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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorGrandfather'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.
All-of-a-Kind Family
Sydney Taylor · 189 pages
The life of a Jewish family with seven children growing up on New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century is the subject of this series. It includes All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown, All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown, Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family, and others.
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
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.
A Day's Work
Eve Bunting · 32 pages
When Francisco, a young Mexican American boy, tries to help his grandfather find work, he discovers that even though the old man cannot speak English, he has something even more valuable to teach Francisco.
Meet Kirsten: An American Girl
Janet Beeler Shaw · 61 pages
Nine-year-old Kirsten and her family experience many hardships as they travel from Sweden to the Minnesota frontier in 1854.
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 Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi · 352 pages
From inside front cover: The story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a ... loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a coutnry plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trails of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming -- both sweet and terrible; and, fina
This Is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration
Jacqueline Woodson · 31 pages
A rope passed down through the generations frames an African American family's story as they journey north during the time of the Great Migration.
The Relatives Came
Cynthia Rylant · 32 pages
The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.
Tomas and the Library Lady
Pat Mora · 40 pages
While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.
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
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.
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
Grandpa 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
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading rainbow book)
Cynthia Rylant, Diane Goode · 32 pages
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.
Jingle Dancer
Cynthia Leitich Smith · 32 pages
Jenna, a member of the Muscogee, or Creek, Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow. Includes a note about the jingle dance tradition and its regalia.
Her Right Foot
Dave Eggers
If you had to name a statue, any statue, odds are good you’d mention the Statue of Liberty. Have you seen her? She’s in New York. She’s holding a torch. And she’s in mid-stride, moving forward. But why? In this fascinating and fun take on nonfiction, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America’s most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than h
My Place
Nadia Wheatley · 48 pages
The Berenstain Bears and the Week at Grandma's
Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain · 32 pages
When Brother and Sister Bear get left with their grandparents for a whole week, they have a better time than they expected.
A Chair for My Mother
Vera B. Williams · 32 pages
The Boston Girl
Anita Diamant · 322 pages
A story "about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's in
Meet Rebecca
Jacqueline Dembar Greene
In 1914 New York City, nine-year-old Rebecca is determined to show her family that she is old enough to light the Shabbos candles and go to the movies.