We love When You Trap a Tiger, the story of Lily and her halmoni (grandmother), so we're so excited to virtually host the author, Tae Keller, tomorrow on Zoom!
If you've read When You Trap a Tiger and are looking for more books like it, we suggest the following titles.
We hope to see you tomorrow, July 20 at 4:00 pm to meet with Newbery Award-winning author Tae Keller!
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The total eclipse of Nestor Lopez
by Adrianna Cuevas A Cuban American boy must use his secret ability to communicate with animals to save the inhabitants of his town when they are threatened by a tule vieja, a witch that transforms into animals. |
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Louisiana's way home
by Kate DiCamillo Awakened in the middle of the night by her fanatically paranoid grandmother, who declares they must leave and never return because the day of reckoning has arrived, a young girl bonds with people in a new community and wonders how long she will be allowed to remain. |
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Hour of the bees
by Lindsay Eagar At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories. |
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How to make friends with the sea
by Tanya Guerrero Relocating to the politically charged Philippines for his father’s zoology work, a homesick 12-year-old boy navigates anxiety and changing perceptions of identity while helping his mother care for an orphaned child with special needs. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook. |
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Sunny side up
by Jennifer L Holm Sunny Lewin is sent to live with her grandfather for the summer in Florida, where she befriends Buzz, a boy completely obsessed with comic books, and faces the secret behind why she is in Florida in the first place. |
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Lalani of the distant sea
by Erin Entrada Kelly Twelve-year-old Lalani Sarita takes on the impossible task of traveling to the legendary Mount Isa, towering on an island to the north. Generations of men and boys have died on the same quest--how can a timid young girl in a tiny boat survive the epic tests of the archipelago? |
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The last fallen star : a Gifted clans novel
by Graci Kim Looking forward to her older sister’s initiation into their family’s powerful lineage of healing witches, an adopted Korean American girl born without magic triggers unexpected consequences while attempting to participate in her sister’s ceremony. |
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Where the mountain meets the moon
by Grace Lin Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River. |
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Wish girl
by Nikki Loftin Feeling out of place in an extroverted family that communicates by yelling, Peter finds tranquility in his relationship with Annie, a girl who is faced with surgery for a rapidly growing brain tumor. |
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Merci Suárez changes gears
by Meg Medina Alienated from her more privileged classmates at a Florida private school, sixth-grade scholarship student Merci Suarez is targeted by a competitive rival at the same time her beloved grandfather begins to develop memory problems. |
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No fixed address
by Susin Nielsen-Fernlund Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people. |
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Finding Junie Kim
by Ellen Oh A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents’ experiences as lost children during the Korean War. |
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The great wall of Lucy Wu
by Wendy Wan Long Shang Aspiring basketball star Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that she will have to share a room with her great-aunt for several months, shattering her plans for a perfect sixth-grade year. |
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Clean getaway
by Nic Stone William Lamar, known as "Scoob," goes on a road trip through the South with his grandmother in her recreational vehicle, visiting some of the major sites in the Civil Rights movement and learning about how people like him have been treated. |
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Sugar and spite
by Gail D. Villanueva Sneaking into her grandfather’s potions lab to brew a love spell that she hopes will stop a classmate’s bullying, herbalist trainee Jolina is surprised by the bully’s increasingly friendly overtures, before a magically consequential storm begins to gather. |