8 Top childrens books like Swimming With Seals by Maggie de Vries

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Swimming With Seals

By: Maggie de Vries

3.85

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Ally isn't able to live with her mother. Instead she lives far, far away, on the other side of the …

If you liked the childrens plot in Swimming With Seals by Maggie de Vries , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. There's No Such Thing as a Dragon

By: Jack Kent

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Billy Bixbee's mother won't admit that dragons exist until it is nearly too late. read more

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2. Ban This Book

By: Alan Gratz

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

-Readers, librarians, and all those books that have drawn a challenge have a brand new hero.... Sta… read more

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  • childrens
"Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person"

-Alan Gratz, Ban This Book

"She was disappointed, I could tell, and suddenly the only thing I wanted in the world was to please her."

-Alan Gratz, Ban This Book

3. Bink & Gollie (Bink & Gollie, #1)

By: Kate DiCamillo , Alison McGhee , Tony Fucile

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2011 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award! In a brilliant collaboration, best-selling authors K… read more

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4. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

By: Carole Boston Weatherford

4.48

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in US history. The… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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5. Under My Hijab

By: Hena Khan

4.39

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Grandma wears it clasped under her chin. Aunty pins hers up with a beautiful brooch. Jenna puts it … read more

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  • childrens
  • family
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6. The Saturday Night Ghost Club

By: Craig Davidson

3.85

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of "Stranger Things" and "S… read more

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"You always fall hardest the first time, don’t you? There’s no bottom to it."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"Our boy owes us nothing. No boy owes his parents. Parents owe their children everything, always and unconditionally, and that's just the way it goes."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"Everybody could be doing something better without their lives. Name me one person who is doing the best, most righteous thing with their life this very minute."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

"As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don’t allow them to slot into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all."

-Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

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7. Chaiwala!

By: Priti Birla Maheshwari

3.95

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

A sensory celebration of family, food, and culture When their train makes a 10-minute stop at the … read more

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  • childrens
  • family
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8. The Bluest of Blues: Anna Atkins and the First Book of Photographs

By: Fiona Robinson

4.10

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

An ALSC Notable Children's Book A Junior Library Guild Selection A Bank Street Best Children's Bo… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
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9. Tofu Takes Time

By: Helen H. Wu

4.30

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Homemade tofu is good, and good things take time. CLICK CLACK WHIRRRR . . . Lin and her grandma… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
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10. Swimming With Seals

By: Maggie de Vries

3.85

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Ally isn't able to live with her mother. Instead she lives far, far away, on the other side of the … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • family
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11. You Are Revolutionary

By: Cindy Wang Brandt

4.36

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

You have what it takes to change the world! This is the empowering message parenting author and pod… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens

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Scott Campbell

4.14

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Angela DiTerlizzi , Brendan Wenzel

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Eric Carle

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Doug Salati

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