The War to End All Wars: World War I
10 best books like The War to End All Wars: World War I (Russell Freedman): Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot, The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery, Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting, Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary, The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe, Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition, A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis, Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust, They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0618494170 |
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds—the largest and most unusual parrots on earth—have suffered devastating population loss.
Now, on an island refuge with...
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
| Author | Steve Sheinkin |
| ISBN | 1596434864 |
Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing battle...
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 | Elizabeth Partridge |
| ISBN | 0670011894 |
An inspiring look at the fight for the vote, by an award-winning author Only 44 years ago in the U.S., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a fight to win blacks the right to vote. Ground zero for the movement became Selma, Alabama.
Award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge leads you straight...
| Author | Loree Griffin Burns |
| ISBN | 0547152310 |
Without honey bees the world would be a different place. There would be no honey, no beeswax for candles, and, worst of all, barely a fruit, nut, or vegetable to eat. So imagine beekeeper Dave Hackenburg’s horror when he discovered twenty million of his charges had vanished. Those missing bees...
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...
| Author | Matt de la Pena |
| ISBN | 0803731671 |
On the eve of World War II, African American boxer Joe Louis fought German Max Schmeling in a bout that had more at stake than just the world heavyweight title; for much of America their fight came to represent America's war with Germany. This elegant and powerful picture book biography centers around...
| Author | Doreen Rappaport |
| ISBN | 0763629766 |
In a stirring chronicle, Doreen Rappaport brings to light the courage of countless Jews who organized to sabotage the Nazis and help other Jews during the Holocaust.
Under the noses of the military, Georges Loinger smuggles thousands of children out of occupied France into Switzerland....
| 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 | Andrea Warren |
| ISBN | 0547395744 |
Provoked by the horrors he saw every day, Charles Dickens wrote novels that were originally intended as instruments for social change — to save his country’s children.
Charles Dickens is best known for his contributions to the world of literature, but during his young life, Dickens witnessed...
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0375836187 |
The award-winning author of Ben Franklin’s Almanac and Our Eleanor has created an enthralling joint biography of our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, and his complex wife—a scrapbook history that uses photographs, letters, engravings, and even cartoons, along with a fascinating text,...
Black and white : the confrontation of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor
| Author | Larry Dane Brimner |
| ISBN | 1590787668 |
In the 1950s and early 60s, Birmingham, Alabama, became known as Bombingham. At the center of this violent time in the fight for civil rights, and standing at opposite ends, were Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene Bull Connor. From his pulpit, Shuttlesworth agitated for racial equality, while...
| Author | Sally M. Walker |
| ISBN | 0805089454 |
On December 6, 1917 two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. As if that wasn't devastating...
| Author | Nic Bishop |
| ISBN | 0545206340 |
Another fascinating close-up look at the wonders of the natural world from Sibert Honor photographer Nic Bishop.
With breathtaking full-page images, including a double-gatefold spread, Sibert-Honor photographer Nic Bishop introduces the beauty and diversity of lizards.The simple,...
| Author | Albert Marrin |
| ISBN | 0525420770 |
Before global warming, there was dust. In the 1930s, dangerous black storms swept through the Great Plains. Created by drought and reckless farming, these lethal storms were part of an environmental, economic, and human catastrophe that changed the course of American history. In riveting, accessible...
Sir Charlie: Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World
| Author | Sid Fleischman |
| ISBN | 0061896403 |
See him? That little tramp twitching a postage stamp of a mustache, politely lifting his bowler hat, and leaning on a bamboo cane with the confidence of a gentleman? A slapstick comedian, he blazed forth as the brightest movie star in the Hollywood heavens.
Everyone knew Charlie—Charlie...
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 0618574921 |
When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious ceremonies...
Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"
| Author | Michael O. Tunnell |
| ISBN | 1580893376 |
After World War II the United States and Britain airlifted food and supplies into Russian-blockaded West Berlin. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail S. Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. To lift their spirits, he began dropping chocolate and gum by parachute.
Michael O. Tunnell...
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,...
