The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum
10 best books like The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum (Candace Fleming): An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland, Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting, Picnic, Lightning, Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition, Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0395776082 |
1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown . . .
Jim Murphy describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on the city's residents, relating the epidemic to the major social...
| Author | Sally M. Walker |
| ISBN | 0822571358 |
Bright white teeth. Straight leg bones. Awkwardly contorted arm bones. On a hot summer day in 2005, Dr. Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution peered into an excavated grave, carefully examining the fragile skeleton that had been buried there for four hundred years. "He was about fifteen years...
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0545130492 |
Two-time Newbery Honor Book author Jim Murphy writes a stunning nonfiction masterpiece about a Christmas miracle on the Western Front during World War I.On July 29th 1914, the world's peace was shattered as the artillery of the Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling the troops of the country to its...
| Author | Billy Collins |
| ISBN | 0822956705 |
Winner of the 1999 Paterson Poetry Prize
Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad...
It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off—when a Constitional Amendment banning the sale and consumption...
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
| Author | Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
| ISBN | 0544313674 |
What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged?
With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial...
| Author | Phillip Hoose |
| ISBN | 0374313229 |
“When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.’” – Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white...
| Author | Susan 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...
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0763636118 |
They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for generations of women to follow.
What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape — any checklist would include these. But...
The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0670011878 |
During her unparalleled fifty-year history, Barbie has been the doll that some people love-and some people love to hate. There's no question she's influenced generations, but to what end? Acclaimed nonfiction author Tanya Lee Stone takes an unbiased look at how Barbie became the icon that she is,...
It’s 1968, and war is not foreign to seventeen-year-old Ashe. His dogmatic, racist father married his passionate peace-activist mother when she became pregnant with him, and ever since, the couple—like the situation in Vietnam—has been engaged in a senseless war that could have been prevented.
With...
| Author | Patricia Brennan Demuth |
| ISBN | 0448484072 |
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Up until then the Allied forces had suffered serious defeats, yet D -Day, as the invasion was called, spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and the...
