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10 best books like When Jessie Came Across the Sea (Amy Hest): Come On, Rain!, The Lion and the Mouse, The Gardener, All the Places to Love, Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Pink and Say, The Curious Garden, Thunder Cake

Come On, Rain!
AuthorKaren Hesse
ISBN0590331256
I love the colors of this book. It’s about a time that I really don’t like; those hot muggy days you can hardly breath and people are praying for rain to keep things from dying. I can’t stand that time. It makes me want to live in Scotland.

A Mama is taking care of her wilting plants and a girl...
The Lion and the Mouse
AuthorJerry Pinkney
ISBN0316013560
In award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of kindness is ever wasted. After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from a poacher's...
The Gardener
AuthorSarah Stewart
ISBN0374325170
By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library

Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing...
All the Places to Love
AuthorPatricia MacLachlan
ISBN0060210982
A picture book celebration of love by the Newbery Medal–winning author, Patricia MacLachlan, with luminous paintings by Mike Wimmer.

Within the sanctuary of a loving family, baby Eli is born and, as he grows, learns to cherish the people and places around him, eventually passing on what...
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
AuthorEllen 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...
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
ISBN0786851759
This is a powerful story about Harriet and slavery. It does a good job talking about slavery and how bad it was without being too much for kids. Harriet made 19 trips into the South and freed around 300 people. That is pretty incredible. She was in constant conversation with God. She was the most successful...
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
AuthorBrian Floca
Simply told, grandly shown, here is the flight of Apollo 11. Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts, clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats. Here are their great machines in all their detail and monumentality, the...
Pink and Say
AuthorPatricia Polacco
ISBN0399226710
3.5 stars. Such a sad story. As you might expect from a Patricia Polacco book, this is uplifting and gives you hope in human nature and it is heartbreakingly sad and makes you despair too.

The American Civil war is something I know very little about, this gives you a taste of what it was like for young...
The Curious Garden
AuthorPeter Brown
ISBN0316015474
One boy's quest for a greener world... one garden at a time.

While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world.

This...
Thunder Cake
AuthorPatricia Polacco
ISBN0698115813
A loud clap of thunder booms, and rattles the windows of Grandma's old farmhouse. "This is Thunder Cake baking weather," calls Grandma, as she and her granddaughter hurry to gather the ingredients around the farm. A real Thunder Cake must reach the oven before the storm arrives. But the list of ingredients...
Tomás and the Library Lady
AuthorPat Mora
ISBN0613283627
A young Texan finds refuge in his new Iowa town's library, where the librarian offers him cool comfort from hot summer days and whirlwind adventures through reading. Colon's beautiful scratchboard illustrations, in his textured, glowingly colored, rhythmic style, capture the warmth and the dreams...
Rose Blanche
AuthorRoberto Innocenti
ISBN1568461895
This is a horror story. Highly disturbing. Who the heck is this aimed at?!

It’s about the horrors of war/the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a young (non-Jewish) German girl who doesn’t fully understand the situation of the war going on. She does see some suffering though and tries...
Ox-Cart Man
AuthorDonald Hall
ISBN0140504419
Winner of the Caldecott Medal

Thus begins a lyrical journey through the days and weeks, the months, and the changing seasons in the life of one New Englander and his family. The oxcart man packs his goods - the wool from his sheep, the shawl his wife made, the mittens his daughter knitted, and the...
The Matchbox Diary
AuthorPaul Fleischman
ISBN0763646016
Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman and Bagram Ibatoulline tell a breathtaking immigration tale with appeal across generations.

"Pick whatever you like most. Then I’ll tell you its story."
When a little girl visits her great-grandfather at his curio-filled home, she chooses an unusual...
Hello Lighthouse
AuthorSophie Blackall
ISBN0316362387
On the highest rock of a tiny island
at the edge of the world stands a lighthouse.
It is built to last forever. Sending its light out to sea.
The fog rolls in, and the fog rolls out.
The waves rise and crash. The wind blows and blows...
This beautiful picture book caught my eye on the Goodreads...
The Rough Patch
AuthorBrian Lies
ISBN0062671278
Evan and his dog do everything together, from eating ice cream to caring for their award-winning garden, which grows big and beautiful. One day the unthinkable happens: Evan’s dog dies. Heartbroken, Evan destroys the garden and everything in it. The ground becomes overgrown with prickles and thorns,...
Johnny Appleseed
AuthorReeve Lindbergh
ISBN0316526347
Johnny Appleseed was a real person while his life has become legend. He was a bit like St Francis - he was very kind to animals. He was also on friendly terms with the Indians. The one thing we know he did barefoot or not in the snow was plant apple trees. This is a nice poem about his legend. The paintings are...
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...
Boxes for Katje
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN0374309221
Simple seeds of friendship grow into something extraordinary

After World War II there is little left in Katje's town of Olst in Holland. Her family, like most Dutch families, must patch their old worn clothing and go without everyday things like soap and milk. Then one spring morning when the...
The Butterfly
AuthorPatricia Polacco
ISBN0399231706
Since the Tall Boots--the Nazis--have marched into Monique's small French village, terrorizing it, nothing surprises her. Until the night Monique encounters "the little ghost" sitting at the end of her bed. When she turns out to be--not a ghost at all--but a young girl named Sevrine, who has been hiding...
More Than Anything Else
AuthorMarie Bradby
ISBN0531094642
Simply put a beautiful story on reading with beautiful imagery. However, “More Than Anything Else” was more than that. It had a likable character named Booker to follow throughout the story. It compared grasping or “holding” on to something, a frog, with grasping knowledge or learning to...
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...
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...
Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!
AuthorMarilyn Burns
ISBN0590944592
Spaghetti and Meatballs for All is written in a landscape style illustrations that are full-bleed and also bordered. The text is incorporated into the images. I feel children will enjoy the learning aspect of the story because it uses fun concepts and you don't think of it as "doing math". There are multiple...
Coming on Home Soon
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0399237488
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

Ada Ruth's mama must go away to Chicago to work, leaving Ada Ruth and Grandma behind. It's war time, and women are needed to fill the men's jobs. As winter sets in, Ada Ruth and her grandma keep up their daily...
The Journey
AuthorFrancesca Sanna
ISBN1909263990
With haunting echoes of the current refugee crisis this beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war. This book will stay with you long after the last page is turned.

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The Other Side
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0399231161
Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together.

With the addition of a brand-new author's...
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