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10 best books like Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers (Sarah E. Warren): Moonhead and the Music Machine, Free as a Bird: The Story of Malala, Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride, Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America, Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality, Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan, Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World, Here Come the Girl Scouts!: The Amazing All-True Story of Juliette 'Daisy' Gordon Low and Her Great Adventure, Frida: ¡Viva La Vida! Long Live Life!

Moonhead and the Music Machine
AuthorAndrew Rae
ISBN1907704787
Life's a peach when you've got a moon for a head and your head's in space. You can wander out of the Earth's atmosphere on intergalactic daydreams, drift blissfully across star-speckled skies and fly close to the Sun, like a fireproof Icarus.

Snap! Back to reality—having a moon for a head at...
Free as a Bird: The Story of Malala
AuthorLina Maslo
ISBN0062560778
The inspiring true story of Malala Yousafzai, human rights activist and the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, from debut author/illustrator Lina Maslo.

When Malala Yousafzai was born, some people shook their heads because girls were considered bad luck. But her father looked...
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
AuthorMargot Lee Shetterly
ISBN0062742469
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really good.

They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a...
Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride
AuthorAndrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN0786807679
Born into slavery, Belle had to endure the cruelty of several masters before she escaped to freedom. But she knew she wouldn't really be free unless she was helping to end injustice. That's when she changed her name to Sojourner and began traveling across the country, demanding equal rights for black...
Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America
AuthorPeter Andreas
ISBN0199746885
America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British industrial technologies and African slaves in the 19th century, to French condoms and Canadian booze in the early 20th century, to Mexican workers...
Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality
AuthorDavid Cay Johnston
The issue of inequality has irrefutably returned to the fore, riding on the anger against Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis and the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of the superOCorich. The Occupy movement made the plight of the 99 percent an indelible part of...
Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan
AuthorJeanette Winter
ISBN1416994378
Renowned picture book creator Jeanette Winter tells the story of a young girl in Afghanistan who attends a secret school for girls.

Young Nasreen has not spoken a word to anyone since her parents disappeared.

In despair, her grandmother risks everything to enroll Nasreen in a secret...
Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World
AuthorLaurie Lawlor
ISBN0823423700
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring, here is a biography of the pioneering environmentalist. "Once you are aware of the wonder and beauty of earth, you will want to learn about it," wrote Rachel Carson, the pioneering environmentalist. She wrote Silent Spring,...
Here Come the Girl Scouts!: The Amazing All-True Story of Juliette 'Daisy' Gordon Low and Her Great Adventure
AuthorShana Corey
ISBN0545342783
The amazing, all-true story of the first Girl Scouts and their visionary founder.

Juliette Gordon Low--Daisy to her friends and family--was not like most girls of the Victorian era.

Prim and proper?

BOSH!

Dainty and delicate?

HOW BORING!

She...
Frida: ¡Viva La Vida! Long Live Life!
AuthorCarmen T. Bernier-Grand
ISBN0761453369
"Wearing the white huipil with the lavender tassel,
hiding my amputated leg in red-leather boots,
I wheel the wheelchair to the Blue House studio
that Diego so lovingly built for me.

I dip the brush in blood-red paint
and, embracing life with all its light,
I print on a...
How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning
AuthorRosalyn Schanzer
ISBN0688169937
Ben Franklin was the most famous American in the entire world during colonial times. No wonder! After all, the man could do just about anything. Why, he was an author and an athlete and a patriot and a scientist and an inventor to boot. He even found a way to steal the lightning right out of the sky.

Is...
Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football's Make-Or-Break Moment
AuthorCarla Killough McClafferty
ISBN1467710679
When the 1905 football season ended, nineteen players were dead and countless others were critically injured. The public was outraged. The game had reached a make-or-break moment--fourth down and inches. Coaches, players, fans, and even the president of the United States had one last chance: change...
Gandhi: a March to the Sea
AuthorAlice B. McGinty
ISBN1477816445
Mohandas Gandhi's 24-day March to the Sea, from March 12 to April 5, 1930, was a pivotal moment in India's quest to become an independent country no longer ruled by Great Britain. With over 70 marchers, Gandhi walked from his hometown near Ahmedabab to the sea coast by the village of Dandi. The march was...
Where Will I Live?
AuthorRosemary McCarney
ISBN1772600288
Where do you go if your home is no longer safe?

Every child needs a home. They need somewhere safe where they can be happy, eat their meals with their family, play with their toys, and go to sleep at night feeling unafraid.

But many children all over the world have had to leave their homes...
The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry That Defined a Generation
AuthorSteven M. Gillon
ISBN0195322789
Most Americans saw President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich as staunch foes--"the polar extremes of Pennsylvania Avenue." But as Steven Gillon reveals in The Pact, these powerful adversaries formed a secret alliance in 1997, a pact that would have rocked the political landscape, had it not...
Pirate
AuthorRichard Platt
ISBN0756607132
I shared this book with a year 2 boy whilst on my alternative placement. He was totally enthralled by the information and pictures.

The book has many chapters detailing the lives of pirates. It has links to history with the pirates of ancient Greece section and further links with pirates of the...
Only Passing Through
AuthorAnne Rockwell
A powerful picture book biography of one of the abolitionist movement's most compelling voices.

Sojourner Truth traveled the country in the latter half of the 19th century, speaking out against slavery. She told of a slave girl who was sold three times by age 13, who was beaten for not understanding...
Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber
AuthorSue Macy
ISBN1481401203
From beloved author Sue Macy comes an illustrated biography of Mary Garber, one of the first female sports journalists in American history!

While sitting in the bleachers of a Soap Box Derby in the 1950s, Mary Garber overheard two African-American boys in the following exchange: “See that...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality
AuthorJonah Winter
ISBN1419725599
To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and ’40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by her father, who thought a woman’s place was in the home. Regardless, she went...
Malala pour le droit des filles à l'éducation
AuthorRaphaële Frier
ISBN9782355043
Malala Yousafzai est pakistanaise et musulmane. Depuis l’âge de onze ans, elle dénonce les intégristes musulmans qui considèrent que l’école, ce n’est pas pour les filles. Pour tenter de la faire taire, ils ont même tiré sur elle. Par bonheur, Malala est toujours debout. Aujourd’hui...
Lift Your Light a Little Higher: The Story of Stephen Bishop: Slave-Explorer
AuthorHeather Henson
Grab your lantern and follow the remarkable and world-famous Mammoth Cave explorer—and slave—Stephen Bishop as he guides you through the world’s largest cave system in this remarkable homage to the resilience of human nature.

Welcome to Mammoth Cave. It’s 1840 and my name’s...
A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand
AuthorPhilip Short
ISBN0805088539
The man who changed the course of modern France

In 1981, François Mitterrand became France's first popularly elected socialist president. By the time he completed his mandate, he had led the country for 14 years, longer than any other French head of state in modern times. Mitterrand mirrored...
Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education
AuthorNoliwe Rooks
ISBN1620972484
Public schools are among America's greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported education--today a sector with an estimated budget of over half a billion dollars--there have been intractable tensions tied to race and poverty. Now, in an era characterized...
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls Are Born to Lead
AuthorMichelle Markel
ISBN0062381229
In the spirit of Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope and Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride comes an inspiring portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton: a girl who fought to make a difference—and paved the way for women everywhere—from Michelle Markel and LeUyen Pham.

In the 1950s, it was...
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