Catherine
10 best books like Catherine (April Lindner): Can We Save the Tiger?, Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, The War to End All Wars: World War I, The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred, Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom, The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks, The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science, Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein, Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court, Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the True Story of an American Feud
| Author | Martin Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0763649090 |
The team behind the award-winning APE returns with an inspiring look at a range of endangered species sure to engage every child who loves animals.
Tigers are pretty special — and so are ground iguanas and partula snails and even white-rumped vultures. But these and many other animals are...
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
| Author | Kadir Nelson |
| ISBN | 0061730742 |
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...
| Author | Russell Freedman |
| ISBN | 0547026862 |
Nonfiction master Russell Freedman illuminates for young readers the complex and rarely discussed subject of World War I. The tangled relationships and alliances of many nations, the introduction of modern weaponry, and top-level military decisions that resulted in thousands upon thousands...
The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred
| Author | Samantha R. Vamos |
| ISBN | 1580892426 |
I am lucky to work in a children’s room with a significantly sized bilingual section. The books you’ll find there cover a wide range of languages. Chinese, Arabic, Urdu, you name it. Of them the largest section by far is the Spanish language section. Of course, what we don’t really include in this...
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
| Author | Shane W. Evans |
| ISBN | 1596435380 |
A family silently crawls along the ground. They run barefoot through unlit woods, sleep beneath bushes, take shelter in a kind stranger's home. Where are they heading? They are heading for Freedom by way of the Underground Railroad.
"A stellar introduction to the Underground Railroad, narrated...
| Author | Barb Rosenstock |
| ISBN | 0803737106 |
Caldecott medalist Mordicai Gerstein captures the majestic redwoods of Yosemite in this little-known but important story from our nation's history. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt joined naturalist John Muir on a trip to Yosemite. Camping by themselves in the uncharted woods, the two men...
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 1426311087 |
Growing up in South Dakota, Adrienne Mayor was the quiet girl who never raised her hand in class. Instead, she loved to wander the prairie seeking wonders and filling her mind with stories.
When she found herself in Athens, Greece, she plunged into reading the original versions of ancient myths--especially...
| Author | Susan Goldman Rubin |
| ISBN | 1580893449 |
This biography of American composer, pianist, and conductor Leonard Bernstein takes readers from his childhood in Boston to his spectacular professional conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1943. Illustrated with archival photographs, mostly from the Leonard Bernstein Collection...
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 0763645621 |
Pass! Shoot! Swish! An all-star team of YA authors scores spectacularly with an action-packed anthology about street basketball.
It’s one steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in NYC, otherwise known as The Cage. Hotshot ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird...
| Author | Suzanne Tripp Jurmain |
| ISBN | 0525479031 |
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were good friends with very different personalities. But their differing views on how to run the newly created United States turned them into the worst of friends. They each became leaders of opposing political parties, and their rivalry followed them to the White House....
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 1596436948 |
One of School Library Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011
One of Horn Book's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011
On the ten year anniversary of the September 11 tragedy, a straightforward and sensitive book for a generation of readers too young to remember that terrible day.
The...
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 1499801033 |
Chosen as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2016, this poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known piece of African American history captures a human’s capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly freedom’s heart.
Mondays,...
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 0618574921 |
When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies...
Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 1416903151 |
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. In a plain meetinghouse a woman stands before her judges. The accusers, girls and young women, are fervent and overexcited. The accused is a poor, unpopular woman who had her first child before she was married. As the trial proceeds the girls begin to wail, tear their clothing,...
The third in a trilogy of Jane Austen romantic comedies from UK author Victoria Connelly featuring characters obsessed with Jane Austen and set in Jane Austen locations (A Weekend with Mr. Darcy, Dreaming of Mr. Darcy). Sarah and Mia Castle, two estranged sisters (and Austen addicts) who have spent...
