Women's Indian Captivity Narratives

7 best books like Women's Indian Captivity Narratives (Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola): Go Away, Big Green Monster!, When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons, Cinnamon, The Name Jar, Smoke in the Sun, The Man Who Loved Libraries: The Story of Andrew Carnegie, Karl, Get Out of the Garden!: Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything

Go Away, Big Green Monster!

Author	Ed Emberley
ISBN	0316236535

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This classic interactive book that has been helping children chase away nighttime fears for 25 years is perfect for Halloween--and all-year round!
Caldecott Award-winner Ed Emberley has created an ingenious way for children to overcome bedtime frights. As...

When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons

Author	Julie Fogliano
ISBN	1596438525

december 29

and i woke to a morning
that was quiet and white
the first snow
(just like magic) came on tip toes
overnight

Flowers blooming in sheets of snow make way for happy frogs dancing in the rain. Summer swims move over for autumn sweaters until the snow comes back...

Cinnamon

Author

Neil Gaiman

Cinnamon was a princess, a long time ago, in a small hot country, where everything was very old. Cinnamon did not talk. Mango trees, a parrot, and a beautiful room in the palace do nothing to help the teachers who try to make her to speak. Can a man-eating tiger do so, and exactly who will end up in the belly...

The Name Jar

Author	Yangsook Choi
ISBN	0440417996

The new kid in school needs a new name! Or does she?

Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what about when nobody can pronounce your name? Having just moved from Korea, Unhei is anxious that American kids will like her. So instead of introducing herself on the first day of school, she tells...

Smoke in the Sun

Author

Renée Ahdieh

For weeks, seventeen-year-old Mariko pretended to be a boy to infiltrate the notorious Black Clan and bring her would-be murderer to justice. She didn't expect to find a place for herself among the group of fighters—a life of usefulness—and she certainly didn't expect to fall in love. Now she heads...

The Man Who Loved Libraries: The Story of Andrew Carnegie

Author	Andrew Larsen
ISBN	1771472677

When he was a child in the 1840s, Andrew Carnegie and his family immigrated to America in search of a new beginning. His working-class Scottish family arrived at the height of the Industrial Revolution. Carnegie worked hard, in factories and telegraphy. He invested in railroads, eventually becoming...

Karl, Get Out of the Garden!: Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything

Author	Anita Sanchez
ISBN	1580896065

Do you know what a Solanum caule inermi herbaceo, foliis pinnatis incises, racemis simplicibus is?*

Carolus (Karl) Linnaeus started off as a curious child who loved exploring the garden. Despite his intelligence--and his mother's scoldings--he was a poor student, preferring to be outdoors...