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A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis

10 best books like A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis (Matt de la Pena): The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps, Can We Save the Tiger?, Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix, Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson, Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story, Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map, These Hands, Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People, The House Baba Built: An Artist's Childhood in China

The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps
AuthorJeanette Winter
ISBN0375867740
Acclaimed picture book biographer Jeanette Winter has found her perfect subject: Jane Goodall, the great observer of chimpanzees. Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania, invited by brilliant scientist Louis...
Can We Save the Tiger?
AuthorMartin Jenkins
ISBN0763649090
The team behind the award-winning APE returns with an inspiring look at a range of endangered species sure to engage every child who loves animals.

Tigers are pretty special — and so are ground iguanas and partula snails and even white-rumped vultures. But these and many other animals are...
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
AuthorAndrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN0316070165
It was February 1, 1960.
They didn't need menus. Their order was simple.
A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side.

This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest...
Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
AuthorGary Golio
ISBN0618852794
Jimi Hendrix was many things: a superstar, a rebel, a hero, an innovator. But first, he was a boy named Jimmy who loved to draw and paint and listen to records. A boy who played air guitar with a broomstick and longed for a real guitar of his own. A boy who asked himself a question: Could someone paint pictures...
Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
AuthorSharon Robinson
ISBN0545052513
Sharon Robinson, the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, has crafted a hearwarming, true story about growing up with her father.

When Jackie Robinson retires from baseball and moves his family to Connecticut, the beautiful lake on their property is the center of everyone's fun....
Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story
AuthorThomas F. Yezerski
ISBN0374349134
The 20,000 acres of wetlands in New Jersey now known as the Meadowlands were once home to hundreds of species of plants and animals. But in the four hundred years since European explorers first arrived in the Meadowlands, people have dammed up, drained, built over, and polluted this formerly vibrant...
Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map
AuthorSue Macy
ISBN0823421635
Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball, and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart-pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team...
These Hands
AuthorMargaret H. Mason
ISBN0547215665
Joseph’s grandpa could do almost anything with his hands. He could play the piano, throw a curveball, and tie a triple bowline knot in three seconds flat. But in the 1950s and 60s, he could not bake bread at the Wonder Bread factory. Factory bosses said white people would not want to eat bread touched...
Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People
AuthorMonica Brown
Once there was a little boy named Neftalí who loved wild things wildly and quiet things quietly. From the moment he could talk, he surrounded himself with words. Neftalí discovered the magic between the pages of books. When he was sixteen, he began publishing his poems as Pablo Neruda.

Pablo...
The House Baba Built: An Artist's Childhood in China
AuthorEd Young
ISBN0316076287
I knew nothing could happen to us within those walls, in the house Baba built.

In Ed Young's childhood home in Shanghai, all was not as it seemed: a rocking chair became a horse; a roof became a roller rink; an empty swimming pool became a place for riding scooters and bikes. The house his father...
Orani: My Father's Village
AuthorClaire A. Nivola
ISBN0374356572
One of School Library Journal’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2011

One of Horn Book’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2011



As a child, Claire Nivola loved summers in Orani, the village where her father grew up and where her many aunts, uncles, and 50 cousins still lived. She ran freely...
For the Love of Music: The Remarkable Story of Maria Anna Mozart
AuthorElizabeth Rusch
ISBN1582463263
By the time she was 12, she was considered one of the finest pianists in Europe, but today few people know her name. Maria Mozart, like her famous brother Wolfgang, was a musical prodigy. The talented siblings toured Europe, playing before kings and empresses, were showered with gifts and favors, and...
Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
AuthorJabari Asim
ISBN0316086576
Booker dreamed
of making friends with words,
setting free the secrets
that lived in books.

Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton...
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
AuthorLaban Carrick Hill
Dave was an extraordinary artist, poet, and potter living in South Carolina in the 1800s. He combined his superb artistry with deeply observant poetry, carved onto his pots, transcending the limitations he faced as a slave. In this inspiring and lyrical portrayal, National Book Award nominee Laban...
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours
AuthorDuncan Tonatiuh
ISBN0810997312
This charming book introduces one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, Diego Rivera, to young readers. It tells the story of Diego as a young, mischievous boy who demonstrated a clear passion for art and then went on to become one of the most famous painters in the world. 

Duncan...
Henry Aaron's Dream
AuthorMatt Tavares
ISBN0763632244
Matt Tavares hits one out of the park with this powerful tale of a kid from the segregated south who would become baseball’s home-run king.

Before he was Hammerin’ Hank, Henry Aaron was a young boy grow ing up in Mobile, Alabama, with what seemed like a foolhardy dream: to be a big-league baseball...
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN0375836187
The award-winning author of Ben Franklin’s Almanac and Our Eleanor has created an enthralling joint biography of our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, and his complex wife—a scrapbook history that uses photographs, letters, engravings, and even cartoons, along with a fascinating text,...
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
AuthorVaunda Micheaux Nelson
ISBN0822567644
Sitting tall in the saddle, with a wide-brimmed black hat and twin Colt pistols on his belt, Bass Reeves seemed bigger than life. Outlaws feared him.

As a deputy U.S. Marshal and former slave who escaped to freedom in the Indian Territories, Bass was cunning and fearless. When a lawbreaker heard...
Tillie the Terrible Swede: How One Woman, a Sewing Needle, and a Bicycle Changed History
AuthorSue Stauffacher
ISBN0375944427
When Tillie Anderson came to America, all she had was a needle. So she got herself a job in a tailor shop and waited for a dream to find her. One day, a man sped by on a bicycle. She was told "bicycles aren't for ladies," but from then on, Tillie dreamed of riding—not graceful figure eights, but speedy, scorching,...
Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
AuthorRobert Burleigh
ISBN1416967338
“Hearts will be racing.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A work to inspire further learning.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Vivid.” —The Horn Book

A picture book biography of the first woman in flight—Amelia Earhart—by NCTE Orbis Pictus Award-winner...
Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero
AuthorMarissa Moss
ISBN0810997355
This fast-paced, high-energy picture book tells the true story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who at age nineteen disguised herself as a man in order to fight in the Civil War. She took the name Frank Thompson and joined a Michigan army regiment to battle the Confederacy. Sarah excelled as a soldier and nurse...
Just a Second
AuthorSteve Jenkins
ISBN0618708960
What can happen in just a second,
a minute, or an hour? How can we measure time?
The flap of a vulture’s wing.
A crocodile’s heartbeat.
The weight of a baby blue whale.
The life of a mayfly.
These increments of time may sound a bit strange, but they are all fascinating ways...
All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel
AuthorDan Yaccarino
ISBN0375966420
“This immigration story is universal.” —School Library Journal, Starred
 
Dan Yaccarino’s great-grandfather arrived at Ellis Island with a small shovel and his parents’ good advice: “Work hard, but remember to enjoy life, and never forget your family.” With simple text...
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
AuthorPam Muñoz Ryan
ISBN0439269679
Marian Anderson is best known for her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939, which drew an integrated crowd of 75,000 people in pre-Civil Rights America. While this momentous event showcased the uniqueness of her voice, the strength of her character, and the struggles of the times in which...
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