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America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell

10 best books like America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell (Don Brown): The Unteachables, The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps, The Day You Begin, Can We Save the Tiger?, Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom, Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team, The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks, Ada Twist, Scientist

The Unteachables
AuthorGordon Korman
ISBN0062563912
What happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher?

The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger management issues; Parker, who can’t read; Kiana, who doesn’t even belong in the class—or...
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...
The Day You Begin
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0399246533
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpre Illustrator Award winner Rafael Lopez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.

There will be times when you walk into a room
and...
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...
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
AuthorKadir Nelson
ISBN0061730742
Kadir Nelson's Heart and Soul is the winner of numerous awards, including the 2012 Coretta Scott King Author Award and Illustrator Honor, and the recipient of five starred reviews.

The story of America and African Americans is a story of hope and inspiration and unwavering courage. This is...
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
AuthorShane W. Evans
ISBN1596435380
A family silently crawls along the ground. They run barefoot through unlit woods, sleep beneath bushes, take shelter in a kind stranger's home. Where are they heading? They are heading for Freedom by way of the Underground Railroad.

"A stellar introduction to the Underground Railroad, narrated...
Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team
AuthorAudrey Vernick
ISBN0547385579
The Acerra family had sixteen children, including twelve ball-playing boys. It was the
1930s, and many families had lots of kids. But only one had enough to field a baseball
team . . . with three on the bench! The Acerras were the longest-playing all-brother
team in baseball history. They...
The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks
AuthorBarb Rosenstock
ISBN0803737106
Caldecott medalist Mordicai Gerstein captures the majestic redwoods of Yosemite in this little-known but important story from our nation's history. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt joined naturalist John Muir on a trip to Yosemite. Camping by themselves in the uncharted woods, the two men...
Ada Twist, Scientist
AuthorAndrea Beaty
ISBN1419721372
Scientist Ada has a boundless imagination and has always been hopelessly curious. Why are there pointy things stuck to a rose? Why are there hairs growing inside your nose? When her house fills with a horrific, toe-curling smell, Ada knows it’s up to her to find the source. What would you do with a problem...
Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the True Story of an American Feud
AuthorSuzanne Tripp Jurmain
ISBN0525479031
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were good friends with very different personalities. But their differing views on how to run the newly created United States turned them into the worst of friends. They each became leaders of opposing political parties, and their rivalry followed them to the White House....
Freedom in Congo Square
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
ISBN1499801033
Chosen as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2016, this poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known piece of African American history captures a human’s capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly freedom’s heart.

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