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Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention
Barb Rosenstock - Calkins Creek
Format: Hardcover
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A National Science Teachers Association, Best STEM BookEvery inventor has to start somewhere, and one of the greatest innovators in our history was no exception. Ben Franklin developed his first invention while doing what he loved best: swimming! Ben's Big Splash is the story of Franklin's... |
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Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad
Henry Cole - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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A young girls courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story.When a farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding in the barn, she is at once startled and frightened. But the strangers fearful eyes weigh upon her conscience, and she must make a difficult choice.Will she have the courage... |
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That Book Woman
Heather Henson - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Audiobook
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An exquisitely illustrated paean to everyone who struggles to learn how to read, and to everyone who wont give up on them.Cal is not the readin type. Living way high up in the Appalachian Mountains, hed rather help Pap plow or go out after wandering sheep than try some book learning. Nope.... |
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Let the Children March
Monica Clark-Robinson - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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I couldn't play on the same playground as the white kids. I couldn't go to their schools. I couldn't drink from their water fountains. There were so many things I couldn't do. In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered... |
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A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (English and Japanese Edition)
Amy Lee-Tai - Children's Book Press; Bilingual edition
Format: Hardcover
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Under the harsh summer sun, Mari s art class has begun. But it s hard to think of anything to draw in a place where nothing beautiful grows especially a place like Topaz, the internment camp where Mari s family and thousands of other Japanese Americans have been sent to live during World... |
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Boxes for Katje
Candace Fleming - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Simple seeds of friendship grow into something extraordinaryAfter World War II there is little left in Katje's town of Olst in Holland. Her family, like most Dutch families, must patch their old worn clothing and go without everyday things like soap and milk. Then one spring morning... |
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Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Ellen Levine - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that... |
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Ron's Big Mission
Rose Blue - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Nine-year-old Ron loves going to the Lake City Public Library to look through all the books on airplanes and flight. Today, Ron is ready to take out books by himself. But in the segregated world of South Carolina in the 1950s, Ron?s obtaining his own library card is not just a small... |
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When Washington Crossed the Delaware
Lynne V Cheney - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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"This is the story that I tell my grandchildren at Christmas. I hope that this book will bring the tradition of sharing history to families all across America." -- Lynne Cheney Christmas night, 1776, was a troubled time for our young country. In the six months since the Declaration... |
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Fiona's Lace
Patricia Polacco - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover
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An Irish family stays together with the help of Fionas talent for making one-of-a-kind lace in this heartwarming immigration story from the New York Times bestselling creator of The Keeping Quilt. Many years ago, times were hard in all of Ireland, so when passage to America becomes available,... |
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The School is Not White!
Doreen Rappaport - Hyperion Book CH
Format: Hardcover
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All they wanted was to learn. In Drew, Mississippi, in 1965, the schools were still segregated. The "all-black" schools were separate and unequal to "white" schools, lacking resources and support from the government. The Carters, a family of sharecroppers, had had enough.... |
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The Matchbox Diary
Paul Fleischman - Candlewick Press
Format: Hardcover
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Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman and Bagram Ibatoulline tell a breathtaking immigration tale with appeal across generations."Pick whatever you like most. Then I'll tell you its story." When a little girl visits her great-grandfather at his curio-filled home, she chooses... |
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Follow the Drinking Gourd
Jeanette Winter - Dragonfly Books
Format: Paperback
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Illus. in full color. "Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd (the Big Dipper) . A couple, their son, and two others... |
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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg's quest to correct history.Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance... |
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Gingerbread for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution
Mara Rockliff - Harcourt Brace and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Christopher Ludwick was a German-born American patriot with a big heart and a talent for baking. When cries of "Revolution!" began, Christopher was determined to help General George Washington and his hungry troops. Not with muskets or cannons, but with gingerbread! |
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Town Is by the Sea
Joanne Schwartz - Groundwood Books
Format: Hardcover
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A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather's grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea. Stunning illustrations by Sydney Smith, the award-winning illustrator... |
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Jars of hope : how one woman helped save 2,500 children during the Holocaust
Jennifer Roy - Capstone Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Amid the horrors of World War II, Irena Sendler was an unlikely and unsung hero. While many people lived in fear of the Nazis, Irena defied them, even though it could have meant her life. This gripping true story of a woman who took it upon herself to help save 2,500 children from the Warsaw... |
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Catching The Moon
Myla Goldberg - Arthur A. Levine Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of THE BEE SEASON, a memorable first book for children.When the old woman began to fish at night under the watching moon, the fishermen shook their heads - she'd never catch anything that way. But the old fisherwoman was wilier than they knew. The waves had risen... |
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Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
Melissa Sweet - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone's a New Yorker on Thanksgiving Day, when young and old rise early to see what giant new balloons will fill the skies for Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Who first invented these "upside-down puppets"? Meet Tony Sarg, puppeteer extraordinaire! In brilliant collage illustrations,... |
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Strong as Sandow: How Eugen Sandow Became the Strongest Man on Earth
Don Tate - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover
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Little Friedrich Mller was a puny weakling who longed to be athletic and strong like the ancient Roman gladiators. He exercised and exercised. But he to no avail. As a young man, he found himself under the tutelage of a professional body builder. Friedrich worked and worked. He changed... |
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The Circus Ship
Chris Van Dusen - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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With stunning artwork and a rhyming text, the illustrator of the Mercy Watson books tells a tale of human-animal connection full of humor and heart.When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are left on their own to swim the chilly waters. Staggering onto a nearby... |
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Island: A Story of the Galpagos
Jason Chin - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Charles Darwin first visited the Galpagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How did they come to inhabit the island How long will they remain Thoroughly researched and filled with intricate... |
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Oskar and the Eight Blessings
Tanya Simon - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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A refugee seeking sanctuary from the horrors of Kristallnacht, Oskar arrives by ship in New York City with only a photograph and an address for an aunt he has never met. It is both the seventh day of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve, 1938. As Oskar walks the length of Manhattan, from the Battery... |
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This Is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration
Jacqueline Woodson - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover
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Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's LiteratureThe story of one family's journey north during the Great Migration starts with a little girl in South Carolina who finds a rope under a tree one summer. She has no idea the rope will become part of her family's... |
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Brick by Brick
Charles R. Jr. Smith - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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Coretta Scott King Award-winners Charles R. Smith Jr. and Floyd Cooper deliver the compelling story behind the building of the White House, a powerful part of history rarely taught. The home of our president was built by many hands, several of them slaves', who undertook this amazing... |
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Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
Roxane Orgill - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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What happens when you invite as many jazz musicians as you can to pose for a photo in 1950s Harlem? Playful verse and glorious artwork capture an iconic moment for American jazz.When Esquire magazine planned an issue to salute the American jazz scene in 1958, graphic designer Art Kane... |
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The Crossing
Donna Jo Napoli - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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This young, lyrical picture book reveals the adventure and natural wonders that Lewis & Clark encountered on their Western expedition in the early 1800s. Told from the point of view of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the baby on Sacagawea's back, this story offers a fresh perspective of a young... |
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Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
Donna Jo Napoli - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Through artful prose and beautiful illustrations, Donna Jo Napoli and Kadir Nelson tell the true story of Wangari Muta Maathai, known as Mama Miti, who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization that has empowered many people to mobilize and combat deforestation,... |
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Dare the Wind: The Record-breaking Voyage of Eleanor Prentiss and the Flying Cloud
Tracey E Fern - Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Ellen Prentiss's papa said she was born with saltwater in her veins, so he gave her sailing lessons and taught her how to navigate. As soon as she met a man who loved sailing like she did, she married him. When her husband was given command of a clipper ship custom-made to travel quickly,... |
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I Will Come Back for You: A Family in Hiding During World War II
Marisabina Russo - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Print book
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What was it like to grow up Jewish in Italy during World War II? Sit with a little girl as her grandmother tells the story of her childhood in Rome, of being separated from her father, and of going into hiding in the mountains. Based on the experiences of the author's own family, this... |
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