Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam

10 best books like Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam (Elizabeth Partridge): Darius the Great Is Not Okay, Merci Suárez Changes Gears, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler, The Journey of Little Charlie, The Book of Boy, The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science, Hey, Kiddo, Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City, Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Author	Adib Khorram
ISBN	0525552960

Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran.

Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's about to take his first-ever trip to Iran, and it's pretty overwhelming--especially when he's also dealing...

Merci Suárez Changes Gears

Author

Meg Medina

Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina.

Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has...

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees

Author	Don Brown
ISBN	1328810151

In the tradition of Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust Bowl and Sibert Honor winning Drowned City, The Unwanted is an important, timely, and eye-opening exploration of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the harsh realities...

The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler

Author	John Hendrix
ISBN	1419728385

Interweaving handwritten text and art, John Hendrix tells the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the oppression of the German people during World War II. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was shocked to watch the German church embrace Hitler's agenda of hatred....

The Journey of Little Charlie

Author

Christopher Paul Curtis

Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis brings his trademark humor and heart to the story of a boy struggling to do right in the face of history's cruelest evils.

Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His dad just died, the share crops are dry, and the most fearsome man in Possum Moan,...

The Book of Boy

Author

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Boy has always been relegated to the outskirts of his small village. With a large hump on his back, a mysterious past, and a tendency to talk to animals, he is often mocked and abused by the other kids in his town. Until the arrival of a shadowy pilgrim named Secondus. Impressed with Boy’s climbing and...

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science

Author	Joyce Sidman
ISBN	0544717139

Robert F. Sibert Medal winner

Bugs, of all kinds, were considered to be “born of mud” and to be “beasts of the devil.”  Why would anyone, let alone a girl, want to study and observe them?

One of the first naturalists to observe live insects directly, Maria Sibylla Merian was...

Hey, Kiddo

Author

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Hey, Kiddo is the graphic memoir of author-illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka. Raised by his colorful grandparents, who adopted him because his mother was an incarcerated heroin addict, Krosoczka didn't know his father's name until he saw his birth certificate when registering for a school ski trip....

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

Author	Phillip Hoose
ISBN	0374306133

The true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.

By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant...

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...

Finding Langston

Author	Lesa Cline-Ransome
ISBN	0823439607

In a debut historical novel about the Great Migration a boy discovers Chicago's postwar South Side and the poetry of Langston Hughes.

When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known as the Great...

After The Shot Drops

Author	Randy Ribay
ISBN	1328476871

A powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen's mission to create a better life for his family in the tradition of Jason Reynolds, Matt de la Pena, and Walter Dean Myers.    

Bunny and Nasir have been best friends forever, but when Bunny accepts an athletic scholarship...