Irena's Jars of Secrets
10 best books like Irena's Jars of Secrets (Marcia K. Vaughan): Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving, Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II, Anne Frank, What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?, Her Right Foot, The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark, A Picture Book of Anne Frank, Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto
| Author | Laurie Halse Anderson |
We the people of the United States... Almost Lost Thanksgiving Yes. That's right! Way back when "skirts were long and hats were tall" Americans were forgetting Thanksgiving, and nobody seemed to care! Thankfully, Sarah Hale appeared. More steadfast than Plymouth Rock, this lady editor knew the holiday...
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.
Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream...
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 0763665312 |
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...
| Author | Lita Judge |
| ISBN | 1423100085 |
If not for the photos, etc. I might have put this book on my historical fiction shelf, but I think the account is sufficiently accurate to have it belong on my non-fiction shelf. The author-illustrator dedicated this book to her mother and grandmother, which is fitting. Judge found a box of foot tracings...
| Author | Josephine Poole |
| ISBN | 0375832424 |
The life of Anne Frank, from birth until being taken from the hidden attic by the Nazis, is presented in this haunting, meticulously researched picture book. It is a compelling yet easy-to-understand "first" introduction to the Holocaust as witnessed by Anne and her family. The stunningly evocative...
When Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the "Corp of Discovery" left St. Louis, Missouri, on May 21, 1804, their mission was to explore the vast, unknown territory acquired a year earlier in the Louisiana Purchase. The travelers hoped to find a waterway that crossed the western half of the United...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1452162816 |
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...
The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark
| Author | Carmen Agra Deedy |
| ISBN | 1561452084 |
Without the yellow star to point them out, the Jews looked like any other Danes.
For centuries, the Star of David was a symbol of Jewish pride. But during World War II, Nazis used the star to segregate and terrorize the Jewish people. Except in Denmark. When Nazi soldiers occupied his country, King...
A Picture Book of Anne Frank
| Author | David A. Adler |
| ISBN | 0823410781 |
A thoughtful and accessible look at the life of Anne Frank, author of Diary of a Young Girl and victim of the Holocaust.
Anne and her Jewish family hid in a secret apartment in Amsterdam from 1942 through 1944, when they were discovered by the Nazis. During those harrowing years, Anne kept a diary...
Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto
| Author | Susan Goldman Rubin |
| ISBN | 0823422518 |
Irena Sendler was a diminutive Polish social worker who helped spirit more than four hundred children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Using toolboxes, ambulances, and other ingenious measures, Irena Sendler defied the Nazis and risked her own life by saving and then hiding Jewish children....
Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage
| Author | Tilar J. Mazzeo |
| ISBN | 1481449915 |
The story of Irena Sendler the female Oskar Schindler who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II now adapted for a younger audience.
Irena Sendler was a young Polish woman living in Warsaw during World War II. Irena smuggled...
