Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
10 best books like Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy (Albert Marrin): Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart, Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary, The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe, Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition, The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure, They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London, Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein
| Author | Phillip Hoose |
| ISBN | 0374304688 |
B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It’s time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.
He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists...
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0375841989 |
From the acclaimed author of The Great and Only Barnum—as well as The Lincolns, Our Eleanor, and Ben Franklin's Almanac—comes the thrilling story of America's most celebrated flyer, Amelia Earhart.
In alternating chapters, Fleming deftly moves readers back and forth between Amelia's...
| Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
| ISBN | 0670011894 |
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...
| Author | Loree Griffin Burns |
| ISBN | 0547152310 |
Without honey bees the world would be a different place. There would be no honey, no beeswax for candles, and, worst of all, barely a fruit, nut, or vegetable to eat. So imagine beekeeper Dave Hackenburg’s horror when he discovered twenty million of his charges had vanished. Those missing bees...
It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off—when a Constitional Amendment banning the sale and consumption...
| Author | Martin W. Sandler |
| ISBN | 0763650803 |
Whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative in 1897. In that particular year, winter came early, bringing with it storms and ice packs that caught eight American whale ships and about three hundred sailors off guard. The ships were imprisoned in ice with no hope...
| Author | Susan 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...
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0763636118 |
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...
| Author | Andrea Warren |
| ISBN | 0547395744 |
Provoked by the horrors he saw every day, Charles Dickens wrote novels that were originally intended as instruments for social change — to save his country’s children.
Charles Dickens is best known for his contributions to the world of literature, but during his young life, Dickens witnessed...
| Author | Susan Goldman Rubin |
| ISBN | 1580893449 |
This biography of American composer, pianist, and conductor Leonard Bernstein takes readers from his childhood in Boston to his spectacular professional conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1943. Illustrated with archival photographs, mostly from the Leonard Bernstein Collection...
This is the story of a killer that has been striking people down for thousands of years: tuberculosis. After centuries of ineffective treatments, the microorganism that causes TB was identified, and the cure was thought to be within reach—but drug-resistant varieties continue to plague and panic...
| Author | Caitlin O'Connell |
| ISBN | 0547053444 |
In the sprawling African scrub desert of Etosha National Park, they call her “the mother of all elephants.” Holding binoculars closely to her eyes, American scientist Caitlin O’Connell could not believe what she was seeing from these African elephants: as the mighty matriarch scanned the...
Black and white : the confrontation of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor
| Author | Larry Dane Brimner |
| ISBN | 1590787668 |
In the 1950s and early 60s, Birmingham, Alabama, became known as Bombingham. At the center of this violent time in the fight for civil rights, and standing at opposite ends, were Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene Bull Connor. From his pulpit, Shuttlesworth agitated for racial equality, while...
| Author | Rick Bowers |
| ISBN | 1426305958 |
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...
| Author | Sally M. Walker |
| ISBN | 0805089454 |
On December 6, 1917 two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. As if that wasn't devastating...
| Author | Stephanie Sammartino McPherson |
Approaching its one-hundredth anniversary in 2012, the 1912 tragedy of the sinking of theTitanic still looms large in the public imagination, as attested by numerous books, films, and exhibitions. Through a straightforward account of events both before and after the largest ship in the world hit...
| Author | Russell Freedman |
| ISBN | 0547903782 |
Angel Island, off the coast of California, was the port of entry for Asian immigrants to the United States between 1892 and 1940. Following the passage of legislation requiring the screening of immigrants, "the other Ellis Island" processed around one million people from Japan, China, and Korea....
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
| Author | Sue Macy |
| ISBN | 1426307624 |
Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and songs, Wheels of Change transports young readers to bygone eras to see how women used...
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 0618574921 |
When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies...
