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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

10 best books like The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (Steve Sheinkin): Piecing Me Together, The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam, Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines, We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March, They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

Piecing Me Together
AuthorRenée Watson
A timely and powerful story about a teen girl from a poor neighborhood striving for success, from acclaimed author Renée Watson.

Jade believes she must get out of her neighborhood if she’s ever going to succeed. Her mother says she has to take every opportunity. She has. She accepted a scholarship...
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN0375867821
Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming (Amelia Lost; The Lincolns)...
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
AuthorPhillip Hoose
ISBN0374304688
B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It’s time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.
He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists...
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
AuthorG. Neri
ISBN1584302674
In August of 1994, 11-year-old Robert “Yummy” Sandifer — nicknamed for his love of sweets — fired a gun at a group of rival gangmembers, accidentally killing a neighborhood girl, Shavon Dean. Police searched Chicago’s southside for three days before finding Yummy dead in a railway tunnel,...
Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
AuthorElizabeth Partridge
ISBN0142423750
In March 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops into Vietnam. 57,939 American soldiers would be killed and seventeen years would pass before this controversial chapter of American history concluded with the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982.

The history of this...
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines
AuthorPaul Fleischman
ISBN0763671029
Paul Fleischman offers teens an environmental wake-up call and a tool kit for decoding the barrage of conflicting information confronting them.

We're living in an Ah-Ha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The result: a population and lifestyle never before...
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
AuthorCynthia Levinson
ISBN1561456276
We've Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, between May 2 and May 11, 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi's and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s precept to fill the jails, they succeeded...
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...
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
AuthorNeal Bascomb
ISBN0545430992
The story of Eichmann's capture is now a major motion picture starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley, Operation Finale!

In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen...
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN0060504048
"Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..."

Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book bag; children...
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...
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
AuthorTanya Lee Stone
ISBN0763651176
They became America’s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II.

World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought...
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