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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Big Wave
Pearl S. Buck · 64 pages
His family and village swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.
Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans
Phil Bildner · 38 pages
A man known as the "Trashcan Wizard" sings and dances his way through the French Quarter in New Orleans, keeping his beloved city clean, until Hurricane Katrina's devastation nearly causes him to lose his spirit.
The Moomins and the Great Flood
Tove Jansson · 64 pages
After Disasters
Viet Dinh · 265 pages
Beautifully and hauntingly written, "After Disasters" is told through the eyes of four people in the wake of a life-shattering earthquake in India. An intricate story of love and loss weaves together the emotional and intimate narratives of Ted, a pharmaceutical salesman turned member of the Disaster Assistance Response Team; his colleague Piotr, who still carries with him the scars of the Bosnia
Wabi Sabi
Mark Reibstein
Wabi Sabi, a little cat in Kyoto , Japan , had never thought much about her name until friends visiting from another land asked her owner what it meant. At last, the master Says, "That's hard to explain." And That is all she says.This unsatisfying answer sets Wabi Sabi on a journey to uncover the meaning of her name, and on the way discovers what wabi sabi is: a Japanese philosophy of seeing beau
Tea with Milk
Allen Say · 32 pages
After growing up near San Francisco, a young Japanese woman returns with her parents to their native Japan, but she feels foreign and out of place. Historia de una chica japonesa educada en Estados Unidos, quien al regresar a su país tiene que superar obstáculos para poder adaptarse a su nuevo hogar.
Take Me Out to the Yakyu
Aaron Meshon
A little boy's grandfathers, one in America and one in Japan, teach him about baseball and its rich, varying cultural traditions.
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Makoto Shinkai · 184 pages
"Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a rural town deep in the mountains, has a dream that she is a boy living an unfamiliar life in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo, dreams that he is a girl living in the mountains. As they realize they are changing places, their encounter sets the cogs of fate into motion."--
Crow Boy
Taro Yashima · 37 pages
A story of a strange, shy, small boy who is isolated by his differences from other children in a Japanese village school.
Dingoes at Dinnertime
Mary Pope Osborne · 79 pages
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
Barefoot Gen, Volume Three: Life After the Bomb
Keiji Nakazawa · 284 pages
The Funny Little Woman
Arlene Mosel · 40 pages
The story is set in "Old Japan." The title character likes to laugh ("Tee-he-he-he") and make rice dumplings.
Hurricane
David Wiesner · 32 pages
The morning after a hurricane, two brothers find an uprooted tree which becomes a magical place, transporting them on adventures limited only by their imaginations.
Noah's Ark
Peter Spier · 48 pages
Retells in pictures how a pair of every manner of creature climbed on board Noah's ark and thereby survived the Flood.
The Long Winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 334 pages
After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
Stormy, Misty's Foal
Marguerite Henry · 224 pages
A raging storm slashes across Assateague and Chincoteague islands. Water is everywhere The wild ponies and the people must battle for their lives. In the midst of the storm, Misty--the famous mare of Chincoteague--is about to give birth. Paul and Maureen are frantic with worry as the storm rages on... will Misty and her colt survive? This is the thrilling story of the hurricane that destroye
Thea Stilton and the Cherry Blossom Adventure
Thea Stilton
To catch a thief! The Thea Sisters are off to Japan on a cultural exchange program. While they're busy exploring Kyoto and admiring the beautiful cherry blossoms, a valuable item is stolen, from their friend Kumi's family. Will the five mice be able to catch the thief?
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
Peter Roop, Connie Roop · 40 pages
In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.
Breath of Earth
Beth Cato · 387 pages
"In an alternate 1906, the United States and Japan have forged a powerful confederation-- the Unified Pacific--in an attempt to dominate the world. Their first target is a vulnerable China. In San Francisco, headstrong secretary Ingrid Carmichael is assisting a group of powerful geomancer wardens who have no idea of the depth of her own talent--or that she is the only woman to possess such skills.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Judi Barrett · 32 pages
Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.