americans living near the border, as they were often used a scapegoat. More than 1 million Mexican-Americans, including 600,000 citizens were "repatriated" to Mexico, Author McCall tells the story of fifteen...