Anne Frank
10 best books like Anne Frank (Josephine Poole): Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song, Eleanor, Quiet No More, Star of Fear, Star of Hope, Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington, Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909, Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World, I Could Do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote, One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II, Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote, Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen
| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 0316070130 |
They were each born with the gift of gospel.
Martin's voice kept people in their seats, but also sent their praises soaring.
Mahalia's voice was brass-and-butter - strong and smooth at the same time.
With Martin's sermons and Mahalia's songs, folks were free to shout, to...
| Author | Doreen Rappaport |
| ISBN | 0786851414 |
Eleanor Roosevelt was raised in a privileged but stern Victorian household, with an affectionate but mostly absent father and a critical mother who made fun of her daughter's looks. Alone and lonely for much of her childhood, Eleanor found solace in books and in the life of her lively and independent...
Star of Fear, Star of Hope
| Author | Jo Hoestlandt |
| ISBN | 0802775888 |
Set in France, during the Nazi occupation of World War II, a gentile child named Helen recalls the mounting persecution of her Jewish friend. She wonders why does her best friend, Lydia, have to wear a yellow star? Why are people in hiding and using strange names? What is Lydia afraid of?
Touching...
Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
| Author | Jabari Asim |
| ISBN | 0316086576 |
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...
| Author | Michelle Markel |
| ISBN | 0061804428 |
When Clara Lemlich arrived in America, she couldn't speak English. She didn't know that young women had to go to work, that they traded an education for long hours of labor, that she was expected to grow up fast.
But that did not stop Clara.
She went to night school, spent hours studying...
| Author | Cynthia Chin-Lee |
| ISBN | 1570915229 |
“Reading people's life stories inspired me. I could empathize with their struggles, glory in their achievements, and use their examples to overcome the obstacles in my life” (Cynthia Chin-Lee – Author’s Note). Although the count of influential women is way more than twenty-six, this stellar...
| Author | Linda Arms White |
| ISBN | 0374335273 |
Full of humor and spunk – just like Esther!
"I could do that," says six-year-old Esther as she watches her mother making tea. Start her own business at the age of nineteen? Why, she could do that, too. But one thing Esther and other women could NOT do was vote. Only men could do that.
With...
| Author | Lita Judge |
| ISBN | 1423100085 |
If not for the photos, etc. I might have put this book on my historical fiction shelf, but I think the account is sufficiently accurate to have it belong on my non-fiction shelf. The author-illustrator dedicated this book to her mother and grandmother, which is fitting. Judge found a box of foot tracings...
Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0805079033 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went to college and later gathered other like-minded women to challenge the right to vote.Here is the inspiring...
| Author | Marissa Moss |
| ISBN | 0689863292 |
An ALA Notable Children’s Book
An ILA Teachers’ Choice
A Read Aloud/Comstock Honor Book
An ALA Amelia Bloomer Project Book
For as long as she could remember, Jackie Mitchell’s father had told Jackie she could be good at whatever she wanted, as long as she worked at it. Jackie...
| 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 | Elizabeth Rusch |
| ISBN | 0763658553 |
Move over, Thomas Edison! Nikola Tesla takes the spotlight in a biography of the man who pioneered modern electrical engineering — and changed the course of history.
When a Serbian boy named Nikola Tesla was three, he stroked his cat and was enchanted by the electrical sparks. By the time...
| Author | Matt Tavares |
| ISBN | 0763632244 |
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...
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 0439435404 |
Newbery medalist Karen Hesse tells a harrowing, true story about life in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
When Karen Hesse came upon a short article about cats out-foxing the Gestapo at the train station in Warsaw during WWII, she couldn't get the story out of her mind. The result is this stirring account...
| Author | Erika Lopez |
| ISBN | 1878067966 |
An intelligent and self-deprecating romp through the out there humor of one of today's funniest womenA collection of comic narratives that are hilariously incisive and illustrated in her splashy, apropos style, Lap Dancing for Mommy runs riot with mainstream perceptions of underground lifestyles...
| Author | Sue Stauffacher |
| ISBN | 0375944427 |
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,...
| Author | Leda Schubert |
| ISBN | 1596435291 |
Marcel Marceau, the world's most famous mime, enthralled audiences around the world for more than fifty years. When he waved his hand or lifted his eyebrow he was able to speak volumes without ever saying a word. But few know the story of the man behind those gestures . . . Distinguished author Leda Schubert...
| Author | Carlyn Beccia |
| ISBN | 0547225709 |
It wasn’t too long ago that people tried all sorts of things to help sick people feel better. They tried wild things like drinking a glass full of millipedes or putting some mustard on one's head. Some of the cures worked, and some of them…well, let’s just say that millipedes, living or...
| Author | Joanne Ryder |
| ISBN | 0060578505 |
Follow a day in the life of the panda cubs at China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda at the Wolong Nature Preserve, the largest research facility for giant pandas in China. Cubs are raised together in a protected setting—dubbed panda kindergarten—where they grow strong and...
| Author | Marcia K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1600604390 |
Irena Sendler, born to a Polish Catholic family, was raised to respect people of all backgrounds and to help those in need. She became a social worker; and after the German army occupied Poland during World War II, Irena knew she had to help the sick and starving Jews who were imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto....
The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II
| Author | Louise Borden |
| ISBN | 0689808275 |
Outstanding juvenile historical fiction about the WWII Dunkirk evacuation targeted to 8 - 12 year olds, but a worthy read for grown-ups who like kid fiction and anyone who gets a tear in their eye thinking of all those little boats voluntarily going into the way of grievous harm to rescue allied troops.
The...
| Author | Jennifer Lanthier |
| ISBN | 1554552184 |
A city boy finds a stamp that unlocks his imagination; a country boy is captivated by stories. When they grow up, the two boys take different paths – one becomes a prison guard, the other works in a factory – but their early childhood passions remain. When the country boy’s stories of hope land him...
Freedom Song: The Story of Henry "Box" Brown
Henry “Box” Brown’s ingenious escape from slavery is celebrated for its daring and originality. Throughout his life, Henry was fortified by music, family, and a dream of freedom. When he seemed to lose everything, he forged these elements into the song that sustained him through the careful...
Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust
| Author | Ruth Thomson |
| ISBN | 0763649635 |
Through inmates’ own voices and artwork, Terezín explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps.
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany turned the small town of Terezín, Czechoslovakia, into a ghetto, and then into a transit camp for thousands of...
Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto
| Author | Susan Goldman Rubin |
| ISBN | 0823422518 |
Irena Sendler was a diminutive Polish social worker who helped spirit more than four hundred children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Using toolboxes, ambulances, and other ingenious measures, Irena Sendler defied the Nazis and risked her own life by saving and then hiding Jewish children....
