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24 books with the same feel
Hide books by the same authorHenry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Ellen Levine · 40 pages
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Deborah Hopkinson · 40 pages
A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North.
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
Alan Schroeder · 40 pages
Young Harriet Tubman, whose childhood name was Minty, dreams of escaping slavery on the Brodas plantation in the late 1820s.
The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark
Carmen Agra Deedy · 32 pages
Retells the story of King Christian X and the Danish resistance to the Nazis during World War II.
Wonderstruck
Brian Selznick · 639 pages
Expanding upon the genre-breaking form he invented in his trailblazing debut novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick creates another awe-inspiring and multi-layered reading experience. Wonderstruck weaves together two compelling,independent stories, set fifty years apart. Ben's story, which takes place in 1977, is told in words; Rose's story in 1927 is told in pictures. Ever since his
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom
Tim Tingle · 40 pages
In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky
Faith Ringgold · 32 pages
With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the Underground Railroad in order to reunite with her younger brother.
New Shoes
Susan Lynn Meyer
"In this historical fiction picture book, Ella Mae and her cousin Charlotte, both African American, start their own shoe store when they learn that they cannot try on shoes at the shoe store"--
Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad
Henry Cole · 40 pages
In this wordless picture book, a young Southern farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding behind the corn crib in the barn and decides to help him.
Barbed Wire Baseball
Marissa Moss · 48 pages
As a boy, Kenichi “Zeni” Zenimura dreams of playing professional baseball, but everyone tells him he is too small. Yet he grows up to be a successful player, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family are sent to one of ten internment camps where more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry are imprisoned without trials. Zeni brings t
Ruth and the Green Book
Calvin Alexander Ramsey
When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them. Includes facts about "The Green Book."
Uncle Jed's Barbershop
Margaree King Mitchell · 40 pages
Addy, an American girl Boxed Set
Connie Rose Porter · 460 pages
One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
Katie Smith Milway · 32 pages
Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family's Journey
Margriet Ruurs
Rama and her family are forced to leave behind everything they know and love. With only what they can carry on their backs, Rama's family sets out to find refuge in Europe. Syrian artist Nizar Ali Badr's stunning stone images illustrate Margriet Ruurs' thoughtful story. --back cover
A Little House Birthday
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 40 pages
After a long and somber Sunday, a little pioneer girl celebrates her fifth birthday in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
Freedom in Congo Square
Carole Boston Weatherford · 40 pages
Six days a week, slaves labor from sunup to sundown and beyond, but on Sunday afternoons, they gather with free blacks at Congo Square outside New Orleans, free from oppression. Includes foreword about Congo Square by Freddi Williams Evans, glossary, and historical notes.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate DiCamillo · 228 pages
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost...Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustl
One Green Apple
Eve Bunting · 32 pages
While on a school field trip to an orchard to make cider, a young immigrant named Farah gains self-confidence when the green apple she picks perfectly complements the other students' red apples.
The Quilt Story
Tony Johnston, Tomie dePaola · 32 pages
A pioneer mother lovingly stitches a beautiful quilt which warms and comforts her daughter Abigail; many years later another mother mends and patches it for her little girl.
Polar: The Titanic Bear
Daisy Corning Stone Spedden · 64 pages
Rosa
Nikki Giovanni · 34 pages
The story of Rosa Parks and her courageous act of defiance. Provides the story of the young black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Alabama, setting in motion all the events of the Civil Rights Movements that resulted in the end of the segregated south, gave equality to blacks throughout the nation, and forever changed the country in which we all live today. She had not
Pink and Say
Patricia Polacco
Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.