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Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95

10 best books like Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 (Phillip Hoose): Hero, Island: A Story of the Galápagos, Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart, Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High, We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, My Book of Life by Angel, Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World, The Underground Abductor (An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman)

Hero
AuthorPerry Moore
ISBN1423101952
The last thing in the world Thom Creed wants is to add to his father's pain, so he keeps secrets. Like that he has special powers. And that he's been asked to join the League - the very organization of superheroes that spurned his dad. But the most painful secret of all is one Thom can barely face himself: he's...
Island: A Story of the Galápagos
AuthorJason Chin
ISBN1596437162
Charles Darwin first visited the Galápagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How did they come to inhabit the island? How long will they remain?
 
Thoroughly researched and filled with intricate...
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN0375841989
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
AuthorKadir Nelson
ISBN0061730742
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...
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
AuthorMelba Pattillo Beals
ISBN0671866397
The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. They ran the gauntlet between a rampaging mob and the heavily armed Arkansas...
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
AuthorCynthia Levinson
ISBN1561456276
We've Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, between May 2 and May 11, 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi's and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s precept to fill the jails, they succeeded...
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...
My Book of Life by Angel
AuthorMartine Leavitt
ISBN0374351236
When sixteen-year-old Angel meets Call at the mall, he buys her meals and says he loves her, and he gives her some candy that makes her feel like she can fly. Pretty soon she's addicted to his candy, and she moves in with him. As a favor, he asks her to hook up with a couple of friends of his, and then a couple more....
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
AuthorSy Montgomery
ISBN0547443153
When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew that she was different. Years later she was diagnosed with autism.
   While Temple’s doctor recommended a hospital, her mother believed in her. Temple went to school instead.
   Today, Dr. Temple Grandin is a scientist and professor...
The Underground Abductor (An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman)
AuthorNathan Hale
ISBN1419715364
Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people. But north of the Mason-Dixon line, slavery was illegal. If she could run away and make it north...
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
AuthorSteve Sheinkin
ISBN0804167443
An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin.

On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty...
The Good Braider
AuthorTerry Farish
ISBN0761462678
In spare free verse laced with unforgettable images, Viola’s strikingly original voice sings out the story of her family's journey from war-torn Sudan, to Cairo, and finally to Portland, Maine. Here, in the sometimes too close embrace of the local Southern Sudanese Community, she dreams of South...
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
AuthorTanya Lee Stone
ISBN0763651176
They became America’s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II.

World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought...
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