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10 best books like Uncle Jed's Barbershop (Margaree King Mitchell): White Water, Knots on a Counting Rope, Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back, Goin' Someplace Special, Ron's Big Mission, The Patchwork Quilt, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, The Bicycle Man, Richard Wright and the Library Card, The Bat Boy & His Violin

White Water
AuthorMichael S. Bandy
ISBN0763636789
For a young boy growing up in the segregated south, a town drinking fountain becomes the source of an epiphany.

It's a scorching hot day, and going into town with Grandma is one of Michael's favorite things. When the bus pulls up, they climb in and pay their fare, get out, walk to the back door, and...
Knots on a Counting Rope
AuthorBill Martin Jr.
ISBN0805054790
This is a difficult book to review because on the one hand it is a moving and poetic account of a little boy's (formally named "By-Strength-of-Blue Horses") eagerly asking and prompting his grandfather to tell the story of the boy's own life, a story that, when it is completed, is marked by a knot on a counting...
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back
AuthorJoseph Bruchac
ISBN0698115848
"Unusual and intelligent...An exemplary introduction to Native American culture with its emphasis on the importance of nature." — Publishers Weekly

In Native American legend, the thirteen scales on Old Turtle's back hold the key to the thirteen cycles of the moon and the changing...
Goin' Someplace Special
AuthorPatricia C. McKissack
ISBN0689818858
'Tricia Ann is going to her favorite place in the world today. It's the first time she's been allowed to go there all by herself. In a lovely dress that looks like spring, she leaves the house. Her grandmother cautions her to "hold yo' head up and act like you b'long to somebody."



But holding...
Ron's Big Mission
AuthorRose Blue
ISBN0525478493
Nine-year-old Ron loves going to the Lake City Public Library to look through all the books on airplanes and flight. Today, Ron is ready to take out books by "himself." But in the segregated world of South Carolina in the 1950s, Ron's obtaining his own library card is not just a small rite of passage - it...
The Patchwork Quilt
AuthorValerie Flournoy
ISBN0803700970
I imagine Valerie Flournoy must have/had a unique bond with an elderly person in her lifetime because she writes this story so well it seems like it is from the heart. I wouldn't be surprised if it were true. The Patchwork Quilt is a beautiful story about the bonds between generations and the memories that...
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
AuthorDeborah Hopkinson
ISBN0679874720
2013 marks the 20th anniversary of Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt!

As a seamstress in the Big House, Clara dreams of a reunion with her Momma, who lives on another plantation--and even of running away to freedom. Then she overhears two slaves talking about the Underground Railroad. In a flash...
The Bicycle Man
AuthorAllen Say
ISBN0395506522
This is the third Allen Say book I've read this year, and being the huge Japanophile that I am, it's safe to say that I am officially a fan. I found this book today misshelved in the Education and Reference book section of a dusty old charity shop.

Set on a mountainside village near Yokohama not long...
Richard Wright and the Library Card
AuthorWilliam Miller
ISBN1880000881
As a young black man in the segregated South of the 1920s, Wright was hungry to explore new worlds through books, but was forbidden from borrowing them from the library. This touching account tells of his love of reading, and how his unwavering perseverance, along with the help of a co-worker, came together...
The Bat Boy & His Violin
AuthorGavin Curtis
ISBN0689841159
Reginald loves to create beautiful music on his violin. But Papa, manager of the Dukes, the worst team in the Negro National League, needs a bat boy, not a "fiddler," and traveling with the Dukes doesn't leave Reginald much time for practicing.

Soon the Dukes' dugout is filled with Beethoven,...
Be Good to Eddie Lee
AuthorVirginia Fleming
ISBN0399219935
Be Good to Eddie Lee is a book about a girl named Christy and a boy in her neighborhood named Eddie Lee. Eddie Lee is a child with down syndrome, who is not always well liked by Christy and her friend. One day Christy decides to go down to the river with her friend, and Eddie Lee tags along much to her disappointment....
The Long Way to a New Land
AuthorJoan Sandin
ISBN0064441008
Summary/Annotation: This is a book about a boy named Carl Erik and his family who lived in Sweden. The setting is in 1868. Times aren't so great because in the summer they lack rain and in the winter they lack food. They are facing horrible times without food and money. They receive a letter from their uncle...
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
ISBN0803728603
When four courageous black teens sat down at a lunch counter in the segregated South of 1960, the reverberations were felt both far beyond and close to home. This insightful story offers a child's-eye view of this seminal event in the American Civil Rights Movement. Connie is used to the signs and customs...
black is brown is tan
AuthorArnold Adoff
ISBN0064432696
Brown-skinned momma, the color of chocolate milk and coffee pumpkin pie, whose face gets ginger red when she puffs and yells the children into bed. White-skinned daddy, not white like milk or snow, lighter than brown, With pinks and tiny tans, whose face gets tomato red when he puffs and yells their children...
A Day's Work
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0395845181
Oh dear. So this book arrived by mistake from Amazon. I forget what I had ordered instead. Definitely not this. But Eve Bunting is amazing so I kept it. It's a complicated, kind of sad story told very simply. And it makes me think about all the heavy lifting we have our children do when they read. I look at high...
The Tortilla Factory
AuthorGary Paulsen
ISBN0152016988
In clear and eloquent language, Gary Paulsen pays tribute to a cycle of life--from seed to plant to tortilla. Workers till the black soil, operate the clanking machinery of the factory, and drive the trucks that deliver the tortillas back into the hands that will plant the yellow seeds. With Ruth Wright...
A Sweet Smell of Roses
AuthorAngela Johnson
ISBN0689832524
There's a sweet, sweet smell in the air as two young girls sneak out of their house, down the street, and across town to where men and women are gathered, ready to march for freedom and justice.
Inspired by the countless young people who took a stand against the forces of injustice, two Coretta Scott...
Ruby Bridges Goes To School: My True Story
AuthorRuby Bridges
ISBN0545108551
In 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked through an angry crowd and into a school where she changed history. This is the true story of an extraordinary little girl who helped shape our country when she became the first African-American to attend an all-white school in New Orleans. With simple text...
My Rows and Piles of Coins
AuthorTololwa M. Mollel
ISBN0395751861
"I emptied my secret money box, arranged the coins in piles and the piles in rows . . ." The market is full of wonderful things, but Saruni is saving his precious coins for a red and blue bicycle. How happy he will be when he can help his mother carry heavy loads to market on his very own bicycle--and how disappointed...
Freedom Summer
AuthorDeborah Wiles
John Henry swims better than anyone I know.
He crawls like a catfish,
blows bubbles like a swamp monster,
but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me.
He's not allowed.
Joe and John Henry are a lot alike. They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love...
Fred Stays With Me!
AuthorNancy Coffelt
ISBN0316882690
Told from the point of view of a young child whose parents are divorced, Fred Stays with Me! follows a girl and her dog, Fred, from one parent's house to the other's, giving her a sense of continuity and stability. With a simple text and childlike language, the story expresses and addresses a child's concerns,...
26 Letters and 99 Cents
AuthorTana Hoban
This is a very simple book. The first half of the book counts to 99, it shows the number with the appropriate coin(s) next to it. Then you flip the book and the other half goes through the alphabet. This time with each letter there is some sort of object that represents the letter. The pictures, letters, and...
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