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America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
Ariel Aberg-Riger - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover
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A critical, unflinching cultural history and fierce beacon of hope for a better future, America Redux is a necessary and galvanizing read. What are the stories we tell ourselves about America? How do they shape our sense of history, cloud our perceptions, inspire us? America Redux explores... |
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Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself
Monica Edinger - Zest Books ™
Format: Paperback
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Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is perhaps the most well known of the autobiographies that exist. Using this narrative as a primary... |
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Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
Thien Pham - First Second
Format: Hardcover
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A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in America, perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and The Best We Could Do!. Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness... |
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From Here
Luma Mufleh - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover
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In her coming-of-age memoir, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to reconcile her identity as a gay Muslim woman and a proud Arab-turned-American refugee.With no word for "gay" in Arabic, Luma may not have known what to call the feelings she had growing... |
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Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
DAWUD ANYABWILE - Norton Young Readers
Format: Book
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A groundbreaking and timely graphic memoir from one of the most iconic figures in American sports -- and a tribute to his fight for civil rights.On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John... |
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Abuela, Don't Forget Me
REX OGLE - Norton Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Rex Ogle's companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother's legacy.In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse,... |
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American Murderer
Jarrow, Gail
Format: Book
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Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American... |
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A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome
Ariel Henley
Format: Hardcover
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At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome -- a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive it.Growing up, Ariel and her sister endured numerous appearance-altering procedures.... |
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Unequal: A Story of America
Michael Eric Dyson - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned, bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson makes his YA debut, with critically acclaimed author Marc Favreau, to deliver an urgent, enlightening account of racial inequality in America.The true story of racial inequality - and resistance to it - is the prologue to our present. You can see it in where... |
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Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield
Gail Jarrow - Calkins Creek
Format: Hardcover
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James Abram Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was assassinated when he was shot by Charles Guiteau in July 1881, less than four months after he was elected president. But Garfield didn't actually die until 80 days later. In this page-turner, award-winning author Gail... |
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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Brandy Colbert - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover
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A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre.In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train... |
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The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life
Amy Butler Greenfield - Random House Studio
Format: Hardcover
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Elizebeth Smith Friedman had a rare talent for spotting patterns and solving puzzles. These skills led her to become one of the top cryptanalysts in America during both World War I and World War II. She originally came to code breaking through her love for Shakespeare when she was hired... |
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The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh
Candace Fleming
Format: Hardcover
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From a true master of YA nonfiction, author of the acclaimed THE FAMILY ROMANOV, discover the dark side of Charles Lindbergh in a riveting biography of one of America's most celebrated heroes, and most complicated, troubled men. First human to cross the Atlantic via airplane; one of the first... |
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The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival
Amra Sabic-El-Rayess - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover
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It is 1992 and Bihac, Amra's hometown, is a multicultural city with Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. But when tensions escalate, the Serbs turn on their Bosnian neighbors. The Serbs control the army, and now they have peaceful Bihac surrounded. Soon Amra and her family are dealing with starvation... |
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Free Lunch
Rex Ogle - Norton Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true.Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school... |
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The Great Nijinsky: God of Dance
Lynn Curlee - Charlesbridge Teen
Format: Hardcover
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Dance prodigy, sex symbol, gay pioneer, cultural icon--Vaslav Nijinsky rose to fame as the star of the Ballets Russes in Paris before mental illness stole his career and the last thirty years of his life. A tragic story of a great genius, this compelling work of narrative nonfiction chronicles... |
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A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust
Albert Marrin - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From National Book Award Finalist Albert Marrin comes the moving story of Janusz Korczak, the heroic Polish Jewish doctor who devoted his life to children, perishing with them in the Holocaust.Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The Dr. Spock of his day, he established... |
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A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
ELIZABETH WEIN - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II - from Elizabeth Wein, award-winning author of Code Name VerityIn the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat.... |
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The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
Don Brown - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Sibert Honor Medalist · New York Public Library Best Of 2018 · The Horn Books Fanfare 2018 list · Kirkus Best Books of 2018 · YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction WinnerIn the tradition of two-time Sibert honor winner Don Browns critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great... |
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The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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In this adaptation for middle graders based on her bestselling adult memoir, My Beloved World, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor's extraordinary life inspires. Her achievement serves as a true testament to the fact that no matter the obstacles, dreams can come true.... |
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Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
Elizabeth Partridge - Viking
Format: Print book
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"An exploration of the Vietnam War from many different perspectives including an American soldiers, a nurse, and a Vietnamese refugee."--Provided by publisher. |
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The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
John Hendrix - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover
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Interweaving handwritten text and art in his signature style, John Hendrix tells the fascinating story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the oppression of the German people during World War II. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was shocked to watch the German... |
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Hey, Kiddo
Jarrett J. Krosoczka - Graphix
Format: Hardcover
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In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where... |
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Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
Deborah Heiligman - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Printz Honor Book * YALSA Nonfiction Award Winner * Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner * SCBWI Golden Kite Winner * Cybils Senior High Nonfiction Award WinnerFrom the author of National Book Award finalist Charles and Emma comes an incredible story of brotherly love.The deep... |
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#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women
Mary Beth Leatherdale - Annick Press
Format: Hardcover
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Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #NotYourPrincess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews,... |
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The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
DASHKA SLATER - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter.One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they... |
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March: Book Three
Nate Powell - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback
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2016 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature2017 Printz Award Winner2017 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner2017 Sibert Medal Winner2017 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner2017 Walter Award Winner"One of the Best Books of 2016" - Publishers WeeklyWelcome... |
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Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History
Karen Blumenthal - Square Fish
Format: Print book
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"For young people who are just beginning to be interested in politics, or any of us who want a better understanding of Hillary Clinton, this book is an excellent place to start." -- Bob Schieffer, CBS NewsAs a young girl, Hillary Diane Rodham's parents told her she could... |
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Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
Turner, Pamela S.; Hinds, Gareth
Format: electronic resource
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Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga.
This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history.
When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with... |
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This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration
Linda Barrett Osborne - Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2016.
Format: Print book
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American attitudes toward immigrants are paradoxical. On the one hand, we see our country as a haven for the poor and oppressed; anyone, no matter his or her background, can find freedom here and achieve the "American Dream." On the other hand, depending on prevailing economic... |
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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
M.T. Anderson - Candlewick Press (MA)
Format: Print book
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National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest... |
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Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
Margarita Engle - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: eBook
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In this poetic memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War.Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life... |
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First Flight Around the World
Grove, Tim; National Air and Space Museum
Format: electronic resource
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A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist
In 1924 the U.S. Army sent eight young men on a bold attempt to be the first to circumnavigate the globe by flight. Men from five other countries—Great Britain, France, Portugal, Italy,... |
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This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon
Nancy Plain - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Print book
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Birds were "the objects of my greatest delight," wrote John James Audubon (1785-1851) , founder of modern ornithology and one of the world's greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of America depicts almost five hundred North American bird species, each image - lifelike... |
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Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek
Maya van Wagenen - Dutton Books for Young Readers; First Edition
Format: Hardcover
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2015 YALSA Award for Excellence in NonfictionNew York Times Bestseller A breakout teen author explores... |
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Laughing at My Nightmare
Shane Burcaw - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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With acerbic wit and a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaws Laughing at My Nightmare describes the challenges he faces as a twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to having a girlfriend and everything in between, Shane handles his situation with humor and a "you-only-live-once"... |
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
Candace Fleming - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters,... |
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Imprisoned
Martin W. Sandler - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Paperback
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While Americans fought for freedom and democracy abroad, fear and suspicion towards Japanese Americans swept the country after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Culling information from extensive, previously unpublished interviews and oral histories with Japanese American survivors... |
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Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Steve Sheinkin - Flash Point
Format: Hardcover
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In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked... |
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Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different
Karen Blumenthal - Square Fish; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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"Your time is limited. . . . have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."--Steve JobsFrom the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty, created Apple in his parents'... |
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We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
Cynthia Levinson - Peachtree Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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We ve Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alalama, between May 2 and May 11, 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi s and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. s precept to fill the jails, they... |
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The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
Steve Sheinkin - Flash Point; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing... |
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
Marc Aronson - Clarion Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious... |
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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
Karen Blumenthal - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off -- when a Constitutional Amendment banning the sale... |
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Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom
Sue Macy - National Geographic
Format: Print book
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NCSS - Notable Social Studies Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2012School Library Journal Best Books of 2011Finalist YALSA Excellence in Non Fiction for Young AdultsSLJ's 100 Magnificent Children's Books of 2011Amelia Bloomer ListTake a lively look at women's history from aboard... |
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They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
Susan Campbell Bartoletti - HMH Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Boys, let us get up a club. With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend’s mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan,... |
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Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
Deborah Heiligman - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching... |
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Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
Tanya Lee Stone - Candlewick; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for generations of women to follow.What does it take to be an astronaut Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape any checklist would include these. But when... |
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Phillip M Hoose - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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"When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You cant sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, This is not right." - Claudette ColvinOn March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat... |
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The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum
Candace Fleming - Brilliance Audio; Com/Cdr Un edition
Format: Audio CD
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Come one, come all to this larger-than-life biography of P. T. Barnum, showman and founder of the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Visit Barnum's American Museum, established in only four weeks! Meet Madame Josephine Clofulia, the Swiss Bearded Lady. Get to know Tom Thumb, a miniature man (only... |
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