Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship

10 best books like Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship (Russell Freedman): Blended, Towers Falling, A Long Way from Chicago, Bad Kitty School Daze, Turtle in Paradise, Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary, Bink & Gollie, Lifeboat 12, The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure, Puppy's Big Day

Blended

Author	Sharon M. Draper
ISBN	1442495006

"You’re so exotic!” “You look so unusual.” “But what are you really?”

Eleven-year-old Isabella is used to these kinds of comments - her father is black, her mother is white - but that doesn't mean she likes them. And now that her parents are divorced (and getting along WORSE than...

Towers Falling

Author	Jewell Parker Rhodes
ISBN	0316262226

From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks.

When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window,...

A Long Way from Chicago

Author	Richard Peck
ISBN	0142401102

"I don't think Grandma's a very good influence on us," Mary Alice said.

Every August, Joey Dowdel and his kid sister Mary Alice spend a week at their Granny's house.

She was so big and the town was so small. She was old too, or so we thought -- old as the hills. And tough! She was tough as an...

Bad Kitty School Daze

Author	Nick Bruel
ISBN	1596436700

Bad Kitty faces her toughest challenge yet . . .
 

Kitty and Puppy are out of control! They're screaming, fighting, hissing, and drooling all over the house, and all of the commotion is upsetting Baby. Time for school—obedience school, that is. Can Kitty learn to follow the rules and...

Turtle in Paradise

Author	Jennifer L. Holm
ISBN	0375836888

Life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple.

She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935 and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle's mama gets a job housekeeping...

Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary

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...

Bink & Gollie

Author

Kate DiCamillo

Meet Bink and Gollie, two precocious little girls — one tiny, one tall, and both utterly irrepressible. Setting out from their super-deluxe tree house and powered by plenty of peanut butter (for Bink) and pancakes (for Gollie), they share three comical adventures involving painfully bright socks,...

Lifeboat 12

Author

Susan Hood

In the tradition of The War That Saved My Life and Stella By Starlight, this poignant novel in verse based on true events tells the story of a boy’s harrowing experience on a lifeboat after surviving a torpedo attack during World War II.

With Nazis bombing London every night, it’s time for...

The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure

Author	Martin W. Sandler
ISBN	0763650803

Whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative in 1897. In that particular year, winter came early, bringing with it storms and ice packs that caught eight American whale ships and about three hundred sailors off guard. The ships were imprisoned in ice with no hope...

Puppy's Big Day

Author	Nick Bruel
ISBN	1596439769

Four Stars: Another funny installment in the Bad Kitty Series.

Kitty has gone nuclear! The family is shaking in fear because Kitty is on a inexplicable rampage. In order to protect Puppy, lovable Uncle Murray is called over to take Puppy out. Poor Uncle Murray is in for a few headaches as he heads...

The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life

Author	Kwame Alexander
ISBN	0544570979

You gotta know the rules to play the game. Ball is life. Take it to the hoop. Soar. What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our own rules of the game to help us get what we want, what we aspire to, what will enrich our lives? 

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