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Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

10 best books like Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case (Chris Crowe): Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting, A Wreath for Emmett Till, Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary, Crossing Stones, They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, Cleopatra Rules!: The Amazing Life of the Original Teen Queen, The Day It Snowed Tortillas / El día que nevó tortilla, The Race to Save the Lord God Bird, War Is...: Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War, The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
AuthorJim Murphy
ISBN0545130492
Two-time Newbery Honor Book author Jim Murphy writes a stunning nonfiction masterpiece about a Christmas miracle on the Western Front during World War I.On July 29th 1914, the world's peace was shattered as the artillery of the Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling the troops of the country to its...
A Wreath for Emmett Till
AuthorMarilyn Nelson
ISBN0618397523
In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media...
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary
AuthorElizabeth Partridge
ISBN0670011894
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...
Crossing Stones
AuthorHelen Frost
ISBN0374316538
Maybe you won't rock a cradle, Muriel.
Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat.

Eighteen-year-old Muriel Jorgensen lives on one side of Crabapple Creek. Her family's closest friends, the Normans, live on the other. For as long as Muriel can remember, the families' lives have been intertwined,...
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
AuthorSusan 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...
Cleopatra Rules!: The Amazing Life of the Original Teen Queen
AuthorVicky Alvear Shecter
ISBN1590787188
Good. Evil. Dangerous. Glamorous. Will the real Cleopatra please stand up? Almost everything we know about the last queen of Egypt came from her enemies—the Romans. Now it's time to meet the "real" Cleopatra, a ruler more complex, brilliant, and powerful than we ever knew. Cleopatra didn't just...
The Day It Snowed Tortillas / El día que nevó tortilla
AuthorJoe Hayes
ISBN0938317768
Kids of all ages are always asking Joe Hayes, "How can it snow tortillas?" Well, now they’ll know where to find the answer—at long last, Joe’s signature book The Day It Snowed Tortillas is appearing in this new bilingual edition. Bloomsbury Review listed the original English-only edition as...
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
AuthorPhillip Hoose
ISBN0374361738
The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces...
War Is...: Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN0763636258
In a provocative anthology, two editors with opposing viewpoints present an unflinching collection of works reflecting on the nature of war.

Marc Aronson thinks war is inevitable. Patty Campbell thinks war is cruel, deceptive, and wrong. But both agree on one thing: that teens need to hear...
The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
AuthorTeri Kanefield
ISBN1419707965
 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,...
Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
AuthorAlbert Marrin
On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City burst into flames.  The factory was crowded.  The doors were locked to ensure workers stay inside.  One hundred forty-six people—mostly women—perished; it was one of the most lethal workplace fires in American history until...
Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
AuthorScott Reynolds Nelson
Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are often lost. Historian Scott Nelson brings John Henry alive for young readers in his personal quest for the true story of the man behind the myth. Nelson...
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....
The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students
AuthorSuzanne Tripp Jurmain
ISBN0618473025
They threw rocks and rotten eggs at the school windows. Villagers refused to sell Miss Crandall groceries or let her students attend the town church. Mysteriously, her schoolhouse was set on fire—by whom and how remains a mystery. The town authorities dragged her to jail and put her on trial for breaking...
Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration
AuthorAnn Bausum
ISBN1426303327
With painstaking research, an unerring eye for just the right illustration, and her unique narrative style, award-winning author Ann Bausum makes the history of immigration in America come alive for young people. The story of America has always been shaped by people from all corners of the Earth who...
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
AuthorRussell Freedman
ISBN0823420310
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...
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
AuthorRick Bowers
ISBN1426305958
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...
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...
Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
AuthorSimeon Wright
ISBN1556527837
No modern tragedy has had a greater impact on race relations in America than the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till. A 14-year-old black boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955, Till was taken from his uncle’s home by two white men; several days later, his body was found in the Tallahatchie...
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