Sonoma County Reads / The Big Read 2008
To Kill a Mockingbird Read-alike List - Suggested books for children
EASY BOOKS
E Bradby |
Momma, where are you from? |
E Bradby |
More than anything else |
E Flournoy |
Patchwork quilt |
E Grifalconi |
Tiny’s hat |
E Howard |
Virgie goes to school with us boys |
E Lindsay |
Sweet potato pie |
E Littlesugar |
Tree of hope |
E Miller |
Richard Wright and the library card |
E Raven |
Circle unbroken: the story of a basket and its people |
E Stauffacher |
Bessie Smith and the night-riders |
FICTION
JFC Rosales |
Minnie saves the day |
J Armstrong |
Sounder |
J Curtis |
Bud, not Buddy |
J Dudley |
Bicycle man |
J Fugua |
Darby |
J Harrington |
Going north |
J Hoobler |
1920’s: luck |
J McKissack |
Color me dark: the diary of Nellie Lee Love |
J McKissack |
Porch lies |
J McKissack |
Song for Harlem |
J Rubright |
Mama’s window |
J Taylor |
Gold Cadillac |
J Taylor |
Let the circle be unbroken |
J Taylor |
Mississippi bridge |
J Taylor |
Roll of thunder, hear my cry |
J Taylor |
The well: David’s story |
J Vander Zee |
Mississippi morning |
J Weatherford |
Dear Mr. Rosenwald |
J Wiles |
Each little bird that sings |
J Young |
Learning by heart |
FOLKLORE
J 398 McKissack |
The dark thirty |
J 398 Van Laan |
With a hoop and a holler: a bushel of lore from the South |
J 398.2 Hamilton |
When birds could talk and bats could sing |
J 398.2 Lester |
Brer Rabbit stories: 4 vols. |
J 398.2 Reneaux |
How animals saved the people: animal tales from the South |
J 398.2 San Souci |
Sukey and the mermaid |
J 398.2 San Souci |
Sister tricksters: rollicking tales of clever females |
NON-FICTION
J 304.8 Haskins |
Out of the darkness: the story of blacks moving North, 1890-1940 |
J 305.89 George |
Life under Jim Crow laws |
J 331.88 McKissack |
A long hard journey: the story of the Pullman porter |
J 759.13 Igus |
Going back home: an artist returns to the South |
J 810.8 Hudson |
Powerful words |
J 811 Myers |
Blues journey |
J 973 Rappaport |
Free at last!: stories and songs of the Emancipation |
J 973.04 Haskins |
Geography of hope: Black exodus from the South after Reconstruction |
J 973.04 |
Kids explore America’s African American heritage |
J 973.04 Morris |
Grandma Lois remembers: an African American family |
J B Bethune |
Mary McLeod Bethune: a great teacher |
J B DuBois |
W.E.B. DuBois |
J B Garvey |
Marcus Garvey: Black Nationalist |
J B Hurston |
Sorrow’s kitchen: the life and folklore of Zora Neale Hurston |
J B Hurston |
Zora Neale Hurston: Southern storyteller |
J B Woodson |
Carter G. Woodson: the father of Black history |
