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Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear

10 best books like Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear (Lensey Namioka): The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Seesaw Girl, Morning Girl, Baseball in April and Other Stories, Sophie Simon Solves Them All, The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean, Sable, Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It, Where I Live

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0689828896
Henrietta is no Turkey. When Arthur Bobowicz is sent out to bring home the family's Thanksgiving turkey, he returns instead with Henrietta -- a 266-pound chicken with a mind of her own. Thus begins the hilarious chain of events that has kept readers in stitches since Henrietta first pecked her way onto...
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
AuthorBette Bao Lord
ISBN0064401758
Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams. Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn...
Seesaw Girl
AuthorLinda Sue Park
ISBN0440416728
Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in 17th-century Korea, 12-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world.

Jade Blossom can never go beyond her family's inner court. All girls from good Korean families must learn to sew, do laundry,...
Morning Girl
AuthorMichael Dorris
Set in an island in the Bahamas on the eve of Christopher Columbus's fateful landing in 1492, this story following the daily lives of two siblings, Morning Girl and Star Boy, providing a window into Taino culture.

This story is very gentle, and the writing is simple yet powerful. Told in alternating...
Baseball in April and Other Stories
AuthorGary Soto
ISBN0152025677
The Mexican American author Gary Soto draws on his own experience of growing up in California’s Central Valley in this finely crafted collection of eleven short stories that reveal big themes in the small events of daily life. Crooked teeth, ponytailed girls, embarrassing grandfathers, imposter...
Sophie Simon Solves Them All
AuthorLisa Graff
ISBN0374371253
For a third-grader, Sophie Simon is one smart cookie. She enjoys teaching herself advanced calculus and has performed successful heart surgery on an earthworm. She's also very clever when it comes to dealing with her clueless parents. But Sophie is no genius when it comes to calculating the high value...
The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
When Harriet Bean's father mentions that he has five sisters—whom Harriet has never met—she is immediately intrigued. Harriet is determined to uncover the whereabouts of her five lost aunts, but with nothing more than an unfinished family portrait and a few outdated clues, will she be able to...
Sable
AuthorKaren Hesse
ISBN0805057722
“Sable” is the story of a girl and a dog. I like stories that involve animals and this is no exception.

The story takes place somewhere in the country. It is at Tate’s (the main character) home (possibly a ranch or a farm) (Tate is the main character in the story) where a scrawny dog appears....
Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It
AuthorSundee T. Frazier
ISBN0385734395
Ten-year-old Tae Kwon Do blue belt and budding rock hound Brendan Buckley keeps a "Confidential" notebook for his top-secret scientific discoveries. And he's found something totally top secret. The grandpa he's never met, who his mom refuses to talk about or see, is an expert mineral collector and...
Where I Live
AuthorEileen Spinelli
ISBN0803731221
Diana loves where she lives. She loves the astronomy charts on her walls and the fact that she can wave to her best friend, Rose, from her very own window. And best of all, a wren has recently made its home right by her front door! When her family is forced to move, Diana wonders if she'll ever find that same...
Martin's Mice
AuthorDick King-Smith
In one of his more thoughtful novels, Dick King-Smith looks at the fine line between friendship and possessiveness...and how we react to learning uncomfortable truths about ourselves. Cats are found on almost any farm, but not cats like Martin. Unlike his brother Robin and sister Lark, Martin hates...
Jim Ugly
AuthorSid Fleischman
A one-man dogPart wolf and fiercely independent, Jim Ugly is a dog who answers to only one person. Unfortunately, that man -- Sam Bannock -- has disappeared. Rumor has it that Sam is dead, but to his son, Jake, something about that doesn't sound quite right. So Jake and Jim Ugly embark on a wild journey into...
Beat the Turtle Drum
AuthorConstance C. Greene
ISBN0140368507
Beautiful story. But quite upsetting.

Realistic YA Fiction.

Also a movie.

The plot concerns a family, with two sisters, Cate and Joss. They are more then sisters but also best friends.

One day, Joss, the younger sister is killed in a tragic accident., shattering...
The Star Fisher
AuthorLaurence Yep
ISBN0688093655
"This poignant, gently humorous novel is about prejudice and acceptance....15-year-old Joan Lee is a child of two worlds. As a Chinese American, she has never felt her separateness more than now, in 1927, in this new place in West Virginia. Only Miss Lucy, their landlord and neighbor, seems welcoming....There's...
The No. 1 Car Spotter
AuthorAtinuke
ISBN1610670515
When I discovered the amazing, remarkable, one-of-a-kind, never before seen Anna Hibiscus books by Atinuke last year I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. It just didn't seem possible. A contemporary early chapter book set on the continent of Africa? To understand how rare this was visit your local...
The Memory Coat
AuthorElvira Woodruff
ISBN0590677179
In the story The Memory Coat by Elvira Woodruff,Elvia uses a different technique to express how Rachel acts like a sister to Grisha. When everyone wanted Grisha to get a new coat so, they had a better chance to enter America. Rachel sticks up for him. Rachel explains to the family why the coat was important...
The Gold Cadillac
AuthorMildred D. Taylor
ISBN0140389636
Lois and Wilma are proud of their father's brand-new gold Cadillac, and excited that the family will be driving it all the way from Ohio to Mississippi. But as they travel deeper into the rural South, there are no admiring glances for the shiny new car; only suspicion and anger for the black man behind the...
The Eyes of the Amaryllis
AuthorNatalie Babbitt
ISBN0374422389
When the brig Amaryllis was swallowed in a hurricane, the captain and all the crew were swallowed, too. For thirty years the captain's widow, Geneva Reade, has waited, certain that her husband will send her a message from the bottom of the sea. But someone else is waiting, too, and watching her, a man called...
Earthquake Terror
AuthorPeg Kehret
ISBN0140383433
When Jonathan and his family go camping on Magpie Island, they look forward to a fun, relaxing weekend. But their fun quickly vanishes when Jonathan, his sister, Abby, and their dog, Moose, find themselves in the middle of a natural disaster. A devastating earthquake has hit, destroying their camper,...
I and You and Don't Forget Who
AuthorBrian P. Cleary
ISBN1575055961
Text: 5 stars
Illustrations: 3 stars

Part of the Words Are CATegorical series. Useful children's nonfiction picture book about pronouns. Discusses the functions of pronouns and provides solid explanations of the various types of pronouns, with examples. Covers personal pronouns,...
The Year of the Panda
AuthorMiriam Schlein
ISBN0064403661
Daxiong mao is rare and mysterious, like a god, living in the midst of the mountains.

Strange things are happening on Lu Yi's farm. First, some men from the Chinese government ask Lu Yi's father to sell the property that has belonged to the family for generations. Then a giant panda appears in...
Under the Same Sky
AuthorCynthia C. DeFelice
ISBN0374480656
A teenager discovers racism and romance on his father's farm

For his fourteenth birthday, Joe Pedersen wants a motorbike that costs nearly a thousand dollars. But his mom says the usual birthday gift is fifty dollars, and his dad wants Joe to earn the rest of the money himself and "find out what...
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