Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber
10 best books like Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber (Sue Macy): The Undefeated, The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown, Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq, City Dog, Country Frog, Z Is for Moose, Viva Frida, Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems, Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
The Undefeated
| Author | Kwame Alexander |
| ISBN | 1328780961 |
Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma...
The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 0062393448 |
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
| Author | Ellen Levine |
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 | Susan Hood |
| ISBN | 1481430955 |
Ada Ríos grew up in Cateura, a small town in Paraguay built on...
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
| Author | Jeanette Winter |
| ISBN | 0152054456 |
--Alia Muhammad Baker
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along...
City Dog, Country Frog
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1423103009 |
In spring, when City Dog runs free in the country for the first time, he spots Country Frog sitting on a rock, waiting for a friend. "You'll do," Frog says, and together they play Country Frog games. In summer, they meet again and play City Dog games. Through the seasons, whenever City Dog visits the...
Z Is for Moose
| Author | Kelly Bingham |
| ISBN | 0060799846 |
Viva Frida
| Author | Yuyi Morales |
| ISBN | 1596436034 |
A 2015 Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award
Frida Kahlo, one of the world's most famous and unusual artists is revered around the world. Her life was filled with laughter, love, and tragedy, all of which influenced what she painted on her canvases.
Distinguished...
| Author | Bob Raczka |
| ISBN | 1626722366 |
Concrete poetry is a perennially popular poetic form because they are fun to look at. But by using the arrangement of the words on the page to convey the meaning of the poem, concrete or shape poems...
| Author | Chris Barton |
| ISBN | 1580892973 |
You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top twenty toys of all time. And it was invented entirely by accident. Trying to create a new cooling system for refrigerators and air conditioners, impressive inventor Lonnie Johnson instead created the mechanics for the...
| Author | Michelle Markel |
| ISBN | 0811879224 |
| Author | Jen Bryant |
| ISBN | 0449813371 |
Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to...
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
| Author | Debbie Levy |
| ISBN | 1481465597 |
Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing: disagreeing with inequality, arguing...