Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley
10 best books like Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley (Sally M. Walker): An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing, The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot, We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America, The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850, Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0395776082 |
1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown . . .
Jim Murphy describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on the city's residents, relating the epidemic to the major social...
| Author | James Rumford |
| ISBN | 0618369473 |
The story of Sequoyah is the tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea—to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of readers and writers. The task he set for himself was daunting. Sequoyah knew no English and had no idea how to capture speech on paper....
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...
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0618494170 |
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds—the largest and most unusual parrots on earth—have suffered devastating population loss.
Now, on an island refuge with...
| Author | Kadir Nelson |
| ISBN | 0786808322 |
Rube Foster was the founder of the Negro National League. Said he of his men, "We are the ship: all else the sea." As long as there has been baseball in America there have been African-American ballplayers. Men like Sol White and Bud Fowler. Before Rube Foster, however, there was no organized professional...
Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0590673092 |
This book is targeted at the YA market, so it isn't a super in depth history. Actually, that's one of the big pluses for me. Murphy seems to have covered everything I want to know & he did in a way that made me feel it. He included a lot of personal accounts & wrapped up with the effects that this storm...
| Author | Russell Freedman |
| ISBN | 0618159762 |
"A voice like yours," celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini told contralto Marian Anderson, "is heard once in a hundred years." This insightful account of the great African American vocalist considers her life and musical career in the context of the history of civil rights in this country. Drawing...
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0763636118 |
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...
| Author | Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
| ISBN | 0618548831 |
In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people.
Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These years are known today as the Great Irish...
| Author | Catherine Thimmesh |
| ISBN | 0618507574 |
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...
| Author | Brian Floca |
| ISBN | 1416924361 |
You may never have heard of a lightship. Once, lightships anchored on waters across America, on the oceans and in the Great Lakes, floating where lighthouses could not be built. Smaller than most ships, but more steadfast, too, they held their spots, through calm and storm, to guide sailors toward safe...
| Author | Ann Bausum |
| ISBN | 0792241738 |
Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders...
The Skull in the Rock: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 1426310102 |
From the fossil hunter who discovered the Homo naledi fossils in September 2015, this book is an amazing account of Lee Berger’s 2008 hunt -- with the help of his curious 9-year-old son -- for a previously unknown species of ape-like creatures that may have been direct ancestors of modern humans. The...
| Author | James Cross Giblin |
| ISBN | 0395903718 |
Many people believe Hitler was the personification of evil. In this Sibert Medal-winning biography, James Cross Giblin penetrates this façade and presents a picture of a complex person—at once a brilliant, influential politician and a deeply disturbed man.In a straightforward and nonsensational...
| Author | Nic Bishop |
| ISBN | 0439877563 |
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...
| Author | Louise Borden |
| ISBN | 0689864620 |
When Bessie Coleman was a child, she wanted to be in school -- not in the cotton fields of Texas, helping her family earn money. She wanted to be somebody significant in the world. So Bessie did everything she could to learn under the most challenging of circumstances. At the end of every day in the fields...
| Author | Samantha Seiple |
| ISBN | 0545708974 |
Lincoln's Spymaster tells the dangerous and action-packed adventures of Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye and Lincoln's most trusted spymaster.
Pinkerton was just a poor immigrant barrel-maker in Illinois when he stumbled across his first case just miles from his home. His reputation...
| Author | Dorothy Hinshaw Patent |
| ISBN | 0802728464 |
When the news of the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound broke, the SEAL team member that stole the show was a highly trained canine companion. Throughout history, dogs have been key contributors to military units. Dorothy Hinshaw Patent follows man's best friend onto the battlefield, showing readers...
As Good as Anybody: Martin Luther King and Abraham Joshua Heschel's Amazing March Toward Freedom
| Author | Richard Michelson |
| ISBN | 0375833358 |
MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel. Their names stand for the quest for justice and equality.
Martin grew up in a loving family in the American South, at a time when this country was plagued by racial discrimination. He aimed to put a stop to it. He became a minister like his daddy,...
