Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
10 best books like Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot (Sy Montgomery): Secret Coders, The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps, Alma and How She Got Her Name, Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart, Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery, Parrots Over Puerto Rico, Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
| Author | Gene Luen Yang |
| ISBN | 1626720754 |
Welcome to Stately Academy, a school which is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founder of the school left many clues and puzzles to challenge his enterprising students. Using their wits and their growing prowess with coding, Hopper and her friend Eni are going to solve the mystery of Stately...
The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps
| Author | Jeanette Winter |
| ISBN | 0375867740 |
Acclaimed picture book biographer Jeanette Winter has found her perfect subject: Jane Goodall, the great observer of chimpanzees. Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania, invited by brilliant scientist Louis...
Alma and How She Got Her Name
| Author | Juana Martinez-Neal |
| ISBN | 0763693553 |
What's in a name? For one little girl, her very long name tells the vibrant story of where she came from — and who she may one day be.
If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for...
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0375841989 |
From the acclaimed author of The Great and Only Barnum—as well as The Lincolns, Our Eleanor, and Ben Franklin's Almanac—comes the thrilling story of America's most celebrated flyer, Amelia Earhart.
In alternating chapters, Fleming deftly moves readers back and forth between Amelia's...
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
| Author | Kadir Nelson |
| ISBN | 0061730742 |
Kadir Nelson's Heart and Soul is the winner of numerous awards, including the 2012 Coretta Scott King Author Award and Illustrator Honor, and the recipient of five starred reviews.
The story of America and African Americans is a story of hope and inspiration and unwavering courage. This is...
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
| Author | Steve Sheinkin |
| ISBN | 1596434864 |
Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing battle...
| Author | Susan L. Roth |
| ISBN | 1620140047 |
Above the treetops of Puerto Rico flies a flock of parrots as green as their island home. . . . These are Puerto Rican parrots. They lived on this island for millions of years, and then they nearly vanished from the earth forever.
Puerto Rican parrots, once abundant, came perilously close to extinction...
| Author | Barb Rosenstock |
| ISBN | 0316393827 |
The suspenseful, little-known true story of two determined pioneers who made the first dive into the deep ocean.
On June 6, 1930, engineer Otis Barton and explorer Will Beebe dove into the ocean inside a hollow metal ball of their own invention called the Bathysphere.
They knew...
| 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...
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
| Author | Lindsay Mattick |
| ISBN | 0316324906 |
Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie.
In 1914, during World War I, Captain Harry Colebourn, a Canadian veterinarian on his way to serve with cavalry units in Europe, rescued a bear cub in White River, Ontario. He named the bear Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg,...
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0763636118 |
They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for generations of women to follow.
What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape — any checklist would include these. But...
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 1499801033 |
Chosen as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2016, this poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known piece of African American history captures a human’s capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly freedom’s heart.
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