A Is for Activist
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Awesome Dawson
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Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
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Helpers in Your Neighborhood
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John Henry
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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
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Rosa's Bus: The Ride to Civil Rights
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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
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The Impossible Patriotism Project
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Caleb's class is making projects that represent patriotism but Caleb can't think of a way to...
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A Picture Book of Jackie Robinson
By: David Adler
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A Picture Book of Jesse Owens
By: David Adler
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A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
By: David Adler
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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
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Age Level: 6-9 years old
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Annie and Helen
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Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy US Marshall
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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
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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
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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
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Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story
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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
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Daring Dozen: The Twelve Who Walked on the Moon
By: Suzanne Slade
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
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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
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Family Is a Superpower
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Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman have many extraordinary abilities, but their greatest...
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Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table
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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
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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
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Age Level: 6-9 years old
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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
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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
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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
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Magic Pickle
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 noteworthy...
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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
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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 work to...
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The Adventures of Sparrowboy
By: Brian Pinkney
Age Level: 6-9 years old
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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
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In this tall tale, Thunder Rose vows to grow up to be more than just big and strong,...
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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
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Young Zeus
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
By: Jehan Jones-Radgowski
Age Level: 9-12 years old
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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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This poem is a love letter to black life in the U.S. It highlights the unspeakable trauma of...
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The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
By: Russell Freedman
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
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
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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
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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
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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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