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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

10 best books like An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Jim Murphy): Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot, Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America, Show Way, The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, Journey Outside, Carver: A Life in Poems, Whittington

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
AuthorSusan Campbell Bartoletti
ISBN0439353793
"I begin with the young. We older ones are used up . . . But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world." --Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg 1933

By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler...
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
AuthorSy Montgomery
ISBN0618494170
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds—the largest and most unusual parrots on earth—have suffered devastating population loss.

Now, on an island refuge with...
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
AuthorJoyce Sidman
ISBN0547152280
A 2011 Newbery Honor Book


Come feel the cool and shadowed breeze,
come smell your way among the trees,
come touch rough bark and leathered leaves:
Welcome to the night.

Welcome to the night, where mice stir and furry moths flutter. Where snails spiral into shells...
Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America
AuthorJim Murphy
ISBN0590673092
This book is targeted at the YA market, so it isn't a super in depth history. Actually, that's one of the big pluses for me. Murphy seems to have covered everything I want to know & he did in a way that made me feel it. He included a lot of personal accounts & wrapped up with the effects that this storm...
Show Way
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0399237496
Soonie's great-grandma was just seven years old when she was sold to a big plantation without her ma and pa, and with only some fabric and needles to call her own. She pieced together bright patches with names like North Star and Crossroads, patches with secret meanings made into quilts called Show Ways...
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
AuthorRussell Freedman
ISBN0618159762
"A voice like yours," celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini told contralto Marian Anderson, "is heard once in a hundred years." This insightful account of the great African American vocalist considers her life and musical career in the context of the history of civil rights in this country. Drawing...
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
AuthorTanya Lee Stone
ISBN0763636118
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...
Journey Outside
AuthorMary Q. Steele
ISBN0140305882
Grandfather said they were headed for the Better Place, but Dilar suspected they were headed nowhere, simply following the dark underground river blindly. And so one night he leaped onto a shelf of rock and watched the flotilla of the Raft People disappear. And from there he found his way Outside, into...
Carver: A Life in Poems
AuthorMarilyn Nelson
ISBN1886910537
George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department...
Whittington
AuthorAlan Armstrong
ISBN0375828656
This Newbery-Honor winning tale introduces Whittington, a roughneck Tom who arrives one day at a barn full of rescued animals and asks for a place there. He spins for the animals—as well as for Ben and Abby, the kids whose grandfather does the rescuing—a yarn about his ancestor, the nameless cat...
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount Saint Helens
AuthorPatricia Lauber
ISBN0689716796
May 18, 1980, 8:32 A.M.: An earthquake suddenly triggered an avalanche on Mount St. Helens, a volcano in southern Washington State. Minutes later, Mount St. Helens blew the top off its peak and exploded into the most devastating volcanic eruption in U.S. history.

What caused the eruption?...
26 Fairmount Avenue
AuthorTomie dePaola
ISBN0698118642
A Newbery Honor Book

Tomie's family starts building their new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue in 1938, just as a hurricane hits town, starting off a busy, crazy year. Tomie has many adventures all his own, including eating chocolate with his Nana Upstairs, only to find out--the hard way--that...
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
AuthorCatherine Thimmesh
ISBN0618507574
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield...
Belling the Tiger
AuthorMary Stolz
ISBN0762418893
At last, Mary Stolz's 1962 Newbery Honor-winning book is back. And now, for the first time, the classic story is brought to life with colorful illustrations in a picture book format. Award-winning illustrator Pierre Pratt adds whimsical new art to this charming tale about two little mice assigned...
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
AuthorAnn Bausum
ISBN0792241738
Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders...
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
AuthorMargarita Engle
ISBN0805086749
It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the camps. So she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her.

Black,...
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley
AuthorSally M. Walker
ISBN1575058308
On February 17, 1864, the H.L. Hunley made history as the first submarine to sink a ship in battle. Soldiers on the shore waited patiently after seeing the submarine's return signal. But after several days, the ship had failed to return. What had gone wrong? In 1995, after over 130 years of searching,...
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun
AuthorRhoda Blumberg
ISBN0060086254
In 1853, few Japanese people knew that a country called America even existed. For centuries, Japan had isolated itself from the outside world by refusing to trade with other countries and even refusing to help shipwrecked sailors, foreign or Japanese. The country's people still lived under a feudal...
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
AuthorJohn Fleischman
ISBN0618494782
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. Phineas, a railroad construction foreman, was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived to live another eleven years and become a textbook case in brain science.

At...
The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing
AuthorSuzanne Tripp Jurmain
ISBN0618965815
Red oozes from the patient's gums. He has a rushing headache and the whites of his eyes look like lemons. He will likely die within days.

Here is the true story of how four Americans and one Cuban tracked down a killer, one of the word's most vicious plagues: yellow fever. Set in fever-stricken...
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