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This Is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration
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Include books by the same authorGrandpa Green
Lane Smith · 32 pages
He was a boy on a farm and a kid with chickenpox. He was a soldier and a husband and a gardener, and most of all, an artist. Follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson through a garden where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten. In his most enigmatic and beautiful work to date, noted picture book creator Lane Smith explores aging, m
The Keeping Quilt
Patricia Polacco · 48 pages
A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith.
Love You Forever
Robert Munsch · 32 pages
The story details the cycle of life by chronicling the experiences of a young son and his mother throughout the course of the boy's life, and describing the exasperating behaviour exhibited by him throughout his youth. In spite of her occasional aggravation caused by her son's behaviour, the mother nonetheless visits his bedroom nightly to cradle him in her arms, and sing a brief lullaby promising
Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs
Tomie dePaola · 32 pages
An autobiographical picture book that gently introduces young readers to the concept of grief. Tommy, a young child who regularly visits his grandmother and great-grandmother one day finds that his great-grandmother is no longer there. He must then learn to say good-bye.
The Relatives Came
Cynthia Rylant · 32 pages
The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.
Song and Dance Man
Karen Ackerman · 30 pages
Summary, Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer.
All the Places to Love
Patricia MacLachlan
A young boy describes the favorite places that he shares with his family on his grandparents' farm and in the nearby countryside.
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading rainbow book)
Cynthia Rylant, Diane Goode · 32 pages
The Great Migration: Journey to the North
Eloise Greenfield
Describes the period of the 20th century when many African Americans left the South to make better lives for themselves in the northern states.
Grandfather's Journey
Allen Say · 32 pages
A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.
Ox-Cart Man
Donald Hall · 40 pages
Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 553 pages
Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to California to look for work. When they arrive they find hundreds of others like them being f
All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown
Sydney Taylor · 187 pages
The further adventures of five sisters and their brother growing up on New York's East Side in the early twentieth century.
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Ayana Mathis · 279 pages
A novel about a mother's courage, sacrifice and love, set against the volatile history of twentieth century America. When Hattie clambered from a train, her skirt still hemmed with Georgia mud and the dream of Philadelphia sitting round as a marble in her mouth, she couldn't guess that two years later, aged sixteen, she'd be fighting to keep her baby twins alive. Saddled with a husband who will br
The Hello, Goodbye Window
Norton Juster · 32 pages
Looking through the kitchen window, a little girl and her doting grandparents watch stars, play games, and, most importantly, say hello and goodbye.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick · 534 pages
ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and the owner of a small toy booth in the train station, Hugo’s undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak · 42 pages
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Crockett Johnson · 61 pages
"Harold loves animals so much that he decides to find out what it's like to be one. Join Harold and an elephant, a camel, a herd of cheetahs, and a slippery bunch of penguins on this wildlife adventure in his imagination."--P. [4] cover.
Dance at Grandpa's
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 40 pages
Summary, A young pioneer girl and her family attend a wintertime party at her grandparents' house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin Jr. · 32 pages
Children see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and a teacher looking at them. Includes note to parents and teachers, and related activities.
Rosie Revere, Engineer
Andrea Beaty · 32 pages
Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she's a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her great-great-aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal--to fly--Rosie sets to work building a contraption to make her aunt's dream come true. But when her contraption doesn't fl y but rather hovers for a momen