Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration

6 best books like Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration (Shelley Tougas): Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March, Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear, Illegal, The Geography of Childhood, Poems

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Author

Chris Grabenstein

A New York Times Bestseller

Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids, (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero, Luigi Lemoncello, the most notorious and creative gamemaker in the world, just so happens...

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March

Author	Lynda Blackmon Lowery
ISBN	0803741235

A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes

As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed nine times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside...

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,...

Illegal

Author

Eoin Colfer

This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorious colour artwork throughout. From Eoin Colfer, previously Irish Children's Laureate, and the team behind his bestselling Artemis Fowl graphic novels. Ebo: alone.His...

The Geography of Childhood

Author	Gary Paul Nabhan
ISBN	0807085251

In this unique collaboration, naturalists Gary Nabhan and Stephen Trimble investigate how children come to care deeply about the natural world. They ask searching questions about what may happen to children denied exposure to wild places - a reality for more children today than at any time in human...

Poems

Author	Maya Angelou
ISBN	0553255762

Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness,  sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and  celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In  this moving volume of poetry, we hear the  multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and  vibrant writers of our time..