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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

10 best books like Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Phillip Hoose): Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot, We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting, Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary, A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis, The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith, We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March

Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
AuthorSally M. Walker
ISBN0822571358
Bright white teeth. Straight leg bones. Awkwardly contorted arm bones. On a hot summer day in 2005, Dr. Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution peered into an excavated grave, carefully examining the fragile skeleton that had been buried there for four hundred years. "He was about fifteen years...
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
AuthorSy Montgomery
ISBN0618494170
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds—the largest and most unusual parrots on earth—have suffered devastating population loss.

Now, on an island refuge with...
We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
AuthorKadir Nelson
ISBN0786808322
Rube Foster was the founder of the Negro National League. Said he of his men, "We are the ship: all else the sea." As long as there has been baseball in America there have been African-American ballplayers. Men like Sol White and Bud Fowler. Before Rube Foster, however, there was no organized professional...
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
AuthorJoyce Sidman
ISBN0547152280
A 2011 Newbery Honor Book


Come feel the cool and shadowed breeze,
come smell your way among the trees,
come touch rough bark and leathered leaves:
Welcome to the night.

Welcome to the night, where mice stir and furry moths flutter. Where snails spiral into shells...
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
AuthorJim Murphy
ISBN0545130492
Two-time Newbery Honor Book author Jim Murphy writes a stunning nonfiction masterpiece about a Christmas miracle on the Western Front during World War I.On July 29th 1914, the world's peace was shattered as the artillery of the Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling the troops of the country to its...
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary
AuthorElizabeth Partridge
ISBN0670011894
An inspiring look at the fight for the vote, by an award-winning author Only 44 years ago in the U.S., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a fight to win blacks the right to vote. Ground zero for the movement became Selma, Alabama.

Award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge leads you straight...
A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
AuthorMatt de la Pena
ISBN0803731671
On the eve of World War II, African American boxer Joe Louis fought German Max Schmeling in a bout that had more at stake than just the world heavyweight title; for much of America their fight came to represent America's war with Germany. This elegant and powerful picture book biography centers around...
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
AuthorRussell Freedman
ISBN0618159762
"A voice like yours," celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini told contralto Marian Anderson, "is heard once in a hundred years." This insightful account of the great African American vocalist considers her life and musical career in the context of the history of civil rights in this country. Drawing...
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
AuthorDeborah Heiligman
ISBN0805087214
Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching the theory...
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
AuthorCynthia Levinson
ISBN1561456276
We've Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, between May 2 and May 11, 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi's and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s precept to fill the jails, they succeeded...
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
AuthorSusan Campbell Bartoletti
"Boys, let us get up a club."With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend’s mansion in 1866. They pulled white sheets over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee. Soon, the six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan and began...
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...
Carver: A Life in Poems
AuthorMarilyn Nelson
ISBN1886910537
George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department...
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
AuthorAndrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN1423142578
HAND IN HAND presents the stories of ten men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. The stories are accessible, fully-drawn narratives offering the subjects' childhood influences, the time and place in which they lived,...
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN0375836187
The award-winning author of Ben Franklin’s Almanac and Our Eleanor has created an enthralling joint biography of our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, and his complex wife—a scrapbook history that uses photographs, letters, engravings, and even cartoons, along with a fascinating text,...
The Frog Scientist
AuthorPamela S. Turner
ISBN0618717161
The critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field book about how one boy’s interest in backyard science inspired a career in scientific discovery.

When Tyrone Hayes was growing up in South Carolina, he didn’t worry about pesticides. He just liked to collect frogs. Tyrone’s interest...
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...
Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
AuthorScott Reynolds Nelson
Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are often lost. Historian Scott Nelson brings John Henry alive for young readers in his personal quest for the true story of the man behind the myth. Nelson...
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
AuthorRick Bowers
ISBN1426305958
The Spies of Mississippi is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Rights era. This book sheds new light on one of the most momentous periods in American history.

Author Rick Bowers has combed through primary-source materials...
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