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The Underground Abductor (An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman)

10 best books like The Underground Abductor (An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman) (Nathan Hale): Guts, Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory, The Cardboard Kingdom, All's Faire in Middle School, Swing it, Sunny, Compass South, How Mirka Met a Meteorite, Around the World, Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton

Guts
AuthorRaina Telgemeier
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes...
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
AuthorPhillip Hoose
ISBN0374304688
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...
Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory
AuthorGeorge O'Connor
ISBN1596434333
There's only one thing Zeus, the king of the Gods, is afraid of. It isn't the many-headed Hydra or the towering Gigantes. It isn't his powerful, jealous brother Poseidon, the god of the seas. Monsters, gods, Titans—none of them make the mighty Zeus blink an eye.

The only thing Zeus fears is...
The Cardboard Kingdom
AuthorChad Sell
ISBN1524719374
Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters--and their own inner demons--on one last quest before school starts again.

In...
All's Faire in Middle School
AuthorVictoria Jamieson
ISBN0525429980
The author of Roller Girl is back with a graphic novel about starting middle school, surviving your embarrassing family, and the Renaissance Faire.

Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she's eager to begin her own training as...
Swing it, Sunny
AuthorJennifer L. Holm
Summer's over and it's time for Sunny Lewin to enter the strange and unfriendly hallways of . . . middle school. When her Gramps calls her from Florida to ask how she's doing, she always tells him she's fine. But the truth? Sunny is NOT having the best time.
Not only is the whole middle school thing confusing...
Compass South
AuthorHope Larson
ISBN0374300437
It’s 1860 in New York City. When 12-year-old twins Alexander and Cleopatra’s father disappears, they join the Black Hook Gang and are caught by the police pulling off a heist. They agree to reveal the identity of the gang in exchange for tickets to New Orleans. But once there, Alex is shanghaied to...
How Mirka Met a Meteorite
AuthorBarry Deutsch
ISBN1419703986

The last time I read a comic book, uh, I mean graphic novel (in sophisticated fonts) was ages ago when they were still simply called comic books. I almost forgot how enjoyable they were until this cute book. It’s a witty, charming and really funny middle school story about Mirka, an 11 year old...
Around the World
AuthorMatt Phelan
ISBN0763636193
A Scott O'Dell Award-winning graphic novelist follows three dauntless adventurers on a Jules Verne-inspired challenge: circling the world, solo!

As the nineteenth century wound down, a public inspired by the novel Around the World in Eighty Days clamored for intrepid adventure. The challenge...
Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton
AuthorMatt Phelan
Matt Phelan, graphic novelist extraordinaire, presents a rollicking tribute to vaudeville, small-town dreams, and Buster Keaton as a boy.

In the summer of 1908, in Muskegon, Michigan, a visiting troupe of vaudeville performers is about the most exciting thing since baseball. They’re...
Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller
AuthorJoseph Lambert
ISBN1423113365
«My heart is singing for joy this morning! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!»Helen Keller lost her ability to see and hear before she turned two years old.

But in her lifetime, she learned to ride horseback and dance the foxtrot....
The Boy Who Crashed to Earth
AuthorJudd Winick
Dog Man meets Big Nate in HILO-the hilarious New York Times Bestselling GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES kids love! “A Total BLAST,” says the Miami Herald!

BOOM! CLANG! CRASH! D.J. and Gina are totally ordinary kids. But Hilo isn’t! Hilo just fell out of the sky and doesn’t know where he came from,...
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