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10 best books like Diana's White House Garden (Elisa Carbone): All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom, Let the Children March, Strange Fruit, Gingerbread for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution, Elizabeth Started All the Trouble, Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Two Friends, Sergeant Reckless: The True Story of the Little Horse Who Became a Hero, The Secret Subway, Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table

All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
AuthorAngela Johnson
Experience the joy of Juneteenth in this celebration of freedom from the award-winning team of Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis.

Through the eyes of one little girl, All Different Now tells the story of the first Juneteenth, the day freedom finally came to the last of the slaves in the South. Since...
Let the Children March
AuthorMonica Clark-Robinson
ISBN0544704525
I couldn't play on the same playground as the white kids. 
I couldn't go to their schools.  
I couldn't drink from their water fountains.  
There were so many things I couldn't do. 

In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to...
Strange Fruit
AuthorGary Golio
ISBN1467751235
This is a tough one. “Strange Fruit,” a protest song about the lynching of Black Americans, was Billie Holiday’s powerful signature. In concert and on record, her rendition was chilling and emotional.

So, Gary Golio’s attempt to develop a picture book based on Billie Holiday’s...
Gingerbread for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution
AuthorMara Rockliff
ISBN0544130014
Christopher Ludwick was a German-born American patriot with a big heart and a talent for baking. When cries of “Revolution!” began, Christopher was determined to help General George Washington and his hungry troops. Not with muskets or cannons, but with gingerbread!
     Cheerfully...
Elizabeth Started All the Trouble
AuthorDoreen Rappaport
ISBN0786851422
She couldn't go to college.

She couldn't become a politician.

She couldn't even vote.

But Elizabeth Cady Stanton didn't let that stop her.

She called on women across the nation to stand together and demand to be treated as equal to men-and that included the right...
Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
AuthorJonah Winter
ISBN0385390289
An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family’s tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

As Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes a “long haul...
Two Friends
AuthorDean Robbins
ISBN0545399963
Some people had rights, while others had none.
Why shouldn't they have them, too?

Two friends, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, get together for tea and conversation. They recount their similar stories fighting to win rights for women and African Americans. The premise of this...
Sergeant Reckless: The True Story of the Little Horse Who Became a Hero
AuthorPatricia McCormick
ISBN0062292595
The inspiring true story of Reckless, the brave little horse who became a Marine.

When a group of US Marines fighting in the Korean War found a bedraggled mare, they wondered if she could be trained to as a packhorse. They had no idea that the skinny, underfed horse had one of the biggest and bravest...
The Secret Subway
AuthorShana Corey
From an acclaimed author and a New York Times Best Illustrated artist comes the fascinating, little-known—and true!—story of New York City’s first subway.

New York City in the 1860s was a mess: crowded, disgusting, filled with garbage. You see, way back in 1860, there were no subways,...
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...
Seven and a Half of Tons of Steel
AuthorJanet Nolan
ISBN1561459127
There is a ship, a navy ship. It is called the USS New York. It is big like other navy ships, and it sails like other navy ships, but there is something special about the USS New York. Following the events of September 11, 2001, the governor of New York gave the Navy a steel beam that was once inside one of the...
28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World
AuthorCharles R. Smith Jr.
ISBN1596438207
Each day features a different influential figure in African-American history, from Crispus Attucks, the first man shot in the Boston Massacre, sparking the Revolutionary War, to Madame C. J. Walker, who after years of adversity became the wealthiest black woman in the country, as well as one of the...
Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How Monopoly Was Invented
AuthorTanya Lee Stone
Boldness, imagination, and ruthless competition combine in Tanya Lee Stone and Steven Salerno's Pass Go and Collect $200, a riveting picture book history of Monopoly, one of the world's most famous games.

In the late 1800s lived Lizzie Magie, a clever and charismatic woman with a strong sense...
Flowers for Sarajevo
AuthorJohn McCutcheon
ISBN1682630005
The moving story of a young boy who discovers the power of beauty and kindness during a time of war. Drasko helps his father sell flowers in Sarajevo, but when war threatens and his father is called to the battlefront, Drasko must take over the flower stall. One morning the boys familiar routine is shattered...
Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion
AuthorChris Barton
This book is stunning. The gorgeous cover caught my attention while I was cataloging it, and I had to pause to read through. I can't decide which element of it is the best (that's a lie, it's obviously the spectacular illustrations)—but the subject itself is fascinating, and even the author's and illustrator's...
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
AuthorSusan E. Goodman
ISBN0802737390
In 1847, a young African American girl named Sarah Roberts was attending a school in Boston. Then one day she was told she could never come back. She didn't belong. The Otis School was for white children only.

Sarah deserved an equal education, and the Roberts family fought for change. They made...
Steamboat School
AuthorDeborah Hopkinson
ISBN1423121961
Missouri, 1847

When James first started school, his sister practically had to drag him there. The classroom was dark and dreary, and James knew everything outside was more exciting than anything he'd find inside.

But his teacher taught him otherwise.

"We make our own light...
Clara: The (Mostly) True Story of the Rhinoceros who Dazzled Kings, Inspired Artists, and Won the Hearts of Everyone . . . While She Ate Her Way Up and Down a
AuthorEmily Arnold McCully
ISBN0553522477
Based on the true story of an eighteenth-century rhino who toured Europe and started a sensation! In detailed illustrations, McCully shows Clara being introduced to Louis XV of France, Frederick the Great of Germany, and others willing to pay for a chance to stroke her soft lip. Her owner, a Dutch sea...
Born in the Wild: Baby Mammals and Their Parents
AuthorLita Judge
ISBN1596439254
What do grizzly bear cubs eat? Where do baby raccoons sleep? And how does a baby otter learn to swim?

Every baby mammal, from a tiny harvest mouse "pinky" to a fierce lion cub, needs food, shelter, love, and a family. Filled with illustrations of some of the most adorable babies in the kingdom,...
Rolling Thunder
AuthorKate Messner
ISBN0545470129
Lines of bikes are miles long,
shining, half a million strong.
Rumbling, grumbling, engines roar.
Peace signs. High fives. Spirits soar.

Every Memorial Day in Washington, DC, more than a million veterans and their supporters gather for the Rolling Thunder® Ride for Freedom,...
The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage
AuthorSelina Alko
ISBN0545478537
For most children these days it would come as a great shock to know that before 1967, they could not marry a person of a race different from their own. That was the year that the Supreme Court issued its decision in Loving v. Virginia.

This is the story of one brave family: Mildred Loving, Richard...
Freedom in Congo Square
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
ISBN1499801033
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,...
Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine
AuthorGloria Whelan
ISBN1442458852
Prince Albert comes up with a royally creative solution to Queen Victoria’s modesty concerns in this true story that reveals an overlooked splash of history.

Poor Queen Victoria! She loves to swim, but can’t quite figure out how to get to the water without her devoted subjects glimpsing...
The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game
AuthorNancy Churnin
ISBN0807591920
Winner - 2017 Storytelling World Resource Award Honor BookFinalist - 2017 North Texas Book Festival Best Children's Books All William Ellsworth Hoy wanted to do was play baseball. After losing out on a spot on the local deaf team, William practiced even harder—eventually earning a position on...
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