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10 True Tales: Young Civil Rights Heroes

Written by Allan Zullo

This book is a collection of 10 vignettes about the civil rights era. The focus of these stories is...

8th - 12th

This Is Our Constitution: Discover America with a Gold Star Father

Written by Khizr Khan

Our Founding Fathers created the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights as a blueprint for American...

5th - 8th

Two Miserable Presidents Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You about the Civil War

Written by Steve Sheinkin and Illustrated by Tim Robinson

That Congressman, Preston Brooks, was ready to attack Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts over...

4th - 8th

Which Way to the Wild West? Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You about Westward Expansion

Written by Steve Sheinkin and Illustrated by Tim Robinson

With a storyteller's voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting...

5th - 9th

Hey Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band

Written by Anne F. Rockwell and Illustrated by Colin Bootman

What happened when a former slave took beat-up old instruments and gave them to a bunch of orphans...

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Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service

Written by Annette Bay Pimentel and Illustrated by Rich Lo

The true story of a Chinese American mountain man who fed thirty people for ten days in the...

1st - 4th

Now or Never!—54th Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery

Written by Ray Anthony Shepard

Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history...

5th - 12th

Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America

Written by Tonya Bolden

Sarah Rector was once famously hailed as “the richest black girl in America.” Set against the...

3rd - 7th

Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty

Written by Michael Burgan

At the turn of the 20th century, photographer Edward S. Curtis devoted his life to learning all he...

5th - 7th

Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness

Written by Donna Janell Bowmen and Illustrated by Daniel Minter

William "Doc" Key had a special way with animals. Growing up an enslaved child in Tennessee, Doc was...

3rd - 6th

This Land is Our Land: A History of American Immigration

Written by Linda Barrett Osborne

American attitudes toward immigrants are paradoxical. On the one hand, we see our country as a haven...

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Lincoln: A Photobiography

Written by Russell Freedman

A biography of Abraham Lincoln told in illustrations and photographs. The book spans Lincoln’s life...