10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War
10 best books like 10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War (Philip Caputo): Loon: A Marine Story, The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won, Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary, The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA, Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference, Cleopatra Rules!: The Amazing Life of the Original Teen Queen, Henry and the Cannons: An Extraordinary True Story of the American Revolution, Stronger Than Steel: Spider Silk DNA and the Quest for Better Bulletproof Vests, Sutures, and Parachute Rope, Children of the Great Depression, Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
| Author | Jack McLean |
| ISBN | 0345510151 |
My daughter Anna and author Jack McLean had something in common. They each decided that there was something important s/he wanted to do before beginning college. Anna wanted to go to Cambodia and work in an orphanage. Jack wanted to join the Marines and serve in Vietnam. Each one took the time to pursue...
The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won
| Author | Stephen E. Ambrose |
| ISBN | 0689843615 |
Stephen E. Ambrose, one of the finest historians of our time, has written an extraordinary chronicle of World War II for young readers. From Japanese warplanes soaring over Pearl Harbor, dropping devastation from the sky, to the against-all-odds Allied victory at Midway, to the Battle of the Bulge...
| Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
| ISBN | 0670011894 |
An inspiring look at the fight for the vote, by an award-winning author Only 44 years ago in the U.S., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a fight to win blacks the right to vote. Ground zero for the movement became Selma, Alabama.
Award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge leads you straight...
The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA
| Author | Mark Schultz |
| ISBN | 0809089386 |
Let's face it: From adenines to zygotes, from cytokinesis to parthenogenesis, even the basics of genetics can sound utterly alien. So who better than an alien to explain it all? Enter Bloort 183, a scientist from an asexual alien race threatened by disease, who's been charged with researching the fundamentals...
| Author | Joanne Oppenheim |
| ISBN | 0439569923 |
A chronicle of the incredible correspondence between California librarian Clara Breed and young Japanese American internees during World War II.
In the early 1940s, Clara Breed was the children's librarian at the San Diego Public Library. But she was also friend to dozens of Japanese American...
| Author | Vicky Alvear Shecter |
| ISBN | 1590787188 |
Good. Evil. Dangerous. Glamorous. Will the real Cleopatra please stand up? Almost everything we know about the last queen of Egypt came from her enemies—the Romans. Now it's time to meet the "real" Cleopatra, a ruler more complex, brilliant, and powerful than we ever knew. Cleopatra didn't just...
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 1596432667 |
Before Washington crossed the Delaware, Henry Knox crossed Massachusetts in winter—with 59 cannons in tow.
In 1775 in the dead of winter, a bookseller named Henry Knox dragged 59 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston—225 miles of lakes, forest, mountains, and few roads. It was a feat...
| Author | Bridget Heos |
| ISBN | 0547681267 |
In The Spider Silk Scientists, readers enter Randy Lewis' lab where they come face to face with golden orb weaver spiders, as their silk is combined with goat's milk to weave a nearly indestructible fiber.
Learn how this amazing material can be used to repair or replace...
| Author | Russell Freedman |
| ISBN | 0618446303 |
As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, children whose...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0060731591 |
Vietnam.
A young American soldier waits for his enemy, rifle in hand, finger on the trigger. He is afraid to move and yet afraid not to move. Gunshots crackle in the still air. The soldier fires blindly into the distant trees at an unseen enemy. He crouches and waits -- heart pounding, tense and...
| Author | Sarah O'Leary Burningham |
| ISBN | 0811864367 |
Cute and surprisingly informative. I picked up this ARC because we booked Sarah to come into Changing Hands in June. What did a 25 year old mother of two learn from reading Boyology? Quite a bit actually. More about the behavior of my younger siblings, but it also made me flash back to those awkward tween...
The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah
| Author | Nora Raleigh Baskin |
| ISBN | 1416935584 |
I put my fingers up to my throat and touched the pointy Star of David, my grandmother's necklace, a delicate chain made up of countless tiny links. If I wear this, will people think I am Jewish?
Is that what I want to be?
Seventh-grader Caroline Weeks has a Jewish mom and a non-Jewish dad. When Caroline's...
| Author | Loree Griffin Burns |
| ISBN | 0618581316 |
Aided by an army of beachcombers, oceanographer Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer tracks trash in the name of science. From sneakers to hockey gloves, Curt monitors the watery fate of human-made cargo that has spilled into the ocean. The information he collects is much more than casual news; it is important scientific...
Black and white : the confrontation of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor
| Author | Larry Dane Brimner |
| ISBN | 1590787668 |
In the 1950s and early 60s, Birmingham, Alabama, became known as Bombingham. At the center of this violent time in the fight for civil rights, and standing at opposite ends, were Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene Bull Connor. From his pulpit, Shuttlesworth agitated for racial equality, while...
| Author | Suzanne Tripp Jurmain |
| ISBN | 0618473025 |
They threw rocks and rotten eggs at the school windows. Villagers refused to sell Miss Crandall groceries or let her students attend the town church. Mysteriously, her schoolhouse was set on fire—by whom and how remains a mystery. The town authorities dragged her to jail and put her on trial for breaking...
| Author | Ann Bausum |
| ISBN | 1426303327 |
With painstaking research, an unerring eye for just the right illustration, and her unique narrative style, award-winning author Ann Bausum makes the history of immigration in America come alive for young people. The story of America has always been shaped by people from all corners of the Earth who...
Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth
| Author | James Cross Giblin |
| ISBN | 0618096426 |
Edwin Booth and his younger brother John Wilkes Booth were, in many ways, two of a kind. They were among America’s finest actors, having inherited their father’s commanding stage presence along with his penchant for alcohol and impulsive behavior. In other respects, the two brothers were very...
At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends
| Author | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| ISBN | 0830640037 |
I remember Ike but that seems strange to say in a way, because for so many people to whom I speak, he is an historical figure, someone distant and dusty, of another time. And so he is, yet I remember posters above the seats of the bus on which I traveled to school in NYC that were full head shots of the man running...
My American Revolution: A Modern Expedition Through History's Forgotten Battlegrounds
| Author | Robert Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0374217459 |
Americans tend to think of the Revolution as a Massachusetts-based event orchestrated by Virginians, but in fact the war took place mostly in the Middle Colonies—in New York and New Jersey and the parts of Pennsylvania that on a clear day you can almost see from the Empire State Building. In My American...
| Author | Albert Marrin |
| ISBN | 0375866736 |
Oil is not pretty, but it is a resource that drives the modern world. It has made fortunes for the lucky few and provided jobs for millions of ordinary folks.
Thick and slippery, crude oil has an evil smell. Yet without it, life as we live it today would be impossible. Oil fuels our engines, heats...
Race: A History Beyond Black and White
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 0689865546 |
Race. You know it at a glance: he's black; she's white. They're Asian; we're Latino.
Racism. I'm better; she's worse. Those people do those kinds of things.
We all know it's wrong to make these judgments, but they come faster than thought.
Why? Where did those feelings come...
Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War
| Author | Al Santoli |
| ISBN | 0345322797 |
A powerfully unapologetic book. It completely destroyed the Hollywood and Media fantasy notion of what war is. The stories by these Vietnam veterans are raw and make no attempt to come off as politically correct. They talk about their experiences in their own words, which come off a little rough in writing...
A Girl Named Faithful Plum: A True Story of a Dancer from China and How She Achieved Her Dream
In 1977, when Zhongmei Lei was eleven years old, she learned that the prestigious Beijing Dance Academy was having open auditions. She'd already taken dance lessons, but everyone said a poor country girl would never get into the academy, especially without any connections in the Communist Party of...
