Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion

10 best books like Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Loree Griffin Burns): Blueberries for Sal, The Undefeated, I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Flotsam, Horton Hatches the Egg, Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, Let the Children March, Cry, Heart, But Never Break, A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Blueberries for Sal

Author	Robert McCloskey
ISBN	0670175919

Caldecott Honor Book

What happens when Sal and her mother meet a mother bear and her cub? A beloved classic is born!

Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk! Sal and her mother a picking blueberries to can for the winter. But when Sal wanders to the other side of Blueberry Hill, she discovers a mama...

The Undefeated

Author	Kwame Alexander
ISBN	1328780961

The Newbery Award-winning author of THE CROSSOVER pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree.
Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma...

I'm Not Dying with You Tonight

Author	Kimberly Jones
ISBN	1492678899

Lena and Campbell aren't friends.

Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan. She knows she's going to make it big. Campbell, on the other hand, is just trying to keep her head down and get through the year at her new school.

When both girls attend the Friday-night football...

Sam and Dave Dig a Hole

Author	Mac Barnett
ISBN	0763662291

With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor.

Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing....

Flotsam

Author	David Wiesner
ISBN	0618194576

A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-encrusted...

Horton Hatches the Egg

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0007175191

Everyone laughs when Horton the Elephant offers to sit on Mayzie bird's egg while she goes on holiday. Horton's kindness and faithfulness are sorely tested when he, and the egg, are kidnapped and sold to a circus - but his reward for being faithful is more wonderful than he could ever have dreamed!

With...

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

Author

Ellen Levine

A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.

Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream...

Let the Children March

Author	Monica Clark-Robinson
ISBN	0544704525

I couldn't play on the same playground as the white kids. 
I couldn't go to their schools.  
I couldn't drink from their water fountains.  
There were so many things I couldn't do. 

In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to...

Cry, Heart, But Never Break

Author	Glenn Ringtved
ISBN	1592701876

Even to the most-learned men and women, few things are as scary, swamping and tearing as death. Like an end, that ultimate exit, beyond which everything becomes void and nothing remains to return, it hovers over us like a spying cloud, always waiting for that one chance to seize our life and make it its...

A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Author	Philip C. Stead
ISBN	1596434023

Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl.

But one day—"Ah-choo!"—he woke up with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected...

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

Author	Lindsay Mattick
ISBN	0316324906

Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. In 1914, during World War I, Captain Harry Colebourn, a Canadian veterinarian on his way to serve with cavalry units in Europe, rescued a bear cub in White River, Ontario. He named the bear Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg,...

I See a Cat

Author	Paul Meisel
ISBN	0823436802

A dog barks at everything he loves--a cat, a squirrel, and his favorite boy! This Level A book is perfect for new readers.


I see a cat. I see a bird. I see a fly.

Easy-to-read text and fun pictures follow a dog through his happy day. Sitting inside his house, the dog watches other animals...

Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability

Author	Shane Burcaw
ISBN	1626727716

Shane Burcaw was born with a rare disease called spinal muscular atrophy, which hinders his muscles' growth. As a result, his body hasn't grown bigger and stronger as he's gotten older--it's gotten smaller and weaker instead. This hasn't stopped him from doing the things he enjoys (like eating pizza...