The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks
10 best books like The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks (Barb Rosenstock): The Undefeated, The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown, Before She Was Harriet, Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom, Mr. Ferris and His Wheel, A Lady Has the Floor: Belva Lockwood Speaks Out for Women's Rights, Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the True Story of an American Feud, America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell, Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing, Freedom in Congo Square
| Author | Kwame Alexander |
| ISBN | 1328780961 |
The Newbery Award-winning author of THE CROSSOVER pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree.
Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma...
The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 0062393448 |
A dazzling picture book biography of Margaret Wise Brown, the legendary author of Goodnight Moon, Runaway Bunny, and other children’s classics, that is as fearless and groundbreaking as the icon herself was—from award-winning, bestselling author Mac Barnett and rising star illustrator Sarah...
| Author | Lesa Cline-Ransome |
| ISBN | 0823420477 |
A lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, written in verse and illustrated by an award-winning artist.
We know her today as Harriet Tubman, but in her lifetime she was called by many names. As General Tubman she was a Union spy. As Moses she led hundreds to freedom on the Underground Railroad....
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
| Author | Shane W. Evans |
| ISBN | 1596435380 |
A family silently crawls along the ground. They run barefoot through unlit woods, sleep beneath bushes, take shelter in a kind stranger's home. Where are they heading? They are heading for Freedom by way of the Underground Railroad.
"A stellar introduction to the Underground Railroad, narrated...
| Author | Kathryn Gibbs Davis |
| ISBN | 0547959222 |
Capturing an engineer’s creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world’s most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel.
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A Lady Has the Floor: Belva Lockwood Speaks Out for Women's Rights
| Author | Kate Hannigan |
| ISBN | 1629794538 |
Unafraid to take to the floor and speak her mind, lawyer, activist, and presidential candidate Belva Lockwood devoted her life to overcoming obstacles and demanding equality for women.
Activist Belva Lockwood never stopped asking herself the question Are women not worth the same as men?...
| Author | Suzanne Tripp Jurmain |
| ISBN | 0525479031 |
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were good friends with very different personalities. But their differing views on how to run the newly created United States turned them into the worst of friends. They each became leaders of opposing political parties, and their rivalry followed them to the White House....
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 1596436948 |
One of School Library Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011
One of Horn Book's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011
On the ten year anniversary of the September 11 tragedy, a straightforward and sensitive book for a generation of readers too young to remember that terrible day.
The...
| Author | Dean Robbins |
| ISBN | 0399551859 |
Margaret Hamilton loved numbers as a young girl. She knew how many miles it was to the moon (and how many back). She loved studying algebra and geometry and calculus and using math to solve problems in the outside world.
Soon math led her to MIT and then to helping NASA put a man on the moon! She handwrote...
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 1499801033 |
Chosen as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2016, this poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known piece of African American history captures a human’s capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly freedom’s heart.
Mondays,...
The Eye That Never Sleeps: How Detective Pinkerton Saved President Lincoln
| Author | Marissa Moss |
| ISBN | 1419730649 |
From award-winning author Marissa Moss comes the first children’s book about Allan Pinkerton, one of America’s greatest detectives. Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln, but few know anything about the spy who saved him! Allan Pinkerton’s life changed when he helped the Chicago Police...
