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The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial

10 best books like The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial (Susan E. Goodman): Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Trombone Shorty, Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Goin' Someplace Special, A Ball for Daisy, Wolf in the Snow, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, Giant Squid, Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
AuthorKevin Henkes
ISBN0688128971
Lilly loves everything about school, especially her cool teacher, Mr. Slinger. But when Lilly brings her purple plastic purse and its treasures to school and can't wait until sharing time, Mr. Slinger confiscates her prized possessions. Lilly's fury leads to revenge and then to remorse and she sets...
Trombone Shorty
AuthorTroy Andrews
ISBN1419714651
Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading his own band by age six, and today this Grammy-nominated artist headlines the legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest.
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Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
AuthorBrian Floca
Simply told, grandly shown, here is the flight of Apollo 11. Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts, clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats. Here are their great machines in all their detail and monumentality, the...
Goin' Someplace Special
AuthorPatricia C. McKissack
ISBN0689818858
'Tricia Ann is going to her favorite place in the world today. It's the first time she's been allowed to go there all by herself. In a lovely dress that looks like spring, she leaves the house. Her grandmother cautions her to "hold yo' head up and act like you b'long to somebody."



But holding...
A Ball for Daisy
AuthorChris Raschka
Winner of the 2012 Randolph Caldecott Medal

This New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Best Illustrated Book relates a story about love and loss as only Chris Rashcka can tell it. Any child who has ever had a beloved toy break will relate to Daisy's anguish when her favorite ball is destroyed...
Wolf in the Snow
AuthorMatthew Cordell
ISBN1250076366
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A little girl is leaving school for the day and has to endure a really bad snowstorm on the way home. As she begins her journey, she stumbles upon a wolf pack and a little wolf cub that appears...
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
ISBN0763665312
A stirring collection of poems and spirituals, accompanied by stunning collage illustrations, recollects the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a champion of equal voting rights.

"I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."

Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within...
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
AuthorJavaka Steptoe
ISBN0316213888
Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw...
Giant Squid
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN1596435992
The giant squid is one of the most elusive creatures in the world. As large as whales, they hide beyond reach deep within the sea, forcing scientists to piece together their story from those clues they leave behind.

An injured whale's ring-shaped scars indicate an encounter with a giant squid....
Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama
AuthorHester Bass
ISBN0763669199
Explore a little-known story of the Civil Rights movement, in which black and white citizens in one Alabama city worked together nonviolently to end segregation.

Mention the Civil Rights era in Alabama, and most people recall images of terrible violence. But something different was happening...
Steamboat School
AuthorDeborah Hopkinson
ISBN1423121961
Missouri, 1847

When James first started school, his sister practically had to drag him there. The classroom was dark and dreary, and James knew everything outside was more exciting than anything he'd find inside.

But his teacher taught him otherwise.

"We make our own light...
The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage
AuthorSelina Alko
ISBN0545478537
For most children these days it would come as a great shock to know that before 1967, they could not marry a person of a race different from their own. That was the year that the Supreme Court issued its decision in Loving v. Virginia.

This is the story of one brave family: Mildred Loving, Richard...
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
AuthorDon Tate
ISBN1561458252
It seemed rather poignant that I read this book. With the last few months showing that sadly racism has not died I thought it important to introduce my son to dark time in our history...Slavery. I doubt that my son will ever understand white privilege (sadly most white people don't). But I'm happy to say...
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
AuthorDebbie Levy
ISBN1481465597
Get to know celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—in the first picture book about her life—as she proves that disagreeing does not make you disagreeable!

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing: disagreeing with inequality, arguing...
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