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10 best books like Around the World in a Hundred Years (Jean Fritz): Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Owls in the Family, The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole, Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora, Making Thirteen Colonies: 1600-1740 A History of US, Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure, Sees Behind Trees, Marco Polo, Leif the Lucky

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
AuthorEleanor Coerr
Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the "atom bomb disease," Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For...
Owls in the Family
AuthorFarley Mowat
ISBN0440413613
Farley Mowat's funniest book tells the adventures of Wol and Weeps, two owls from Saskatchewan who shape up a whole neighbourhood, turn a house topsy-turvy, and outsmart Mutt, the dog hero of The Dog Who Wouldn't Be. Wol brings dead skunks to the family dinner table and terrorizes the minister, the postman,...
The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole
AuthorMichelle Cuevas
A girl's friendship with a lonely black hole leads her to face her own sadness.

When eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez shows up at NASA to request that her recording be included in Carl Sagan's Golden Record, something unexpected happens: A black hole follows her home, and sets out to live in...
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas
AuthorJim Ottaviani
ISBN1596438657
Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology—and...
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
AuthorPablo Cartaya
Save the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG, EPIC FAIL?

For Arturo, summetime in Miami means playing basketball until dark, sipping mango smoothies, and keeping cool under banyan trees. And maybe a few...
Making Thirteen Colonies: 1600-1740 A History of US
AuthorJoy Hakim
ISBN0195188950
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.

All kinds of people are coming to America. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians,...
Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
AuthorJim Murphy
This is the story of a killer that has been striking people down for thousands of years: tuberculosis. After centuries of ineffective treatments, the microorganism that causes TB was identified, and the cure was thought to be within reach—but drug-resistant varieties continue to plague and panic...
Sees Behind Trees
AuthorMichael Dorris
ISBN0078681357
Visually impaired Walnut cannot earn his adult name the same way other boys do, by hitting a target with a bow and arrow. With his highly developed other senses, however, he earns a new name: Sees Behind Trees. "Dorris takes on some meaty existential issues here; he does so with grace, bighearted empathy,...
Marco Polo
AuthorDemi
ISBN0761454330
Many people say Marco Polo was the greatest explorer that ever lived, traveling 33, miles by land and sea from Venice, Italy, to modern-day Beijing, China. His famous book, The Travels of Marco Polo, indicates that he was a man of extraordinary bravery, brilliance, and strength. With his uncle and father,...
Leif the Lucky
AuthorIngri d'Aulaire
ISBN0964380307
Okay, Leif the Lucky might've topped Benjamin Franklin. The contest was a close one. It's the d'Aulaires' world, I'm just living in it.

We haven't yet read every work by the d'Aulaires. But their works on Leif Erikson and the Norse Gods show they have a passion for Norwegian mythology, history,...
Pedro's Journal
AuthorPam Conrad
ISBN0590462067
Historical fiction/Children's Literature
Based on a child who actually did travel on the Santa Maria with Columbus. Also clearly based on Columbus's shockingly stupid journal entries.I like reading this with my students while we are learning about Columbus and other European explorers. It...
Children of the Longhouse
AuthorJoseph Bruchac
ISBN0140385045
When Ohkwa'ri overhears a group of older boys planning a raid on a neighboring village, he immediately tells his Mohawk elders. He has done the right thing—but he has also made enemies. Grabber and his friends will do anything they can to hurt him, especially during the village-wide game of Tekwaarathon...
The First Americans: Prehistory-1600
AuthorJoy Hakim
ISBN0195188942
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text.

Thousands of years--way before Christopher Columbus set sail--wandering tribes of hunters made their way from Asia across the Bering land bridge to North America....
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