The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History

7 best books like The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History (Adam Selzer): No Judgments, I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, They Called Us Enemy, Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam, Key Lime Pie Murder, Chasing Lincoln's Killer, Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

No Judgments

Author	Meg Cabot
ISBN	0062890034

The storm of the century is about to hit Little Bridge Island, Florida—and it’s sending waves crashing through Sabrina “Bree” Beckham’s love life…

When a massive hurricane severs all power and cell service to Little Bridge Island—as well as its connection to the mainland—twenty-five-year-old...

I'm Not Dying with You Tonight

Author	Kimberly Jones
ISBN	1492678899

Lena and Campbell aren't friends.

Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan. She knows she's going to make it big. Campbell, on the other hand, is just trying to keep her head down and get through the year at her new school.

When both girls attend the Friday-night football...

They Called Us Enemy

Author	George Takei
ISBN	1603094504

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.

Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...

Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam

Author	Elizabeth Partridge
ISBN	0142423750

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...

Key Lime Pie Murder

Author	Joanne Fluke
ISBN	0758210183

The yummy [ninth] smalltown cozy from Fluke (after 2006's Cherry Cheesecake Murder) finds sometime sleuth Hannah Swensen, owner of the Cookie Jar in Lake Eden, Minn., judging the baking contest at the Tri-County Fair.

When one of her fellow judges, home economics teacher Willa Sunquist,...

Chasing Lincoln's Killer

Author	James L. Swanson
ISBN	0545204704

Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C.,...

Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Author	Russell Freedman
ISBN	0823420310

While we have all most likely learned about the Montgomery Bus Boycott from a textbook while in grade school, this text represents the information in a very engaging manner. The information is factual, but unlike when I read most textbooks, I actually wanted to keep reading this. The text teaches about...