Children of the Great Depression
10 best books like Children of the Great Depression (Russell Freedman): How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark, Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map, Son of a Gun, Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea, Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel, Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon, The Race to Save the Lord God Bird, This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie, Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark
| Author | Rosalyn Schanzer |
| ISBN | 0792267265 |
Excellent children's non-fiction picture book detailing the journey of Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery. Most of the text is taken from the actual account. The passages have been chosen with great care for the intended audience of ages 6 and older. They reveal just enough information to...
Simply told, grandly shown, here is the flight of Apollo 11. Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts, clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats. Here are their great machines in all their detail and monumentality, the...
| Author | Sue Macy |
| ISBN | 0823421635 |
Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball, and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart-pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team...
| Author | Anne de Graaf |
| ISBN | 0802854060 |
Based on true stories of former child soldiers interviewed by the author in Liberia, Son of a Gun describes the journey of a brother and sister, ten-year-old Lucky and eight-year-old Nopi, who are kidnapped from school and forced to become child soldiers.
Lucky and Nopi manage to escape with the...
Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea
| Author | Steve Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0618966366 |
Caldecott Honor–winning Steve Jenkins provides a top-to-bottom look at the ocean, from birds and waves to thermal vents and ooze.
Half the earth’s surface is covered by water more than a mile deep, but most of this watery world is a mystery to us. In fact, more people have stood on the surface...
| Author | C.M. Butzer |
| ISBN | 0061561754 |
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is familiar to all Americans. But never has his most famous speech--his 271 indelible words--been presented in such a visual and accessible format. Graphic artist and Civil War aficionado C. M. Butzer deftly uses a detailed, comic-book style to depict the Battle...
| Author | Catherine Thimmesh |
| ISBN | 0618507574 |
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield...
| Author | Phillip Hoose |
| ISBN | 0374361738 |
The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces...
| Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
| ISBN | 0670035351 |
Before Springsteen and before Dylan, there was Woody Guthrie. With "This Machine Kills Fascists," scrawled across his guitar in big black letters, Woody Guthrie brilliantly captured in song the experience of twentieth-century America. Whether he sang about union organizers, migrant workers,...
| Author | Ann Bausum |
| ISBN | 0792241738 |
Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders...
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0823415457 |
There's a crazy syncopation /and it's tearing through the nation / and it's bringing sweet elation / to every single tune./ It's Jazz
Fifteen poems, infused with the rhythm and wordplay of jazz music, are paired with bold, stylized illustrations of performers and dancers to convey the history...
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0061344311 |
"Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth." So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens.
Abandoning a career as a young steamboat...
| Author | Loree Griffin Burns |
| ISBN | 0618581316 |
Aided by an army of beachcombers, oceanographer Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer tracks trash in the name of science. From sneakers to hockey gloves, Curt monitors the watery fate of human-made cargo that has spilled into the ocean. The information he collects is much more than casual news; it is important scientific...
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0618496416 |
Travel with the scientists as they trek deep into the New Guinea wilderness to locate the elusive Matschie's tree kangaroo.
The photography featured in this book is nothing short of stunning. The full color photographs include both scenic pieces, which
capture the beauty of the...
A Coretta Scott King Honor Award author offers a fresh look at this pioneering American innovator
Shampoo from peanuts? Wallpaper from clay? Ink from sweet potatoes? Discover Carver's imagination and inspiration in this one-of-a-kind biography.
With imagination and intellect,...
| Author | Suzanne Tripp Jurmain |
| ISBN | 0618473025 |
They threw rocks and rotten eggs at the school windows. Villagers refused to sell Miss Crandall groceries or let her students attend the town church. Mysteriously, her schoolhouse was set on fire—by whom and how remains a mystery. The town authorities dragged her to jail and put her on trial for breaking...
Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth
| Author | James Cross Giblin |
| ISBN | 0618096426 |
Edwin Booth and his younger brother John Wilkes Booth were, in many ways, two of a kind. They were among America’s finest actors, having inherited their father’s commanding stage presence along with his penchant for alcohol and impulsive behavior. In other respects, the two brothers were very...
| Author | Albert Marrin |
| ISBN | 0525420770 |
Before global warming, there was dust. In the 1930s, dangerous black storms swept through the Great Plains. Created by drought and reckless farming, these lethal storms were part of an environmental, economic, and human catastrophe that changed the course of American history. In riveting, accessible...
Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
| Author | Jerry Stanley |
| ISBN | 0517880946 |
I was surprised at how this book affected me. I thought it would just be a nice, quick lesson in the Dust Bowl migration. It turned out to be a lesson in humanity.
Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp is very short. The first half gives the historic background and...
Growing Up in Coal Country
| Author | Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
| ISBN | 0395979145 |
Inspired by her in-laws' recollections of working in coal country, Susan Campbell Bartoletti has gathered the voices of men, women, and children who immigrated to and worked in northeastern Pennsylvania at the turn of the century. The story that emerges is not just a story of long hours, little pay,...
Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust
| Author | Ruth Thomson |
| ISBN | 0763649635 |
Through inmates’ own voices and artwork, Terezín explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps.
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany turned the small town of Terezín, Czechoslovakia, into a ghetto, and then into a transit camp for thousands of...
| Author | Elizabeth Carney |
| ISBN | 1426303920 |
WHAT WAS THAT? That’s the roaring burp of a bullfrog! SEE THAT? That’s the slick, shiny skin of colorful little rainforest frogs! Alive with froggy facts, this book has the coolest photos to bring kids deep into the swampy world of our amphibian amigos.
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