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Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917

10 best books like Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 (Sally M. Walker): Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart, Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America, How They Croaked, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi, Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy, Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal, Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World

Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
AuthorPhillip Hoose
ISBN0374304688
B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It’s time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.
He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists...
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN0375841989
From the acclaimed author of The Great and Only Barnum—as well as The Lincolns, Our Eleanor, and Ben Franklin's Almanac—comes the thrilling story of America's most celebrated flyer, Amelia Earhart.

In alternating chapters, Fleming deftly moves readers back and forth between Amelia's...
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...
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
AuthorSusan Campbell Bartoletti
ISBN0544313674
What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged?

With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial...
How They Croaked
AuthorGeorgia Bragg
ISBN0802798179
Over the course of history men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess-especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. How They Croaked relays all the gory details of how nineteen world figures gave up the ghost. For example:


It...
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...
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
AuthorNeal Bascomb
ISBN0545430992
The story of Eichmann's capture is now a major motion picture starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley, Operation Finale!

In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen...
Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
AuthorAlbert Marrin
On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City burst into flames.  The factory was crowded.  The doors were locked to ensure workers stay inside.  One hundred forty-six people—mostly women—perished; it was one of the most lethal workplace fires in American history until...
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
AuthorVaunda Micheaux Nelson
ISBN0822567644
Sitting tall in the saddle, with a wide-brimmed black hat and twin Colt pistols on his belt, Bass Reeves seemed bigger than life. Outlaws feared him.

As a deputy U.S. Marshal and former slave who escaped to freedom in the Indian Territories, Bass was cunning and fearless. When a lawbreaker heard...
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
AuthorSy Montgomery
ISBN0547443153
When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew that she was different. Years later she was diagnosed with autism.
   While Temple’s doctor recommended a hospital, her mother believed in her. Temple went to school instead.
   Today, Dr. Temple Grandin is a scientist and professor...
Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"
AuthorMichael O. Tunnell
ISBN1580893376
After World War II the United States and Britain airlifted food and supplies into Russian-blockaded West Berlin. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail S. Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. To lift their spirits, he began dropping chocolate and gum by parachute.

Michael O. Tunnell...
America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
AuthorSteven M. Gillon
A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America’s Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too soon.
 
Through the lens of their decades-long friendship...
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