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10 best books like Clara and Davie (Patricia Polacco): Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever, A Home for Mr. Emerson, Eleanor, Quiet No More, Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children, Grandfather Gandhi, Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote, Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library, Henry Aaron's Dream, Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México

Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
AuthorLaurie Ann Thompson
Genre: Biography, picture book
Recommended Grade Levels: K-3
Themes: Perseverance, empowerment, disabilities
Summary:
This is a true story about a boy named Emmanuel, who was born in a small village in Ghana, West Africa. Emmanuel was born with one healthy leg and one leg that...
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever
AuthorH. Joseph Hopkins
ISBN1442414022
Unearth the true story of green-thumbed pioneer and activist Kate Sessions, who helped San Diego grow from a dry desert town into a lush, leafy city known for its gorgeous parks and gardens.

Katherine Olivia Sessions never thought she’d live in a place without trees. After all, Kate grew...
A Home for Mr. Emerson
AuthorBarbara Kerley
ISBN0545350883
From the award-winning creators of THOSE REBELS, JOHN & TOM, a joyful portrait of an American icon and an inspiring blueprint for how to live your life.

"All life is an experiment.
The more
experiments you make
the better."

Before Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great writer,...
Eleanor, Quiet No More
AuthorDoreen Rappaport
ISBN0786851414
Eleanor Roosevelt was raised in a privileged but stern Victorian household, with an affectionate but mostly absent father and a critical mother who made fun of her daughter's looks. Alone and lonely for much of her childhood, Eleanor found solace in books and in the life of her lively and independent...
Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children
AuthorJan Pinborough
Once upon a time, American children couldn’t borrow library books. Reading wasn’t all that important for children, many thought. Luckily Miss Anne Carroll Moore thought otherwise! This is the true story of how Miss Moore created the first children’s room at the New York Public Library, a bright,...
Grandfather Gandhi
AuthorArun Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi's grandson tells the story of how his grandfather taught him to turn darkness into light in this uniquely personal and vibrantly illustrated tale that carries a message of peace.

How could he "a Gandhi" be so easy to anger?

One thick, hot day, Arun Gandhi travels with...
Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
AuthorTanya Lee Stone
ISBN0805079033
Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went to college and later gathered other like-minded women to challenge the right to vote.Here is the inspiring...
Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library
AuthorBarb Rosenstock
ISBN1590789326
As soon as Thomas Jefferson learned to read, he found his passion: books, books, and more books! Before, during, and after the American Revolution, Jefferson collected thousands of books on hundreds of subjects. In fact, his massive collection eventually helped rebuild the Library of Congress—now...
Henry Aaron's Dream
AuthorMatt Tavares
ISBN0763632244
Matt Tavares hits one out of the park with this powerful tale of a kid from the segregated south who would become baseball’s home-run king.

Before he was Hammerin’ Hank, Henry Aaron was a young boy grow ing up in Mobile, Alabama, with what seemed like a foolhardy dream: to be a big-league baseball...
Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México
AuthorDuncan Tonatiuh
ISBN1419725327
Award-winning author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh tells the story of Amalia Hernández, dancer and founder of El Ballet Folklórico de México.

Published in time for the 100th anniversary of Hernández’s birth, Danza! is the first picture book about the famous dancer and choreographer.

Danza!...
Tillie the Terrible Swede: How One Woman, a Sewing Needle, and a Bicycle Changed History
AuthorSue Stauffacher
ISBN0375944427
When Tillie Anderson came to America, all she had was a needle. So she got herself a job in a tailor shop and waited for a dream to find her. One day, a man sped by on a bicycle. She was told "bicycles aren't for ladies," but from then on, Tillie dreamed of riding—not graceful figure eights, but speedy, scorching,...
Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table
AuthorJacqueline Briggs Martin
ISBN0983661537
Will Allen is no ordinary farmer. A former basketball star, he's as tall as his truck, and he can hold a cabbage--or a basketball--in one hand. But what is most special about Farmer Will is that he can see what others can't see. When he looked at an abandoned city lot in Milwaukee he saw a huge table, big enough...
Barnum's Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World
AuthorTracey E. Fern
ISBN0374305161
Barnum Brown's (1873-1963) parents named him after the circus icon P.T. Barnum, hoping that he would do something extraordinary--and he did! As a paleonotologist for the American Museum of Natural History, he discovered the first documented skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as most...
Noah Webster and His Words
AuthorJeri Chase Ferris
ISBN0547390556
Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction

Webster’s American Dictionary is the second most popular book ever printed in English. But who was that Webster? Noah Webster (1758–1843) was a bookish Connecticut farm boy who became obsessed with uniting America through language. He spent twenty...
Queen of the Diamond: The Lizzie Murphy Story
AuthorEmily Arnold McCully
ISBN0374300070
Lizzie Murphy was good at baseball. In fact, she was better than most of the boys. But she was born in 1900, and back then baseball was not a game for girls. Lizzie practiced with her brother anyway, and then she talked her way onto the local boys’ team, first as a batboy, then as a player. Everyone was...
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch
AuthorChris Barton
John Roy Lynch spent most of his childhood as a slave in Mississippi, but all of that changed with the Emancipation Proclamation. Suddenly people like John Roy could have paying jobs and attend school. While many people in the South were unhappy with the social change, John Roy thrived in the new era....
Girl Running: Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
AuthorAnnette Bay Pimentel
The inspiring story of the first female to run the Boston Marathon comes to life in stunningly vivid collage illustrations.

Because Bobbi Gibb is a girl, she's not allowed to run on her school's track team. But after school, no one can stop her--and she's free to run endless miles to her heart's...
Florence Nightingale
AuthorDemi
ISBN0805097295
Florence Nightingale revolutionized the world of medicine by emphasizing cleanliness, food that was hot and nutritious, and organization in hospitals. What began as an attempt to make army hospitals safer and more effective became a lifelong mission, and remains relevant today.
 
This...
Malala, a Brave Girl from Pakistan/Iqbal, a Brave Boy from Pakistan: Two Stories of Bravery
AuthorJeanette Winter
ISBN1481422952
Meet two heroes of Pakistan who stood up for the rights to freedom and education in these inspirational nonfiction tales from acclaimed author-illustrator Jeannette Winter. Two stories of bravery in one beautiful book!

Meet two brave young heroes of Pakistan who stood up for the right to...
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
AuthorKatheryn Russell-Brown
ISBN1600608981
Melba Doretta Liston loved the sounds of music from as far back as she could remember. As a child, she daydreamed about beats and lyrics, and hummed along with the music from her family's Majestic radio. At age seven, Melba fell in love with a big, shiny trombone, and soon taught herself to play the instrument....
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