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Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball

10 best books like Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball (John Coy): Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery, Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909, The Good Egg, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, May B., Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution, The House That Jane Built: A Story about Jane Addams, Saved by the Boats: The Heroic Sea Evacuation of September 11, For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai's Story

Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery
AuthorSandra Neil Wallace
ISBN1481443879
Discover the true story of NFL star Ernie Barnes—a boy who followed his dreams and became one of the most influential artists of his generations—with this beautifully illustrated nonfiction picture book.

When Ernie Barnes was growing up in North Carolina in the 1940s, he loved to draw....
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
AuthorMargot Lee Shetterly
ISBN0062742469
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really good.

They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a...
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
AuthorMichelle Markel
ISBN0061804428
When Clara Lemlich arrived in America, she couldn't speak English. She didn't know that young women had to go to work, that they traded an education for long hours of labor, that she was expected to grow up fast.

But that did not stop Clara.

She went to night school, spent hours studying...
The Good Egg
AuthorJory John
ISBN0062866001
In this follow-up to Jory John and Pete Oswald’s popular picture book The Bad Seed, meet the next best thing: a very good egg, indeed!

The good egg has been good for as long as he can remember. While the other eggs in his carton are kind of rotten, he always does the right, kind, and courteous thing....
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
ISBN0763665312
A stirring collection of poems and spirituals, accompanied by stunning collage illustrations, recollects the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a champion of equal voting rights.

"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."

Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within...
May B.
AuthorCaroline Starr Rose
I’ve known it since last night:
It’s been too long to expect them to return.
Something’s happened.

May is helping out on a neighbor’s Kansas prairie homestead—just until Christmas, says Pa. She wants to contribute, but it’s hard to be separated from her family by 15 long,...
Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution
AuthorAvi
ISBN1442414413
Lives hang in the balance in this gripping Revolutionary War adventure from a beloved Newbery Medalist.

In 1776, young Sophia Calderwood witnesses the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, which is newly occupied by the British army. Sophia is horrified by the event and resolves to do...
The House That Jane Built: A Story about Jane Addams
AuthorTanya Lee Stone
ISBN0805090495
I really admire Jane Addams. For a semester in college (in-between majoring in English literature and psychology) I took classes in sociology and studied her in depth. I either learned more from this book, or more likely relearned some of what I learned back then. She was a remarkable woman.

This...
Saved by the Boats: The Heroic Sea Evacuation of September 11
AuthorJulie Gassman
ISBN1515702758
September 11, 2001 was a black day in U.S. history. Amid the chaos, sea captains and crews raced by boat to the tragic Manhattan scene. Nearly 500,000 people on Manhattan Island were rescued that day in what would later be called the largest sea evacuation in history. In this rarely told story of heroism,...
For the Right to Learn: Malala Yousafzai's Story
AuthorRebecca Langston-George
One of the most important, meaningful and courageous stories of bravery and equality of our times.
Everyone should know who Malala is and now through this book, children of younger ages can learn and appreciate her tremendous, honorable and valuable work, and her incredible story.


For...
Her Right Foot
AuthorDave Eggers
ISBN1452162816
If you had to name a statue, any statue, odds are good you'd mention the Statue of Liberty. Have you seen her?

She's in New York.
She's holding a torch.
And she's in mid-stride, moving forward.
But why?
In this fascinating, fun take on nonfiction, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris...
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg's quest to correct history.

Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked.

Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance...
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