Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey
10 best books like Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey (Nick Bertozzi): Brain Camp, 47 Ronin, Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood, Houdini: The Handcuff King, Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas, Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, Big Bad Ironclad!, The Underground Abductor (An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman), The Hunting Accident, Alamo All-Stars
| Author | Susan Kim |
| ISBN | 1596433663 |
Neither artistic, dreamy Jenna nor surly, delinquent Lucas expected to find themselves at an invitation-only summer camp that turns problem children into prodigies. And yet, here they both are at Camp Fielding, settling in with all the other losers and misfits who've been shipped off by their parents...
| Author | Mike Richardson |
| ISBN | 1595829547 |
Japan’s enduring national legend comes to comics! The tale of the 47 Ronin and their epic mission to avenge their wronged master epitomizes the samurai code of honor, and creators Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai have done justice to their story! Meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated,...
| Author | Nathan Hale |
| ISBN | 1419708082 |
World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative, and lively,...
Houdini: The Handcuff King
| Author | Jason Lutes |
| ISBN | 0786839023 |
Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so 80 years after his death. This is a snapshot of Houdini's life, centering on one of his most famous jumps. As Houdini prepares for a death-defying leap into the icy Charles River in Boston, biographer Jason...
| Author | Jim Ottaviani |
| ISBN | 1596438657 |
Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology—and...
| Author | Jonathan Fetter-Vorm |
| ISBN | 0809094681 |
Trinity, the debut graphic book by the gifted illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts in vivid detail the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb. This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of invention from the laboratories of nineteenth-century...
| Author | Nathan Hale |
| ISBN | 1419703951 |
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Each of the books in Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales has elements of the strange but true and is presented in an engaging, funny format, highlighting the larger-than-life characters that pop up in real history. Big Bad Ironclad! covers the history...
| Author | Nathan Hale |
| ISBN | 1419715364 |
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...
I reread this in the past couple weeks because the book won yet another award, and I am sharing my review again because I just don't think enough people have read it, and it deserves more attention.
I think I can name four great comics events in this year of 2017 so far, and this is one of them (the others...
“Remember the Alamo!” That rallying cry has been a part of Texas lore for generations. But who were the ragtag group of adventurers behind the famous slogan, and how did they end up barricaded in a fort against a Mexican army? Who survived, who died, and how? This sixth book in the bestselling Hazardous...
| Author | Nathan Hale |
| ISBN | 1419731483 |
The Frenchman who changed the course of the American Revolution.
Gilbert du Motier became the Marquis de Lafayette at a young age, but he was not satisfied with the comforts of French nobility—he wanted adventure!
A captain at eighteen and a major general by nineteen, he was eager...
