Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
10 best books like Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement (Ann Bausum): Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing, Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary, We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March, Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850, Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon, Lightship, Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America, The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement, Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley, Remember: The Journey to School Integration
| Author | James Rumford |
| ISBN | 0618369473 |
The story of Sequoyah is the tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea—to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of readers and writers. The task he set for himself was daunting. Sequoyah knew no English and had no idea how to capture speech on paper....
| 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 | Cynthia Levinson |
| ISBN | 1561456276 |
We've Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, between May 2 and May 11, 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi's and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s precept to fill the jails, they succeeded...
| Author | Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
| ISBN | 0618548831 |
In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people.
Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These years are known today as the Great Irish...
| Author | Catherine Thimmesh |
| ISBN | 0618507574 |
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield...
| Author | Brian Floca |
| ISBN | 1416924361 |
You may never have heard of a lightship. Once, lightships anchored on waters across America, on the oceans and in the Great Lakes, floating where lighthouses could not be built. Smaller than most ships, but more steadfast, too, they held their spots, through calm and storm, to guide sailors toward safe...
| Author | Andrea Davis Pinkney |
| ISBN | 1423142578 |
HAND IN HAND presents the stories of ten men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. The stories are accessible, fully-drawn narratives offering the subjects' childhood influences, the time and place in which they lived,...
| Author | Teri Kanefield |
| ISBN | 1419707965 |
Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on Washington, there was Barbara Rose Johns, a teenager who used nonviolent civil disobedience to draw attention to her cause. In 1951, witnessing the unfair conditions in her racially segregated high school,...
| Author | Sally M. Walker |
| ISBN | 1575058308 |
On February 17, 1864, the H.L. Hunley made history as the first submarine to sink a ship in battle. Soldiers on the shore waited patiently after seeing the submarine's return signal. But after several days, the ship had failed to return. What had gone wrong? In 1995, after over 130 years of searching,...
Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation. These unforgettable images serve as the inspiration for Ms. Morrison’s text—a fictional account of the dialogue and emotions of the children who lived...
| Author | James Cross Giblin |
| ISBN | 0395903718 |
Many people believe Hitler was the personification of evil. In this Sibert Medal-winning biography, James Cross Giblin penetrates this façade and presents a picture of a complex person—at once a brilliant, influential politician and a deeply disturbed man.In a straightforward and nonsensational...
| 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...
| Author | Vicki Cobb |
| ISBN | 0688178405 |
Ever lose your hat in a strong wind?
Ever feel the wind pushing you from side to side?
Know why you can feel the wind, but never see it?
You will! Renowned science author Vicki Cobb makes scientific principles easy for even the youngest kids to understand. Follow this book with a young child...
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0618496416 |
Travel with the scientists as they trek deep into the New Guinea wilderness to locate the elusive Matschie's tree kangaroo.
The photography featured in this book is nothing short of stunning. The full color photographs include both scenic pieces, which
capture the beauty of the...
| Author | Russell Freedman |
| ISBN | 0823420310 |
While we have all most likely learned about the Montgomery Bus Boycott from a textbook while in grade school, this text represents the information in a very engaging manner. The information is factual, but unlike when I read most textbooks, I actually wanted to keep reading this. The text teaches about...
| 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...
As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom
| Author | Richard Michelson |
| ISBN | 0375833358 |
MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel. Their names stand for the quest for justice and equality.
Martin grew up in a loving family in the American South, at a time when this country was plagued by racial discrimination. He aimed to put a stop to it. He became a minister like his daddy,...
Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist
| Author | Jan Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0440419174 |
Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist was named a Robert F. Sibert Honor book by the ALA. This is the enthralling biography of the nineteenth-century Dutch painter known for pioneering new techniques and styles in masterpieces such as Starry Night and Vase with Sunflowers. The book cites detailed...
