Sergeant Reckless: The True Story of the Little Horse Who Became a Hero
10 best books like Sergeant Reckless: The True Story of the Little Horse Who Became a Hero (Patricia McCormick): Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind, Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968, Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story, Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles (Children's Story Books, Sea Turtle Gifts, Moon Books for Kids, Children's Environment Books, Kid's Turtle Books), Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain, Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere, Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines, Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing, Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles
A touching story about Japanese American children who corresponded with their beloved librarian while they were imprisoned in World War II internment camps.
When Executive Order 9066 is enacted after the attack at Pearl Harbor, children's librarian Clara Breed's young Japanese American...
| Author | Alice Faye Duncan |
| ISBN | 1629797189 |
This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest.
In...
| Author | Marc Tyler Nobleman |
An Orbis Pictus Honor Book for Outstanding Nonfiction 2019
In this important and moving true story of reconciliation after war, beautifully illustrated in watercolor, a Japanese pilot bombs the continental U.S. during WWII—the only enemy ever to do so—and comes back 20 years later...
"Delivers an eloquent environmental message while demonstrating how kids can change the world through teamwork and perseverance." — School Library Journal
A triumphant story of environmental activism, community, and friendship: Acclaimed activist Philippe Cousteau and renowned...
| Author | Susan Hood |
| ISBN | 1481430955 |
From award-winning author Susan Hood and illustrator Sally Wern Comport comes the extraordinary true tale of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, an orchestra made up of children playing instruments built from recycled trash.
Ada Ríos grew up in Cateura, a small town in Paraguay built on...
| Author | Cheryl Bardoe |
| ISBN | 0316394289 |
The true story of eighteenth-century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to achieve her dream.
When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math...nothing stopped Sophie. When a professor discovered that the homework sent to him...
| Author | Barb Rosenstock |
| ISBN | 0316393827 |
The suspenseful, little-known true story of two determined pioneers who made the first dive into the deep ocean.
On June 6, 1930, engineer Otis Barton and explorer Will Beebe dove into the ocean inside a hollow metal ball of their own invention called the Bathysphere.
They knew...
| Author | Jeanne Walker Harvey |
As a child, Maya Lin loved to study the spaces around her. She explored the forest in her backyard, observing woodland creatures, and used her house as a model to build tiny towns out of paper and scraps. The daughter of a clay artist and a poet, Maya grew up with art and learned to think with her hands as well...
| Author | Kay Haring |
| ISBN | 0525428194 |
Iconic pop artist Keith Haring comes to life for young readers in this picture book biography lovingly written by his sister
This one-of-a-kind book explores the life and art of Keith Haring from his childhood through his meteoric rise to fame. It sheds light on this important artist's great...
| Author | Mara Rockliff |
| ISBN | 0763678937 |
The author of Mesmerized delivers another fascinating glimpse into history, this time the story of two brave suffragists on a trek across America to spread the word: Votes for Women!
In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on...
| Author | Jonah Winter |
| ISBN | 0385390289 |
An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family’s tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
As Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes a “long haul...
| Author | Robert Burleigh |
| ISBN | 1481416006 |
Filled with gorgeous illustrations by acclaimed artist Raúl Colón, this illustrated biography shares the story of female scientist, Marie Tharp, a pioneering woman scientist and the first person to ever successfully map the ocean floor.
Marie Tharp was always fascinated by the ocean....
| Author | Jason Chin |
| ISBN | 1596439505 |
Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon.
Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls...
| Author | Charles R. Smith Jr. |
| ISBN | 1596438207 |
Each day features a different influential figure in African-American history, from Crispus Attucks, the first man shot in the Boston Massacre, sparking the Revolutionary War, to Madame C. J. Walker, who after years of adversity became the wealthiest black woman in the country, as well as one of the...
Boldness, imagination, and ruthless competition combine in Tanya Lee Stone and Steven Salerno's Pass Go and Collect $200, a riveting picture book history of Monopoly, one of the world's most famous games.
In the late 1800s lived Lizzie Magie, a clever and charismatic woman with a strong sense...
| Author | Matt Tavares |
| ISBN | 0763668230 |
Applaud Matt Tavares’s latest feat — a gripping tale of real-life daredevilry perfectly balanced by stunning illustrations.
"Monsieur Blondin is to cross Niagara Falls this afternoon, or perish in the attempt." — Troy Daily Times, June 30, 1859
When the Great Blondin announced...
| Author | Michelle Markel |
| ISBN | 0811879224 |
This rollicking and fascinating picture book biography chronicles the life of the first pioneer of children's books—John Newbery himself. While most children's books in the 18th century contained lessons and rules, John Newbery imagined them overflowing with entertaining stories, science,...
| Author | Donna Janell Bowman |
| ISBN | 1620141485 |
William -Doc- Key had a special way with animals. Growing up enslaved in Tennessee, Doc was sent to plantations around the state to care for sick and wounded animals. When the Civil War ended and Doc was freed, he began to dream of breeding a winning racehorse. But those dreams were dashed when his colt...
This book is stunning. The gorgeous cover caught my attention while I was cataloging it, and I had to pause to read through. I can't decide which element of it is the best (that's a lie, it's obviously the spectacular illustrations)—but the subject itself is fascinating, and even the author's and illustrator's...
| Author | Barry Wittenstein |
| ISBN | 1632895579 |
A young couple meet and marry. Josephine is prone to accidents and getting cuts. Her husband, Earle, has a father that is a doctor and Earle works in medical supplies. You know what happens next: Earle creates the Band-Aid.
This is the evolution of what we now know as our go to bandage. They even...
| Author | Katherine Roy |
| ISBN | 1626721785 |
The savanna is not an easy place to live, even for African elephants, the largest land animals on earth. If it's a challenge for these 7,000-pound giants, what's it like for their newborn babies?
An infant elephant has precious little time to learn the incredible array of skills that are necessary...
| Author | Margarita Engle |
| ISBN | 0805098763 |
Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot—the Latinos featured in this collection come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds. Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a collective history and a community that continues to evolve and thrive...
So it took me a bit to catch that the title had nothing to do with spots on the animals, rather than the frequency of spotting (seeing) them. Admittedly, I figured it out on the first page, but still. Or maybe the subtitle (The coolest creatures you've never heard of) gave it away when I finally had the book...
| Author | Pat Miller |
| ISBN | 0544319613 |
In 1843, fourteen-year-old Hanson Gregory left his family home in Rockport, Maine, and set sail as a cabin boy on the schooner Achorn, looking for high-stakes adventure on the high seas. Little did he know that a boatload of hungry sailors, coupled with his knack for creative problem-solving, would...
