With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954

10 best books like With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954 (Andrea Davis Pinkney): Other Words for Home, The Unteachables, Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136, A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859, Resistance, The Collector, Sweeping Up the Heart, Sunny Rolls the Dice, A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620, Wildfire

Other Words for Home

Author

Jasmine Warga

I am learning how to be
sad
and happy
at the same time.

Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati...

The Unteachables

Author	Gordon Korman
ISBN	0062563912

What happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher?

The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger management issues; Parker, who can’t read; Kiana, who doesn’t even belong in the class—or...

Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136

Author	Kristiana Gregory
ISBN	0439164842

Author of the best-selling Royal Diaries title, CLEOPATRA VII, Kristiana Gregory now takes readers to twelfth-century France and introduces Eleanor of Aquitaine, who becomes queen at age 15.

Fourteen-year-old Eleanor of Aquitaine lives in a castle in Poitier, France, with her father...

A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859

Author	Patricia C. McKissack
ISBN	0590259881

Day or two later
Freedom is one of the first words I teached myself to write. Down in the Quarters people pray for freedom - they sing 'bout freedom, but to keep Mas' Henley from knowin' their true feelings, they call freedom "heaven." Everybody's mind is on freedom.
But it is a word that aine never...

Resistance

Author

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in danger of being killed or sent to the camps. After her little sister is taken away, her younger brother disappears, and her parents all but give up hope, Chaya is determined to make a difference. Using forged...

The Collector

Author	K.R. Alexander
ISBN	1338212249

Josie always liked visiting her grandmother in the countryside. But when her mother loses her job in the city and they're forced to relocate along with Josie's sister, Annie, she realizes she doesn't like the country that much. Especially because Grandma Jeannie has some strange rules: Don't bring...

Sweeping Up the Heart

Author	Kevin Henkes
ISBN	0062852574

A novel about loss, loneliness, and friendship that tells the story of the spring break that changes seventh-grader Amelia Albright's life forever.

Amelia Albright dreams about going to Florida for spring break like everyone else in her class, but her father--a cranky and stubborn English...

Sunny Rolls the Dice

Author	Jennifer L. Holm
ISBN	1338233157

Too cool for school . . . or the least groovy girl in the grade?

Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't...

A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620

Author

Kathryn Lasky

Journey to the New World (Mayflower) / 0-590-50214-X

Like so many of the Dear America series, this book has wonderful history; the journey across the sea is so real, you can almost feel the narrator's sea sickness. The arrival in the New World is presented realistically: full of hope, joy, and...

Wildfire

Author

Rodman Philbrick

Newbery Honor author Rodman Philbrick sends readers straight into the nightmare of a raging wildfire as 12-year-old Sam is trapped by explosive flames and deadly smoke that threaten to take his life. Can he survive?
Flames race toward Sam Castine's summer camp as evacuation buses are loading,...