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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorInside Out & Back Again
Thanhha Lai · 274 pages
Inside Out & Back Again is a verse novel by Thanhha Lai. The book was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and one of the two Newbery Honors. The novel was based on her first year in the United States, as a ten-year-old girl who spoke no English in 1975.
Dogsbody
Diana Wynne Jones · 251 pages
LoC Summary: Sirius the dog star is reborn on earth as a puppy with a mission to search for the lost Zoi, the murder weapon of the stars.
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell · 226 pages
Black Beauty is the suspenseful and deeply moving account of a horse's experiences at the hands of many owners — some, sensitive riders who treated him gently; others, cruel drivers who thoughtlessly inflicted lasting damage. Written as the animal's autobiography, and as an appeal for the humane treatment of horses,
A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray
Ann M. Martin · 187 pages
Squirrel, a stray puppy, tells her life story, from her nurturing mother and brother to making her own way in the world, facing busy highways, changing seasons, and humans both gentle and brutal.
The Crossover
Kwame Alexander · 240 pages
"A bolt of lightning on my kicks, the court is sizzling, my sweat is drizzling. Stop all that quivering, cuz tonight I'm delivering," raps basketball phenom Josh Bell. Thanks to his dad, he and his twin brother, Jordan, are kings on the court, with crossovers that make even the toughest ballers cry. But Josh has more than hoops in his blood. He's got a river of rhymes flowing through him -- a sick
Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
Garth Stein · 305 pages
A dog decides that when he dies and returns to earth as a man, he will model his behavior after his beloved owner, a race car driver.
Mountain Dog
Margarita Engle · 227 pages
When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
Little Dog, Lost
Marion Dane Bauer, Jennifer A. Bell
A boy, a dog, and an old man are lonely before the boy plans a rally, the dog looks for a boy, and all the townspeople run to the old man's aid when lightning strikes his home and something miraculous happens.
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson · 368 pages
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
The Crazy Man
Pamela Porter · 176 pages
Twelve-year-old Emaline Bitterman loves her home on the prairies. She loves helping her father in the fields and her dog, Prince. But farming in southern Saskatchewan in the mid 1960s is not easy. And then one day Emaline tries to stop Prince from chasing a hare into the path of the tractor her father is driving, and her leg is caught in the discer, leaving her with a permanent disability. In his
The Dancing Pancake
Eileen Spinelli · 248 pages
DELICIOUS PANCAKES!!FREE!!ALL YOU CAN EAT!!COME TO OURNEW GRAND OPENING!The grand opening of the Dancing Pancake isn't the only new thing in Bindi's life: new friends, a new apartment, maybe even a cute new crush? But there are other changes, like her dad's move to a new city, that have left Bindi confused and wondering: What will happen to my family? Will this new life ever feel normal? Among the
The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary
Laura Shovan · 272 pages
"A story told in verse from multiple perspectives of the graduating fifth grade class of Emerson Elementary. The kids join together to try to save their school from being torn down to make way for a supermarket"--
Moo
Sharon Creech · 288 pages
Zora was chasing us. Mooooooooo. Mooooooooo. When we reached the gate Luke scrambled up and over it instead of through it and I was trying to follow when Zora s ENORMOUS HEAD loomed up below me and bumped me into the air.
Words with Wings
Nikki Grimes · 84 pages
Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her...until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "
A Dog's Way Home
W. Bruce Cameron · 336 pages
Lucas Ray is shocked when an adorable puppy jumps out of an abandoned building and into his arms. Though the apartment he shares with his mother, a disabled veteran, doesn?t allow dogs, Lucas can?t resist taking Bella home. Bella is inexplicably drawn to Lucas, even if she doesn?t understand the necessity of games like No Barks. As it becomes more difficult to hide her from the neighbors, Lucas be
Red Butterfly
A.L. Sonnichsen · 400 pages
A young orphaned girl in modern-day China discovers the meaning of family in this inspiring story told in verse, in the tradition of Inside Out and Back Again and Sold. Kara never met her birth mother. Abandoned as an infant, she was taken in by an American woman living in China. Now eleven, Kara spends most of her time in their apartment, wondering why she and Mama cannot leave the city of Tianji
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse · 235 pages
"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ." A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands. To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. Wh
May B.
Caroline Starr Rose
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
Rosanne Parry Voice of the Wilderness 2-Book Box Set
Rosanne Parry, Mónica Armiño Yela, Lindsay Moore
Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse
Tamera Will Wissinger · 128 pages
In this novel told through poems, nine-year-old Sam loves fishing with his dad, so when his pesky little sister horns in on their fishing trip, he is none too pleased. Includes primer on rhyme, poetry techniques, rhythm, stanzas, and poetic forms. In this novel told through poems, Sam loves fishing with his dad, so when his pesky little sister horns in on their fishing trip, he is none too please
War Horse
Michael Morpurgo · 158 pages
In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.