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Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement

10 best books like Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement (Rick Bowers): The Running Dream, Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler, Crow, They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961, Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy, It Came From Ohio: My Life As A Writer, Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"

The Running Dream
AuthorWendelin Van Draanen
ISBN0375866671
An award-winning and inspiring novel.  When Jessica's dreams are shattered, she puts herself back together—and learns to dream bigger than ever before.

Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's not comforted by the news that she'll be able to walk with...
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
AuthorDusti Bowling
ISBN1454923458
Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing...
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
AuthorTrenton Lee Stewart
ISBN0316057800
The fearsome foursome is back in the second installment of the New York Times bestselling series praised by Rick Riordan!
The Mysterious Benedict Society is up against a new mission, significantly closer to home. After reuniting for a celebratory scavenger hunt, Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance...
The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
AuthorJohn Hendrix
ISBN1419728385
Interweaving handwritten text and art, John Hendrix tells the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his fight against the oppression of the German people during World War II. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was shocked to watch the German church embrace Hitler's agenda of hatred....
Crow
AuthorBarbara Wright
ISBN0375969284
The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's...
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
AuthorSusan Campbell Bartoletti
"Boys, let us get up a club."With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend’s mansion in 1866. They pulled white sheets over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee. Soon, the six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan and began...
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
AuthorLarry Dane Brimner
ISBN1629795860
On May 4, 1961, a group of thirteen black and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Ride, aiming to challenge the practice of segregation on buses and at bus terminal facilities in the South. The Ride would last twelve days. Despite the fact that segregation on buses crossing state lines...
Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
AuthorAlbert Marrin
On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City burst into flames.  The factory was crowded.  The doors were locked to ensure workers stay inside.  One hundred forty-six people—mostly women—perished; it was one of the most lethal workplace fires in American history until...
It Came From Ohio: My Life As A Writer
AuthorR.L. Stine
ISBN0590939440
4.5 stars. R.L. Stine is one of my favourite writers, and so when I heard about this book I just knew I had to have it.

The book isn't written by R.L. Stine, but by a ghostwriter/a friend of his. On the one hand I wasn't entirely happy about it when I found out, but as I started reading I didn't mind it...
Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"
AuthorMichael O. Tunnell
ISBN1580893376
After World War II the United States and Britain airlifted food and supplies into Russian-blockaded West Berlin. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail S. Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. To lift their spirits, he began dropping chocolate and gum by parachute.

Michael O. Tunnell...
House Arrest
AuthorK.A. Holt
ISBN1452134774
Stealing is bad.
Yeah.
I know.
But my brother Levi is always so sick, and his medicine is always so expensive.

I didn’t think anyone would notice,
if I took that credit card,
if, in one stolen second,
I bought Levi’s medicine.

But someone did notice.
Now...
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