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Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today

10 best books like Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today (Cynthia Levinson): Mama Says: A Book Of Love For Mothers And Sons, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, Frog Song, Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam, Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far), Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961, Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature, Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird, Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People behind Everyday Words

Mama Says: A Book Of Love For Mothers And Sons
AuthorRob D. Walker
ISBN0439932084
Two-time Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon bring to life these words of wisdom about living life with compassion and courage. Written in rhyming text, this is a "must have" for every family.

Gentle, but powerful life lessons spoken to a child, delivered with a mother's immutable love....
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
AuthorDon Brown
ISBN1328810151
In the tradition of Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust Bowl and Sibert Honor winning Drowned City, The Unwanted is an important, timely, and eye-opening exploration of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the harsh realities...
Frog Song
AuthorBrenda Z. Guiberson
ISBN0805092544
Frog Song describes the lives of eleven different kinds of frogs and toads, from their croaks and bellows, to their habitats, to their birthing methods. (The male Darwin's frog, for example, carries its tadpoles in its vocal sacs for seven weeks as they grow.) A note in the back gives more detail about...
Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
AuthorElizabeth Partridge
ISBN0142423750
In March 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops into Vietnam. 57,939 American soldiers would be killed and seventeen years would pass before this controversial chapter of American history concluded with the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982.

The history of this...
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
AuthorDave Barry
ISBN1423340868
I think Dave Barry retired at the right time. I grew up loving his humor, but it's become more and more formulaic as time goes on, and there's only so many times that the letters in someone's name rearranged, or a goofy suggested band name, or even, dare I say it, a fart joke, can be funny. This book is mostly...
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
AuthorLarry Dane Brimner
ISBN1629795860
On May 4, 1961, a group of thirteen black and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Ride, aiming to challenge the practice of segregation on buses and at bus terminal facilities in the South. The Ride would last twelve days. Despite the fact that segregation on buses crossing state lines...
Brief Histories of Everyday Objects
AuthorAndy Warner
ISBN1250078652
Hilarious, entertaining, and illustrated histories behind some of life's most common and underappreciated objects - from the paperclip and the toothbrush to the sports bra and roller skates

In the tradition of A Cartoon History of the Universe and, most recent, Randall Munroe's What If?...
The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature
AuthorJacob Lentz
ISBN1608190250
Ever since our ancestors first set eyes on a woolly mammoth and agreed that it needed hunting, human beings have been making judgments about animals. The king cobra: That's an A-plus animal. The garden snail? D-minus. On a good day.
In Animal Review, Jacob Lentz and Steve Nash give authoritative...
Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird
AuthorPamela S. Turner
ISBN0544416198
One of the biggest differences between humans and animals is the ability to understand the idea of “If I do X, Y might happen.” New Caledonian crows seem to possess the intelligence to understand this “causal” concept. Why do crows have this ability? What does the crow know and what does it tell...
Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People behind Everyday Words
AuthorJohn Bemelmans Marciano
ISBN1596916532
An encyclopedia of linguistic biographies: the witty, illustrated stories of the Earl of Sandwich, Charles Boycott, and other historical figures better known as words than people.

Eponymous, adj. Giving one's name to a person, place, or thing.

Anonymous, adj. Anonymous.

Anonyponymous,...
Flying Frogs and Walking Fish: Leaping Lemurs, Tumbling Toads, Jet-Propelled Jellyfish, and More Surprising Ways That Animals Move
AuthorSteve Jenkins
ISBN0544630904
A red-lipped batfish waddles across the sea floor on its fins, searching for small sea creatures to eat. Other animals may fly or glide, or jet-propel themselves to get around. These creatures come equipped with legs, wings, or tentacles, and they often move from place to place in surprising ways. In...
Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN0805098356
Robert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers, they set off to capture their generation's most important struggle—the fight against Fascism. Among the first to depict modern warfare, Capa and Taro took powerful photographs of the Spanish Civil...
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City
AuthorPhillip Hoose
ISBN0374306133
The true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.

By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant...
The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found
AuthorMartin W. Sandler
ISBN0763680338
The exciting true story of the captaincy, wreck, and discovery of the Whydah the only pirate ship ever found and the incredible mysteries it revealed.
The 1650s to the 1730s marked the golden age of piracy, when fearsome pirates like Blackbeard ruled the waves, seeking not only treasure but also...
Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II
AuthorAlbert Marrin
ISBN0553509373
On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor comes a harrowing and enlightening look at the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II— from National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin
 
Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would...
First Flight Around the World: The Adventures of the American Fliers Who Won the Race
AuthorTim Grove
ISBN1419714821
A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist
In 1924 the U.S. Army sent eight young men on a bold attempt to be the first to circumnavigate the globe by flight. Men from five other countries—Great Britain, France, Portugal, Italy, and Argentina—had the same goal....
Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America
AuthorGail Jarrow
ISBN1620917386

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens

In March 1900, San Francisco’s health department investigated a strange and horrible death in Chinatown. A man had died of bubonic plague, one of the world’s deadliest diseases. But how...
They Lost Their Heads!: What Happened to Washington's Teeth, Einstein's Brain, and Other Famous Body Parts
AuthorCarlyn Beccia
ISBN0802737455
From the kidnapping of Einstein's brain to the horrifying end of Louis XIV's heart, the mysteries surrounding some of history's most famous body parts range from medical to macabre. Carlyn Beccia explores the misadventures of noteworthy body parts through history and springboards to exploring...
Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend
AuthorKaren Blumenthal
ISBN0147513839
Bonnie and Clyde may be the most notorious--and celebrated--outlaw couple America has ever known. This is the true story of how they got that way.

Bonnie and Clyde: we've been on a first name basis with them for almost a hundred years. Immortalized in movies, songs, and pop culture references,...
Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin
AuthorJames L. Swanson
ISBN0545723337
An astonishing account of the assassination of America's most beloved and celebrated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, by NY Times bestselling author, James L. Swanson.
NAACP Image Award Nominee
Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book...
The March Against Fear
AuthorAnn Bausum
ISBN1426326653
James Meredith's 1966 march in Mississippi began as one man's peaceful protest for voter registration and became one of the South's most important demonstrations of the civil rights movement. It brought together leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael, who formed an unlikely...
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