Books like Catching the moon by Crystal Hubbard

A verse novel that follows a ten‑year‑old Vietnamese girl’s first year in the United States in 1975, as she navigates language, culture, bullying, and family change while yearning for home.

Mexican farm workers must adjust to life in California during the Great Depression.

Newbery Honor Book National Book Award Finalist

A diverse group of city residents turns a neglected urban lot in Cleveland into a thriving garden, discovering friendship and renewal along the way.

A bold picture book where a young Indigenous protector stands against a black snake threatening Earth’s water, echoing real‑world Indigenous movements to safeguard the planet’s most vital resource.

A young girl, her mother who works as a waitress, and her grandmother set aside a few dimes to purchase a cozy armchair after their home is destroyed by fire.

Virginia Hamilton retells 24 authentic African‑American folk tales—from animal stories to supernatural adventures and slave‑era memories—in vivid prose, illustrated by 40 expressive paintings.

HE WAS A WANTED MAN When outlaw Jack. Rafferty stumbled upon the Wild West show, he took his chances and went into the gypsy's tent--only to find his fortune changed forever. Sloe-eyed Madame LaBelle seemed to see right through him. But Jack discovered that she had a few sultry secrets of her own. Striking a bargain with the bewitching beauty, he couldn't know that all hell was about to break loose. Now Jack was on the run ' again, and the stakes were higher than ever. He had to clear his name--and protect the woman he loved . ...AND SHE WANTED HIM! Amber LaBelliwas no gypsy, and no psychic, either. But she knew that the seductive rogue with the dangerous eyes was running from something. That made two of them. Yet as she and Jack fled for their lives across a treacherous northern wilderness; Amber couldn't have predicted that what had begun as a mutual deception would flame into a raging passion that couldn't be denied.

Biography of Mamie 'Peanut' Johnson, one of only three women to play professional baseball in the Negro Leagues

Presents a biography of the first black baseball player to play in the major leagues when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Also traces the history of all-black baseball teams.

When fifteen‑year‑old Farrin meets Sadira, their friendship blossoms into a forbidden love hidden beneath Iran’s repressive regime. Together they dream of a future where they can live freely, yet must conceal their bond from families and a vigilant school monitor to survive.