Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City

10 best books like Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City (Phillip Hoose): Blended, Shout, New Kid, Pay Attention, Carter Jones, Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam, Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend, Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and the War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America, Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump, They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems, Tight

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...

Shout

Author

Laurie Halse Anderson

A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!

Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans...

New Kid

Author

Jerry Craft

Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade.

As he...

Pay Attention, Carter Jones

Author

Gary D. Schmidt

Carter Jones is astonished early one morning when he finds a real English butler, bowler hat and all, on the doorstep—one who stays to help the Jones family, which is a little bit broken.

In addition to figuring out middle school, Carter has to adjust to the unwelcome presence of this new know-it-all...

Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam

Author	Elizabeth Partridge
ISBN	0142423750

In March 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops into Vietnam. 57,939 American soldiers would be killed and seventeen years would pass before this controversial chapter of American history concluded with the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982.

The history of this...

Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend

Author	Karen Blumenthal
ISBN	0147513839

Bonnie and Clyde may be the most notorious--and celebrated--outlaw couple America has ever known. This is the true story of how they got that way.

Bonnie and Clyde: we've been on a first name basis with them for almost a hundred years. Immortalized in movies, songs, and pop culture references,...

Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and the War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America

Author	Gail Jarrow
ISBN	1629797766

Gail Jarrow explores the famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast from 1938. She highlights the artists behind the broadcast, the broadcast itself, the aftermath, and the repercussions which remain relevant today.

On the night of October 30, 1938, thousands of Americans panicked when they...

Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump

Author	Martha Brockenbrough
ISBN	1250308038

A riveting, meticulously researched, and provocative biography of Donald J. Trump from the author of Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary.

Born into a family of privilege and wealth, he was sent to military school at the age of 13. After an unremarkable academic career, he joined the family...

They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems

Author

David Bowles

Twelve-year-old Güero is Mexican American, at home with Spanish or English and on both sides of the river. He’s starting 7th grade with a woke English teacher who knows how to make poetry cool.

In Spanish, “Güero” is a nickname for guys with pale skin, Latino or Anglo. But make no mistake:...

Tight

Author	Torrey Maldonado
ISBN	1524740551

Tight: Lately, Bryan's been feeling it in all kinds of ways . . .

Bryan knows what's tight for him--reading comics, drawing superheroes, and hanging out with no drama. But drama is every day where he's from, and that gets him tight, wound up.

And now Bryan's friend Mike pressures him...