Gingerbread for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution
10 best books like Gingerbread for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution (Mara Rockliff): Before She Was Harriet, Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos, Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles, Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library, Grand Canyon, Noah Webster and His Words, Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the True Story of an American Feud, Balderdash!: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books (Nonfiction Books for Kids, Early Elementary History Books), If I Built a Car
Before She Was Harriet
| Author | Lesa Cline-Ransome |
| ISBN | 0823420477 |
We know her today as Harriet Tubman, but in her lifetime she was called by many names. As General Tubman she was a Union spy. As Moses she led hundreds to freedom on the Underground Railroad....
| Author | Susan Hood |
| ISBN | 1481430955 |
Ada Ríos grew up in Cateura, a small town in Paraguay built on...
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos
| Author | Stephanie Roth Sisson |
| ISBN | 1596439602 |
When Carl Sagan was a young boy he went to the 1939 World's Fair and his life was changed forever. From that day on he never stopped marveling at...
| Author | Patricia Valdez |
| ISBN | 0399557261 |
Back in the days of long skirts and afternoon teas, young Joan Procter entertained the most unusual party guests: slithery and scaly ones, who turned over teacups...
| Author | Barb Rosenstock |
| ISBN | 1590789326 |
| Author | Jason Chin |
| ISBN | 1596439505 |
Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls...
| Author | Jeri Chase Ferris |
| ISBN | 0547390556 |
Webster’s American Dictionary is the second most popular book ever printed in English. But who was that Webster? Noah Webster (1758–1843) was a bookish Connecticut farm boy who became obsessed with uniting America through language. He spent twenty...
| Author | Suzanne Tripp Jurmain |
| ISBN | 0525479031 |
| Author | Michelle Markel |
| ISBN | 0811879224 |
If I Built a Car
| Author | Chris Van Dusen |
| ISBN | 0525474005 |
Young Jack is giving an eye-opening tour of the car he'd like to build. There's a snack bar, a pool, and even a robot named Robert to act as chauffeur. With Jack's soaring imagination in the driver's seat, we're deep-sea...
Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything
| Author | Maira Kalman |
| ISBN | 0399240403 |
Thomas Jefferson is perhaps best known for writing the Declaration of Independence—but there’s so much more to discover. This energetic man was interested...
Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower
| Author | Greg Pizzoli |
| ISBN | 0670016527 |
In the early 1900s, Robert Miller, a.k.a. “Count Victor Lustig,” moved to Paris hoping to be an artist. A con artist, that is. He used his ingenious scams on unsuspecting marks all over the world, from the Czech Republic,...
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
| Author | Katheryn Russell-Brown |
| ISBN | 1600608981 |