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Thrilling thieves: liars, cheats, and cons who changed history (Changed History Series)
By Brianna DuMont. 2018
Profiles of twelve troublemakers from history, including Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener who worked for the tea-loving British government. His…
mission: to steal tea seeds from China. For grades 5-8. 2018La casa de los veinte mil libros
By Sasha Abramsky. 2016
A journalist recreates the singular world of his grandparents' house in London. Chimen and Miriam Abramsky amassed an extensive collection…
of socialist literature and Jewish history, and they frequently held large gatherings to bring together influential thinkers, including Eric Hobsbawm and Isaiah Berlin. Spanish language. 2016The Hamilton affair: a novel
By Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth Cobbs. 2016
Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler are firebrands in different parts of the world until they are brought together during the…
American Revolution. They both work for freedom and deeply love one another, despite challenges from both outside and inside their marriage. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2016Cuentos de buenas noches para niñas rebeldes: 100 historias de mujeres extraordinarias
By Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo, Favilli, Cavallo. 2017
Las vidas de 100 mujeres distinguidas de alrededor del mundo--artistas, científicas, inventoras, exploradoras, escritoras, bailarinas, activistas y líderes--contaron como cuentos…
de hadas cortos. Incluye Alicia Alonso, Cora Coralina, Eufrosina Cruz, Evita Perón, Helen Keller, Isabel Allende, y Las Hermanas Mirabal. Traducido del italiano. Para grados 3-6 y lectores mayoresHeart and soul: the story of America and African Americans
By Kadir Nelson. 2011
Presents an introduction to African American history beginning with Revolutionary-era slavery. Topics include the jazz boom in Harlem and the…
civil rights activism of a generation inspired by Dr. King, Malcolm X, and other leaders. Coretta Scott King Award. For grades 4-7. 2011My name is Truth: the life of Sojourner Truth
By Ann Turner, Ann Warren Turner, James Ransome. 2015
The book itch: freedom, truth & Harlem's greatest bookstore (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, R. Gregory Christie. 2015
A fictional account of the National Memorial African Bookstore, which was founded by Louis Michaux in the 1930s. While working…
in his family's landmark Harlem bookstore, young Louis Michaux Jr. learns the power of books and meets famous men like Malcolm X. For grades K-3. 2015Horrors of History: Books 1-4 (Horrors of History)
By T. Neill Anderson. 2013
Four stories featuring historical disasters. In City of the Dead, the fate of the residents of Galveston, Texas hangs in…
the balance as floodwaters rise during the great hurricane in 1900. Also includes Ocean of Fire, People of the Plague, and Massacre of the Miners. For grades 5-8. 2015A home for Mr. Emerson
By Barbara Kerley, Edwin Fotheringham. 2014
Biography of the New England essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Recounts his youth as a city boy who…
longed for the open fields and deep woods of the country, and his later life as a man who treasured books, ideas, family, and community. For grades 2-4 and older readers. 2014Two slave rebellions at sea: "The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass and "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville
By George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick. 2000
Two short stories about slave mutinies on the high seas: Frederick Douglass's 1853 "The Heroic Slave" and Herman Melville's 1855…
"Benito Cereno." Includes excerpts from A Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the 1817 memoir of Amasa Delano--the real-life captain in Melville's tale. Some violence. 2000Revolutionary
By Alex Myers. 2014
In the latter days of the American Revolution, former indentured servant Deborah Samson runs away from home. Seeing no future…
for herself as a single woman, she disguises herself as a man and joins the army. She must deal with her dual identities. Violence. 2014Nostalgia: A Novel
By Dennis McFarland. 2013
1864. Deserted by his comrades, Union soldier Summerfield Hayes struggles to survive in the woods after being wounded in battle.…
His thoughts turn to his pre-enlistment life with his sister in Brooklyn. Once rescued, he is sent to a hospital in Washington, where Walt Whitman befriends him. Violence. 2013How to get rich on a Texas cattle drive: In Which I Tell the Honest Truth About Rampaging Rustlers, Stampeding Steers and Other Fateful Hazards on the Wild Chisolm Trail (How to Get Rich)
By Tod Olson, Gregory Proch, Scott Allred. 2010
Alleged memoir of "Little John" Larken, who headed to Texas in 1877 to work on a ranch, became a trail…
boss, and later performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Describes his adventures with cowhands, cattle rustlers, cattle barons, and Indians--and his experiences with hazardous stampedes. For grades 3-6. 2010Discusses the early battles of the Revolutionary War, beginning with the appointment of George Washington as commander of the newly…
formed Continental army. Examines the British army's advantages during the invasion of New York City and asserts that Washington's tactics revived the spirit of the revolution. For grades 4-7. 2010A spotlight for Harry (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))
By Eric A. Kimmel, Jim Madsen. 2009
Story based on childhood events of Harry Houdini (1874-1926), who became a famous magician and escape artist. Describes Harry and…
his brother Dash learning to walk a tightrope after going to the circus with their family for the first time. For grades 2-4. 2009A feast of freedom: tasty tidbits from the City Tavern
By Walter Staib, Jennifer Fox, Fernando Juarez. 2010
A good night for freedom
By Barbara Olenyik Morrow, Leonard Jenkins. 2004
Hallie discovers two runaway slaves hiding in Levi Coffin's house and must choose between protecting herself and her family or…
helping the two strangers she's only just met. This book was inspired by the true account of two runaway slave sisters who were hidden by Underground Railroad leader Levi Coffin in his home in Indiana in the 1830s. For grades K-3The doctor with an eye for eyes: the story of Dr. Patricia Bath (Amazing Scientists #2)
By Julia Finley Mosca. 2017
As a girl coming of age during the Civil Rights Movement, Patricia Bath made it her mission to become a…
doctor. When obstacles like racism, poverty, and sexism threatened this goal, she persevered--brightening the world with a game-changing treatment for blindness! For grades K-3The girl who thought in pictures: the story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists #1)
By Daniel Rieley, Julia Finley Mosca. 2017
Meet Dr. Temple Grandin--one of the world's quirkiest science heroes! When young Temple was diagnosed with autism, no one expected…
her to talk, let alone become one of the most powerful voices in modern science. Yet, the determined visual thinker did just that. Her unique mind allowed her to connect with animals in a special way, helping her invent groundbreaking improvements for farms around the globe! For grades K-3Exiled!: from tragedy to triumph on the Missouri frontier
By Louise A. Jackson. 2016
1837. Due to a traumatic incident, her parents decide that Ruthy Donovan has to be sent away for a while.…
They send her to live with cousin Nathan in Southwest Missouri. She goes with a family she doesn t know, by wagon train, to live with a cousin she s never met. Along the way she learns how to become independent and self-sufficient. For grades 6-9