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Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football's Make-Or-Break Moment

10 best books like Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football's Make-Or-Break Moment (Carla Killough McClafferty): Moonhead and the Music Machine, Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America, Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality, That's That: A Memoir, Can I See Your I.D.?: True Stories of False Identities, How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning, Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers, Gandhi: a March to the Sea, Where Will I Live?, Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives

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...
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...
That's That: A Memoir
AuthorColin Broderick
ISBN0307716333
How can we know who we are if we do not understand where we came from?
 
Colin Broderick grew up in Northern Ireland during the period of heightened tension and violence known as the Troubles. Broderick's Catholic family lived in County Tyrone --the heart of rebel country. In That’s That,...
Can I See Your I.D.?: True Stories of False Identities
AuthorChris Barton
ISBN0803733100
True crime, desperation, fraud, and adventure: From the impoverished young woman who enchanted nineteenth-century British society as a faux Asian princess, to the sixteen-year-old boy who "stole" a subway train in 1993, to the lonely but clever Frank Abagnale of Catch Me if You Can fame, these ten...
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...
Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers
AuthorSarah E. Warren
ISBN0761461078
I loved this book. It strikes a good balance for kids (and people in general) by not patronizing but also not bogging itself down with too many details or lofty language. Dolores is shown as a dynamic person capable of many different roles -- she is described as a teacher, detective, friend, warrior, organizer,...
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...
Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives
AuthorElizabeth Rusch
ISBN0547503504
“At 11:35 p.m., as Radio Armero played cheerful music, a towering wave of mud and rocks bulldozed through the village, roaring like a squadron of fighter jets.” Twenty-three thousand people died in the 1985 eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz. Today, more than one billion people worldwide...
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...
World War I
AuthorSimon Adams
الكتاب يتحدث عن الحرب العالمية الأولى و وقائعها , مرفقًا بصور أدوات/معدات عسكرية, وعلاجية, بعض الخرائط, ملصقات التعبئة العامة, وصور لجنود من الطرفين, رسائل...
Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution
AuthorMarcus Eriksen
ISBN0807056405
An exciting account of an activist scientist's unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made "junk raft"

News media brought the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"--the famous swirling gyre of plastic pollution...
IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq
AuthorIraqiGirl
ISBN1931859736
This book was brought to my attention by one of my high school students and I can't thank her enough for it. This is a terrific YA book about a young woman who begins a blog about her life in Mosul, Iraq at age 15 in 2004. The topics she covers are the profound and banal, but life isn't very banal when bombs kill...
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
AuthorGretel Ehrlich
ISBN0307907317
A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter...
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II
AuthorMartin W. Sandler
ISBN0802722784
While Americans fought for freedom and democracy abroad, fear and suspicion towards Japanese Americans swept the country after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Culling information from extensive, previously unpublished interviews and oral histories with Japanese American survivors of...
Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty
AuthorRussell Freedman
ISBN0823423743
In 1723 Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless seventeen-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. Sixty-two years later he stepped ashore in nearly the same spot but was greeted by cannons, bells, and a cheering crowd, now a distinguished statesman,...
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
AuthorTanya Lee Stone
ISBN0763651176
They became America’s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II.

World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought...
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...
Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat
AuthorGail Jarrow
ISBN1590787323
One hundred years ago, a mysterious and alarming illness spread across America’s South, striking tens of thousands of victims. No one knew what caused it or how to treat it. People were left weak, disfigured, insane, and in some cases, dead. Award-winning science and history writer Gail Jarrow tracks...
The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
AuthorCharles Lane
ISBN0805083421
The untold story of the slaying of a Southern town’s ex-slaves and a white lawyer’s historic battle to bring the perpretators to justice
 
Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873,...
Our Kind of People: A Continent's Challenge, A Country's Hope
AuthorUzodinma Iweala
ISBN0061284904
In 2005, Uzodinma Iweala stunned readers and critics alike with Beasts of No Nation, his debut novel about child soldiers in West Africa. Now his return to his native continent has produced Our Kind of People, a nonfiction account of the AIDS crisis that is every bit as startling and original.

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