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10 best books like One Giant Leap (Robert Burleigh): Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei, The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors, Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song, Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, 14 Cows for America, Eleanor, Quiet No More, Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map, Mrs. Harkness and the Panda, Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington, Of Numbers and Stars: The Story of Hypatia

Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei
AuthorPeter Sís
ISBN0374470278
"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." -- Galileo Galilei

In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man--a genius--and the first to turn the telescope to the...
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...
Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song
AuthorAndrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN0316070130

They were each born with the gift of gospel.

Martin's voice kept people in their seats, but also sent their praises soaring.
Mahalia's voice was brass-and-butter - strong and smooth at the same time.

With Martin's sermons and Mahalia's songs, folks were free to shout, to...
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
AuthorBrian Floca
Simply told, grandly shown, here is the flight of Apollo 11. Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts, clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats. Here are their great machines in all their detail and monumentality, the...
14 Cows for America
AuthorCarmen Agra Deedy
ISBN1561454907
In June of 2002, a ceremony begins in a village in western Kenya. Hundreds of Maasai surround an American diplomat to bestow a gift on the American people. The gift is as unsought and unexpected as it is extraordinary. A mere nine months have passed since the September 11 attacks, and hearts are raw. Tears...
Eleanor, Quiet No More
AuthorDoreen Rappaport
ISBN0786851414
Eleanor Roosevelt was raised in a privileged but stern Victorian household, with an affectionate but mostly absent father and a critical mother who made fun of her daughter's looks. Alone and lonely for much of her childhood, Eleanor found solace in books and in the life of her lively and independent...
Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map
AuthorSue Macy
ISBN0823421635
Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball, and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart-pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team...
Mrs. Harkness and the Panda
AuthorAlicia Potter
ISBN0375844481
In 1934, Ruth Harkness had never seen a panda bear.  Not many people in the world had.

But soon the young Mrs. Harkness would inherit an expedition from her explorer husband: the hunt for a panda.  She knew that bringing back a panda would be hard. Impossible, even.  But she intended to try.

So...
Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
AuthorJabari Asim
ISBN0316086576
Booker dreamed
of making friends with words,
setting free the secrets
that lived in books.

Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton...
Of Numbers and Stars: The Story of Hypatia
AuthorD. Anne Love
ISBN0823416216
I feel very divided in reviewing this book, and torn between giving it three and four stars.

Things I like: This kid-friendly version of the story of Hypatia, a girl born Alexandria in the fourth century CE in a time when girls are not supposed to study philosophy or mathematics or science. But,...
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
AuthorCatherine Thimmesh
ISBN0618507574
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield...
Roger, the Jolly Pirate
AuthorBrett Helquist
ISBN0064438511
Text-To Teaching
“Roger, The Jolly Pirate” is a whimsical rendition of how pirates formed the noteworthy design of their Skull and Crossbones Flag, every Pirate Ship flew. The teaching connection can be at multiple primary grade levels. The whimsicalness and imaginary story- line are...
Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World
AuthorElizabeth Rusch
ISBN0763658553
Move over, Thomas Edison! Nikola Tesla takes the spotlight in a biography of the man who pioneered modern electrical engineering — and changed the course of history.

When a Serbian boy named Nikola Tesla was three, he stroked his cat and was enchanted by the electrical sparks. By the time...
One Beetle Too Many: The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin
AuthorKathryn Lasky
A lively text and captivating images tell the story of the ever-curious boy who grew up to make one of the most significant discoveries of our time.

From the time Charles Darwin was a boy, he was happiest when he was out alone collecting specimens (especially beetles). And despite his father's...
Tillie the Terrible Swede: How One Woman, a Sewing Needle, and a Bicycle Changed History
AuthorSue Stauffacher
ISBN0375944427
When Tillie Anderson came to America, all she had was a needle. So she got herself a job in a tailor shop and waited for a dream to find her. One day, a man sped by on a bicycle. She was told "bicycles aren't for ladies," but from then on, Tillie dreamed of riding—not graceful figure eights, but speedy, scorching,...
The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up to Slavery
AuthorDennis Brindell Fradin
ISBN0802721664
When John Price took a chance at freedom by crossing the frozen Ohio river from Kentucky into Ohio one January night in 1856, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was fully enforced in every state of the union. But the townspeople of Oberlin, Ohio, believed there that all people deserved to be free, so Price started...
Spiders
AuthorNic Bishop
ISBN0439877563
Spiders are creepy, crawly and scary, but Nic Bishop’s book, Spiders, still makes you want to know more. The amazing pictures grab your attention and keep you turning the page even if it turns your stomach. He manages to find many unusual subjects and photograph them up close so you can see the smallest...
The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According To Susy)
AuthorBarbara Kerley
ISBN0545125081
From the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor-winning team behind WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALICE?, a humorous and intimate portrait of the most celebrated writer in America, as told by his thirteen-year-old daughter.
"This is a frank biographer and an honest one; she uses no sandpaper on me." - Mark Twain

An...
America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell
AuthorDon Brown
ISBN1596436948
One of School Library Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011
One of Horn Book's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011

On the ten year anniversary of the September 11 tragedy, a straightforward and sensitive book for a generation of readers too young to remember that terrible day.

The...
Earth to Clunk
AuthorPam Smallcomb
ISBN0803734395
What do you send your alien pen pal Clunk to make it clear you do not want an alien pen pal? You send him your big sister. That'll teach Clunk to have a pen pal from Earth-or so our intrepid narrator thinks. But then Clunk sends him a Zoid, an exasperating Zoid that follows him everywhere. After swapping dirty...
Just a Second
AuthorSteve Jenkins
ISBN0618708960
What can happen in just a second,
a minute, or an hour? How can we measure time?
The flap of a vulture’s wing.
A crocodile’s heartbeat.
The weight of a baby blue whale.
The life of a mayfly.
These increments of time may sound a bit strange, but they are all fascinating ways...
Aliens Are Coming!: The True Account of the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast
AuthorMeghan Mccarthy
ISBN0375835180
It was an ordinary night in October of 1938 until a news bulletin interrupted the dance music on "CBS" radio-aliens were invading the United States!
Meghan McCarthy's hilarious "Aliens Are Coming!" tells the true story of the Halloween radio prank that duped much of the country into believing...
If You Decide to Go to the Moon
AuthorFaith McNulty
ISBN0590483595
Two artists at the height of their powers have created a beautiful book with an unforgettable message about the moon and an even more important message about the earth. A publishing event!

"If you decide to go to the moon," writes Faith McNulty, "read this book first. It will tell you how to get...
Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle
AuthorBrian Dennis
Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs's life changed when he met Marine Major Brian Dennis.
The two formed a fast friendship, made stronger by Dennis's willingness to share his meals,...
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