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Heroes and Superheroes

Many kids are fascinated by superheroes, with their extraordinary powers and awesome adventures. We also celebrate the lives of real-life heroes — athletes, artists, activists, and government leaders — role models who stood up for what's right and fair. We've gathered up a great collection of books, activities, apps, and websites for learning all about heroes and superheroes.

Try pairing fiction with nonfiction books and exploring different genres [6] (like poetry and biographies) and formats (like graphic novels and audio books). You'll be creating your own "text sets" — collections of texts focused on a specific topic, such as heroes and superheroes. Reading widely in this way helps children build background knowledge [7], vocabulary [8], and comprehension skills.

You may also want to explore the books and hands-on activities featured in our guide, Meet the Trailblazers: Remarkable Men and Women of Color Who Helped to Shape our World [9].

 

Heroes and Superheroes

How to explore this theme:

  • Read fiction and nonfiction books
  • Try some hands-on activities
  • Build writing skills with these fun ideas
  • Dig deeper with kid-friendly websites
  • Listen and learn with these podcasts especially for kids
  • Play and learn with mobile apps

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Great Fiction & Nonfiction Books

Age Level: 3-6 years old

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A Is for Activist

By: Innosanto Nagara

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Each spread presents a letter and a bit of social commentary urging children to take a stand...

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Awesome Dawson

By: Chris Dall

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Dawson has been collecting and reusing everything ever since he was a baby but he must rescue the...

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Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909

By: Michelle Markell

Age Level: 3-6 years old

In the early 20th century, Clara Lemlick and her family immigrated to the United in search of a...

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Helpers in Your Neighborhood

By: Shira Evans

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Nonfiction

Get to know the everyday heroes in your community! From firefighters to teachers, mail carriers...

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John Henry

By: Julius Lester

Age Level: 3-6 years old

John Henry's talent was evident at an early age when he helped his daddy, but was cemented...

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More Than Anything Else

By: Marie Bradby

Age Level: 3-6 years old

More than anything else, young Booker T. Washington wanted to read. This fictionalized account...

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Rosa's Bus: The Ride to Civil Rights

By: Jo Kittinger

Age Level: 3-6 years old

No one knew that when "Bus #2857 rolled off the assembly line in 1948 ... [that it] would...

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Tasty Baby Belly Buttons

By: Judy Sierra

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Uriko is small but brave, determined, and smart. In fact, she saves the town’s children when...

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The Impossible Patriotism Project

By: Linda Skeers

Age Level: 3-6 years old

Fiction

Caleb's class is making projects that represent patriotism but Caleb can't think of a way to...

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Age Level: 6-9 years old

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A Picture Book of Jackie Robinson

By: David Adler

Age Level: 6-9 years old

A portrait of a true American sports hero, Jackie Robinson, who was the first African American...

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A Picture Book of Jesse Owens

By: David Adler

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Jesse Owens was a breakthrough athlete — an African American who captured the world stage (...

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A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By: David Adler

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

Born in 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. grew up to become a civil rights leader whose philosophy...

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Abe's Honest Words

By: Doreen Rappaport

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

A straightforward overview of Lincoln's life is punctuated by Lincoln's words and...

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Annie and Helen

By: Deborah Hopkinson

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Anne Sullivan arrived at the Keller home in 1887, writing letters to a friend about how she worked...

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Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy US Marshall

By: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Formerly enslaved in the 19th century, Bass Reeves escaped Texas and lived with Indians. It was...

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Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote

By: Kirsten Gillibrand

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

Here are the stories of 10 leaders who strove to win the right to vote for American women--a...

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Bright Path: Young Jim Thorpe

By: Don Brown

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Jim Thorpe's childhood was a mix of hard work in the outdoors and a succession of military-...

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Captain America Joins the Mighty Avengers

By: Rich Thomas

Age Level: 6-9 years old

How Captain American becomes one of the Avengers — superheroes that included Thor and the...

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Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story

By: Joseph Bruchac

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

During World War II, Chester was recruited by the US Marines to use the Navajo language to...

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Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend and Tall Tale

By: Robert San Souci

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Fiction

From the Northeast to the West, the United States is filled with stories of wise, strong, and...

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Daring Dozen: The Twelve Who Walked on the Moon

By: Suzanne Slade

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

Spare, poetic text and luminous, realistic illustrations chronicle the Apollo missions....

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Elizabeth Started All the Trouble

By: Doreen Rappaport

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Women could not attend college, enter politics or vote when the United States was established....

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Encyclopedia Mythologica: Gods and Heroes Pop-Up

By: Matthew Reinhart, Robert Sabuda

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Six beautifully illustrated full-page spreads, each including a dramatic paper-sculpture...

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Family Is a Superpower

By: Michael Dahl

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Fiction

Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman have many extraordinary abilities, but their greatest...

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Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table

By: Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Martin shares the remarkable life story of former professional basketball player Will Allen,...

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Fight of the Century: Alice Paul Battles Woodrow Wilson for the Vote

By: Barb Rosenstock

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

When Woodrow Wilson was elected President, he didn't know that he would be participating in one...

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Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh

By: Robert Burleigh

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Charles Lindbergh was only 25 years old when he made his historic non-stop flight across the...

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Float Like a Butterfly

By: Ntozake Shange

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Visually stunning and informative, Ali’s early life, how it influenced him, as well as his many...

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Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins

By: Carole Boston Weatherford

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

A girl and her mom want to have a sweet treat on a hot day but cannot sit at the soda fountain...

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Go for the Moon: A Rocket, a Boy, and the First Moon Landing

By: Chris Gall

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

A boy looking out his bedroom window into the night sky begins, “The moon is out tonight. In the...

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Grandad Mandela

By: Zazi Mandela, Ziwelene Mandela, Zondwa Mandela

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

Zazi and Ziwelene’s great-grandad is called Nelson Mandela. Once day, they ask their grandmother...

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Greta and the Giants

By: Zoe Tucker

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Fiction

This picture book retells the story of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greta Thunberg—the Swedish...

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Harvesting Hope: The Story of César Chávez

By: Kathleen Krull

Age Level: 6-9 years old

As a young boy, César Chávez grew up on a an 80-acre ranch in Arizona in the midst of joyous family...

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Hold the Flag High: The True Story of the First Black Medal of Honor Winner

By: Catherine Clinton

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

The story of the first Black Medal of Freedom winner and a stirring account of one of the most...

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I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark

By: Debbie Levy

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing: disagreeing with...

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Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth

By: Michelle Duster

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

Ida B. Wells was an educator, journalist, feminist, businesswoman, newspaper owner, public...

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Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told

By: Walter Dean Myers

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

Ida B. Wells worked bravely as an activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and...

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John Henry: An American Legend

By: Ezra Jack Keats

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

John Henry was born to be a hero – strong, competitive and determined. The legendary steel-...

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Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

By: Andrea Pinkney

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

Brief sketches of the lives of both well-known (for example, Harriet Tubman) and lesser known...

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Lunch Lady and the Mutant Mathletes

By: Jarrett Krosoczka

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Can the Lunch Lady protect the Breakfast Bunch of Thompson Creek School from evil mutants posing as...

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Magic Pickle

By: Scott Morse

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Sophisticated readers will appreciate the over-the-top adventures of a cryogenic pickle that...

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Malala's Magic Pencil

By: Malala Yousafzai

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around...

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Malala: Activist for Girls' Education

By: Raphaële Frier

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Malala’s story is one of the resilience that comes from strong conviction. It is told through a...

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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By: Doreen Rappaport

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

Martin Luther King Jr. grew up fascinated by big words. He would later go on to use these words...

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Meet the Marvel Super Heroes

By: Scott Peterson

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Fiction

The comics have produced many heroes with very special powers. Male and female superheroes, an easy...

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Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School

By: Janet Halfmann

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

Lilly Ann Granderson,, who was enslaved, secretly learned to read and write as a child and...

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Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman

By: Alan Schroeder

Age Level: 6-9 years old

This beautifully written book, illustrated by four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Jerry Pinkney,...

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Molly, by Golly! The Legend of Molly Williams, America's First Female Firefighter

By: Dianne Ochiltree

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

Williams was a cook for New York City's volunteer Fire Company 11 in the early 1800s. When a...

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My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth

By: Ann Turner

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Isabella Baumfree was born into slavery but she would not remain enslaved. Instead, she took the...

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Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters

By: Barack Obama

Age Level: 6-9 years old

In this tender letter to his daughters, President Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to...

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Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott

By: Dee Romito

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

The life story of Georgia Gilmore, a woman whose pies and delicious homemade cooking helped...

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Preaching to the Chickens: the Story of Young John Lewis

By: Jabari Asim

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

As a child, John Lewis always practiced his deep religious convictions, even with his much loved...

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Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World

By: Laurie Lawlor

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Rachel Carson was a shy child, always drawn to nature. She grew up to become a professional...

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Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of John "Appleseed" Chapman

By: Esme Raji Codell

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, changed his world "seed by seed, deed by deed"...

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Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World

By: Susan Hood

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

This book of poems introduces fourteen revolutionary young women—each paired with a...

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She Persisted: Harriet Tubman

By: Andrea Davis Pinkney

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

Born enslaved, Harriet Tubman rose up to become one of the most successful, determined and well-...

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Side by Side: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez / /Lado a Lado: La Historia de Dolores Huerta y Cesar Chavez

By: Monica Brown

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

This bilingual book pairs the dual stories of powerful activists César Chávez and Dolores Huerta...

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Sidekicks

By: Dan Santat

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Captain Amazing, superhero and savior of Metro City, is getting old — he needs a sidekick!...

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Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride

By: Andrea Pinkney, Brian Pinkney

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Lively language and energetic illustrations create a memorable portrait of a woman who was to...

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Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx

By: Jonah Winter

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Poverty didn’t stop this girl from working hard, reading lots of books, and graduating top in...

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Stealing Home: Jackie Robinson Against the Odds

By: Robert Burleigh

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Lush, realistic illustrations combine with a simple text to suggest what it must have been like...

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Superhero School

By: Aaron Reynolds

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Leonard is disappointed in superhero school; the only thing his teacher, The Blue Tornado, talks...

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Susan B. Anthony

By: Alexandra Wallner

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Susan B. Anthony lived and worked as a teacher when women were paid less for the same jobs...

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Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

By: Deborah Hopkinson

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Clara is born into slavery but learns an important skill when she becomes a seamstress. Her...

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Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers' Rights

By: Deborah Hopkinson

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

After Frances Perkins witnessed the Triangle Waist Factory fire in 1911, she decided to...

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The Adventures of Sparrowboy

By: Brian Pinkney

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Fiction

Mild-mannered paperboy Henry collides with a sparrow and turns into Sparrowboy just like his...

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

By: William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer

Age Level: 6-9 years old

When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone's crops...

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The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial

By: Susan E. Goodman

Age Level: 6-9 years old

More than a century before Brown v. Board of Education, there was Roberts v. City of Boston....

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The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams

By: Tanya Lee Stone

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

The story of Jane Addams who transformed a poor neighborhood in Chicago by opening up her house...

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The Incredible Life of Balto

By: Meghan McCarthy

Age Level: 6-9 years old

A dog saved the people of Nome, Alaska in 1925 when a sled team was the only way to fetch...

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The Mighty 12: Superheroes of Greek Myth

By: Charles Smith

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Greek gods and goddesses are the stuff of contemporary superheroes. Dramatic full-color,...

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The Story of Harriet Tubman

By: Christine Platt

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

Explore how Harriet Tubman went from being an enslaved person on a plantation in Maryland to one...

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The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist

By: Cynthia Levinson

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

Audrey Faye Hendricks was confident and bold and brave as can be, and hers is the remarkable and...

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Thunder Rose

By: Jerdine Nolan

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Fiction

In this tall tale, Thunder Rose vows to grow up to be more than just big...

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What Lincoln Said

By: Sarah Thomson

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Lincoln's own words punctuate this overview of his life and times including lighter moments...

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William Still and His Freedom Stories

By: Don Tate

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Nonfiction

William Still was the youngest child of parents who escaped slavery and went on to become the...

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Wings

By: Christopher Myers

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Stunning, bold collage illustrations carry the action in this reworking of the traditional Greek...

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Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass

By: Lesa Cline-Ransome

Age Level: 6-9 years old

A young Frederick Douglass narrates this handsome, moving, and authentic story of his early life as...

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Young Zeus

By: G. Brian Karas

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Young Zeus — the Greek god who grew up to rule on Mount Olympus — is introduced with...

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Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Makes a Splash

By: Jacqueline Jules

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Freddie Ramos' super running and jumping powers and his confidence disappear after the loss of...

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Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off

By: Jacqueline Jules

Age Level: 6-9 years old

Product Description: One day Freddie Ramos comes home from school and finds a strange box just...

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Age Level: 9-12 years old

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12 Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali

By: Charles R. Smith, Jr.

Age Level: 9-12 years old

From the moment a fired-up teenager won 1960 Olympic gold to the day when a retired legend...

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Because They Marched: The People's Campaign for Voting Rights that Changed America

By: Russell Freedman

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Nonfiction

Fifty years ago well-known civil rights leaders came together with other lesser known but key...

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Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony

By: Nikki Grimes

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Underground Railroad “conductor” Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, a staunch proponent of...

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Civil Rights Pioneer: A Story About Mary Church Terrell

By: Gwenyth Swain

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Nonfiction

Terrell worked to gain equal rights for herself and other African Americans, and is best-known...

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Coretta Scott King: I Kept on Marching

By: Kathleen Krull

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Before she married Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott was known for her beautiful singing voice...

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Dream Big Dreams: Photographs from Barack Obama's Inspiring and Historic Presidency

By: Pete Souza

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Nonfiction

With behind-the-scenes anecdotes of some iconic photos alongside photos with his family,...

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Finish the Fight! The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

By: Veronica Chambers Staff of the, New York Times

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Nonfiction

Who was at the forefront of women's right to vote? What about so many others from diverse...

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For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai's Story

By: Rebecca Langston-George

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Nonfiction

A straightforward, illustrated narration tells the story of the brave Pakistani girl who fought...

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Henry Aaron's Dream

By: Matt Tavares

Age Level: 9-12 years old

In spite of growing up in the 1940s before the United States was integrated, in a segregated...

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History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote

By: Kate Messner

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Nonfiction

Susan B. Anthony wasn't even alive when the 19th Amendment was ratified. The truth is, it took...

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How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea

By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Nonfiction

Celebrate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in America with this story of the little-...

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I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero

By: Brad Meltzer

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Nonfiction

The life of the man whose name is associated with nonviolent protest is presented in graphic...

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Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

Age Level: 9-12 years old

This fact and fun-filled look at female contributions to the American Revolution provides a...

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Lives: Poems About Famous Americans

By: Lee Bennett Hopkins

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Well-known figures in American history are presented by diverse poets in a range of styles,...

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Lost in Outer Space: The Incredible Journey of Apollo 13

By: Tod Olson

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Nonfiction

From "Houston, we've had a problem" to the final tense moments at Mission Control, Lost in Outer...

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March: Book One

By: John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

Age Level: 9-12 years old

John Lewis, son of a sharecropper, grew up to become an activist and later, a U.S. Congressman....

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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

By: Carole Boston Weatherford

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Dramatic full-color illustrations (which won a Caldecott Honor) and splendid, poetic language...

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Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag

By: Rob Sanders

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Have you ever wondered where the rainbow flag comes from? It all began with the first openly gay...

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She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland

By: Loki Mulholland

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Early experiences brought the inequality of America into focus for young Joan, a white...

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The Breadwinner

By: Deborah Ellis

Age Level: 9-12 years old

Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in...

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The Escape of Robert Smalls: A Daring Voyage Out of Slavery

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In the midst of the deadly U.S. Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls was about to...

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The Hero's Trail

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Age Level: 9-12 years old

What is a hero? Using the metaphor of a hiking trail, this book showcases the great variety of...

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The Undefeated

By: Kwame Alexander

Age Level: 9-12 years old

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The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane

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Age Level: 9-12 years old

Using excerpts from Wilbur's and Orville's journals and letters, young readers will find a...

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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer

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Age Level: 9-12 years old

Stirring poems and vibrant collage illustrations combine to celebrate the life of Fannie Lou...

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We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History

By: Philip Hoose

Age Level: 9-12 years old

From the boys who sailed with Columbus to today's young activists, this unique book brings to...

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Words That Built a Nation: Voices of Democracy That Have Shaped America’s History

By: Marilyn Miller

Age Level: 9-12 years old

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Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist

By: Philip Dray

Age Level: 9-12 years old

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Journalist Ida B. Wells faces the greatest challenge of her life as a tireless crusader for...

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Hands-on Activities

Build on what you're learning together through books with these family-friendly activities, experiments, and crafts.

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    Dragon Hunter Goggles [236]
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    Flashlight Morse Code [237]
  • Harry Potter Potions [238]
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  • Votes for Women Game [243]
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Summer Writing

Give kids a chance to flex their writing muscles all summer long. Try one of these prompts, selected from our writing contest archives and other literacy organizations.

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  • Celebrate Heroes [246]
  • Create a Comic Strip in 7 Easy Steps [247]
  • Letter to a Local Hero [248]
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Great Websites for Kids

Dive deeper into topics of interest with these media-rich and interactive sites.

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  • Indy Kids: A Paper for Kids by Kids [253]
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Great Podcasts for Kids

Listen and learn with these podcasts especially for kids. These podcasts are free and easy to listen to from any device via Apple Podcasts [261], Google Podcasts [262], or Stitcher [263] — or from Listen Notes [264], a podcast search engine.

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Educational apps recommended by Common Sense Media and other trusted reviewers.

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  • Thomas Jefferson Memorial [310]
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