Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote

9 best books like Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote (Susan Zimet): The Night Diary, The Season of Styx Malone, Lifeboat 12, Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam, Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin, Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and the War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America, Finding Langston, Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish, Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice

The Night Diary

Author	Veera Hiranandani
ISBN	0735228515

It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders.

Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't...

The Season of Styx Malone

Author	Kekla Magoon
ISBN	1524715956

Caleb Franklin and his big brother Bobby Gene have the whole summer for adventures in the woods behind their house in Sutton, Indiana. Caleb dreams of venturing beyond their ordinary small town, but his dad likes the family to stay close to home.

Then Caleb and Bobby Gene meet new neighbor Styx...

Lifeboat 12

Author

Susan Hood

In the tradition of The War That Saved My Life and Stella By Starlight, this poignant novel in verse based on true events tells the story of a boy’s harrowing experience on a lifeboat after surviving a torpedo attack during World War II.

With Nazis bombing London every night, it’s time for...

Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam

Author	Elizabeth Partridge
ISBN	0142423750

In March 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops into Vietnam. 57,939 American soldiers would be killed and seventeen years would pass before this controversial chapter of American history concluded with the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982.

The history of this...

Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin

Author	James L. Swanson
ISBN	0545723337

An astonishing account of the assassination of America's most beloved and celebrated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, by NY Times bestselling author, James L. Swanson.
NAACP Image Award Nominee
Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book...

Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and the War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America

Author	Gail Jarrow
ISBN	1629797766

Gail Jarrow explores the famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast from 1938. She highlights the artists behind the broadcast, the broadcast itself, the aftermath, and the repercussions which remain relevant today.

On the night of October 30, 1938, thousands of Americans panicked when they...

Finding Langston

Author	Lesa Cline-Ransome
ISBN	0823439607

In a debut historical novel about the Great Migration a boy discovers Chicago's postwar South Side and the poetry of Langston Hughes.

When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known as the Great...

Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish

Author

Pablo Cartaya

Marcus Vega is six feet tall, 180 pounds, and the owner of a premature mustache. When you look like this and you're only in the eighth grade, you're both a threat and a target. Marcus knows what classmates and teachers see when they look at him: a monster.

But appearances are deceiving. At home,...

Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice

Author	Bryan Stevenson
ISBN	0525635920

The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy --soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime Foxx, and Brie Larson and now the subject of an HBO documentary feature!

In this very personal work--adapted from the original...