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10 best books like Lafayette and the American Revolution (Russell Freedman): Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story, The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot, Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix, The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe, Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, Parrots Over Puerto Rico, The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, Henry and the Cannons: An Extraordinary True Story of the American Revolution

Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story
AuthorS.D. Nelson
ISBN0810983990
Told from the Native American point of view, Black Elk’s Vision provides a unique perspective on American history.   From recounting the visions Black Elk had as a young boy, to his involvement in the battles of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee, as well as his journeys to New York City and Europe with...
The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors
AuthorChris Barton
A discovery that made the world a brighter place!

Joe and Bob Switzer were very different brothers. Bob was a studious planner who wanted to grow up to be a doctor. Joe dreamed of making his fortune in show business and loved magic tricks and problem-solving.

When an accident left Bob...
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
AuthorSy Montgomery
ISBN0618494170
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds—the largest and most unusual parrots on earth—have suffered devastating population loss.

Now, on an island refuge with...
Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
AuthorGary Golio
ISBN0618852794
Jimi Hendrix was many things: a superstar, a rebel, a hero, an innovator. But first, he was a boy named Jimmy who loved to draw and paint and listen to records. A boy who played air guitar with a broomstick and longed for a real guitar of his own. A boy who asked himself a question: Could someone paint pictures...
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe
AuthorLoree Griffin Burns
ISBN0547152310
Without honey bees the world would be a different place. There would be no honey, no beeswax for candles, and, worst of all, barely a fruit, nut, or vegetable to eat. So imagine beekeeper Dave Hackenburg’s horror when he discovered twenty million of his charges had vanished. Those missing bees...
Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring
AuthorJan Greenberg
ISBN1596433388
A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance

Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer

Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer

Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman

Award-winning...
Parrots Over Puerto Rico
AuthorSusan L. Roth
ISBN1620140047
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...
The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
AuthorPeter Sís
ISBN0374380694
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in France in 1900, when airplanes were just being invented. Antoine dreamed of flying and grew up to be a pilot—and that was when his adventures began. He found a job delivering mail by plane, which had never been done before. He and his fellow pilots traveled to faraway...
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
AuthorTanya Lee Stone
ISBN0763636118
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...
Henry and the Cannons: An Extraordinary True Story of the American Revolution
AuthorDon Brown
ISBN1596432667
Before Washington crossed the Delaware, Henry Knox crossed Massachusetts in winter—with 59 cannons in tow.

In 1775 in the dead of winter, a bookseller named Henry Knox dragged 59 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston—225 miles of lakes, forest, mountains, and few roads. It was a feat...
Lightship
AuthorBrian Floca
ISBN1416924361
You may never have heard of a lightship. Once, lightships anchored on waters across America, on the oceans and in the Great Lakes, floating where lighthouses could not be built. Smaller than most ships, but more steadfast, too, they held their spots, through calm and storm, to guide sailors toward safe...
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
AuthorAnn Bausum
ISBN0792241738
Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders...
The Elephant Scientist
AuthorCaitlin O'Connell
ISBN0547053444
In the sprawling African scrub desert of Etosha National Park, they call her “the mother of all elephants.” Holding binoculars closely to her eyes, American scientist Caitlin O’Connell could not believe what she was seeing from these African elephants: as the mighty matriarch scanned the...
Walt Whitman: Words for America
AuthorBarbara Kerley
ISBN0439357918
The pioneering team that brought you the Caldecott Honor-winning THE DINOSAURS OF WATERHOUSE HAWKINS focuses their remarkable skills and vision on Walt Whitman--poet, American, Civil War hero.

Did you know that poet Walt Whitman was also a Civil War nurse? Devastated by his country dividing...
George vs. George: The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides
AuthorRosalyn Schanzer
ISBN1426300425
There are two sides to every story. Rosalyn Schanzer's engaging and wonderfully illustrated book brings to life both sides of the American Revolution.

The narrative introduces anew the two enemies, both named George: George Washington, the man who freed the American colonies from the British,...
Black and white : the confrontation of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor
AuthorLarry Dane Brimner
ISBN1590787668
In the 1950s and early 60s, Birmingham, Alabama, became known as Bombingham. At the center of this violent time in the fight for civil rights, and standing at opposite ends, were Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene Bull Connor. From his pulpit, Shuttlesworth agitated for racial equality, while...
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
AuthorJim Murphy
ISBN0439691842
Two-time Newbery Honor Book author has written an amazing account of one of America's most famous hoaxes!

When a 10-foot tall purported "petrified man" is unearthed from a backyard in upstate New York in 1869, the discovery immediately turns into a spectacle of epic proportions. News of the...
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...
If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN1426306008
What are the secrets of the ancient stone circle? Were the carefully placed stones a burial site, an ancient calendar, a place of Druid worship...or even a site of sacrifice? World-renowned archaeologist Mike Parker-Pearson has spent the last seven years on a quest to answer these and many other questions....
The Bat Scientists
AuthorMary Kay Carson
ISBN0547199562
Dr. Merlin Tuttle and his colleagues at Bat Conservation International aren't scared of bats. These bat crusaders are fascinated by them, with good reason. Bats fly the night skies in nearly every part of the world, but they are the least studied of all mammals. As the major predator of night-flying...
Lizards
AuthorNic Bishop
ISBN0545206340
Another fascinating close-up look at the wonders of the natural world from Sibert Honor photographer Nic Bishop.

With breathtaking full-page images, including a double-gatefold spread, Sibert-Honor photographer Nic Bishop introduces the beauty and diversity of lizards.The simple,...
Brave Jane Austen: Reader, Writer, Author, Rebel
AuthorLisa Pliscou
ISBN1627796436
A picture-book biography of the English novelist.

Born in the late 1700s, Jane Austen was a smart, creative girl in a house full of boys, all of whom could aspire to accomplish many things as adults while girls were raised primarily to become good wives. Jane didn’t have much opportunity to...
Let Your Voice Be Heard: The Life and Times of Pete Seeger
AuthorAnita Silvey
Pete Seeger, the iconic folk musician and multiple Grammy winner, discovered early in life that what he wanted to do was make music. His amazing career as singer, songwriter, and banjo player spanned seven decades, and included both low points (being charged with contempt of Congress) and highlights...
Years of Dust
AuthorAlbert Marrin
ISBN0525420770
Before global warming, there was dust. In the 1930s, dangerous black storms swept through the Great Plains. Created by drought and reckless farming, these lethal storms were part of an environmental, economic, and human catastrophe that changed the course of American history. In riveting, accessible...
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