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24 books with the same feel
Include 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.
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.
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.
Wherever You Are My Love Will Find You
Nancy Tillman
Children feel the reassuring love of their parents no matter where they go or what they do.
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan · 64 pages
This Newbery Medal winning book and children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love. The 30th Anniversary edition includes author Patricia MacLachlan s Newbery speech, discussion guide a
My Many Colored Days
Dr. Seuss
This rhyming story describes each day in terms of a particular color which in turn is associated with specific emotions.
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.
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
Margarita Engle · 44 pages
Follows a young Cuban girl in the 1930s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there's never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
Thunder Cake
Patricia Polacco · 32 pages
Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
The Kissing Hand
Audrey Penn · 32 pages
When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.
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.
Koala Lou
Mem Fox · 32 pages
A young koala, longing to hear her mother speak lovingly to her as she did before other children came along, plans to win her distracted parent's attention.
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
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
Each Kindness
Jacqueline Woodson
When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
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
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
Susan Wojciechowski · 40 pages
The widow McDowell and her seven-year-old son Thomas ask the gruff Jonathan Toomey, the best wood-carver in the valley, to carve the figures for a Christmas creche.
The Red Tree
Shaun Tan · 32 pages
"Sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to ..." Intricate illustrations vividly portray troubled emotions, ending with a bright possibility.
Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram · 32 pages
Welcome the family classic with an elegant, refreshed cover — the quintessential picture book, just waiting to be shared. Sometimes, when you love someone very, very much, you want to find a way of describing how much you treasure them. But, as Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare discover, love is not an easy thing to measure! For two decades, Sam McBratney’s timelessly endearing story,
The Velveteen Rabbit
Margery Williams Bianco · 40 pages
In the nursery, only the toys that are old and wise truly understand what it means to be Real. The Velveteen Rabbit, a newcomer to the nursery, asks one of the most knowledgeable toys, the Skin Horse, what being real means.
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.
You Are Special
Max Lucado · 32 pages
Punchinello's opinion of himself changes after talking to his creator.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor · 276 pages
Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, it is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence. It is a story of physical survival, but more important, it is a story of the survival of the human spirit. And, too, it is Cassie's story -- Cassie Logan, an independent girl raised by a family for whom independence is primary, a family determined not t