The Wildest Race Ever: The Story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon

9 best books like The Wildest Race Ever: The Story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon (Meghan Mccarthy): The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos, Last Stop on Market Street, Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya, Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire, Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing, Two Friends, Just Grace, Star on Stage, Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game, Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos

Author	Deborah Heiligman
ISBN	1596433078

Most people think of mathematicians as solitary, working away in isolation. And, it's true, many of them do. But Paul Erdos never followed the usual path. At the age of four, he could ask you when you were born and then calculate the number of seconds you had been alive in his head. But he didn't learn...

Last Stop on Market Street

Author	Matt de la Pena
ISBN	0399257748

Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal
A 2016 Caldecott Honor Book
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2015
A Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of 2015

Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the...

Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya

Author	Donna Jo Napoli
ISBN	1416935053

“Nelson’s pictures, a jaw-dropping union of African textiles collaged with oil paintings, brilliantly capture the villagers’ clothing and the greening landscape…This is, in a word, stunning.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Nelson’s (We Are the Ship) breathtaking...

Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire

Author	Amy Guglielmo
ISBN	1481461311

Mary Blair lived her life in color: vivid, wild color.

From her imaginative childhood to her career as an illustrator, designer, and animator for Walt Disney Studios, Mary wouldn’t play by the rules. At a time when studios wanted to hire men and think in black and white, Mary painted twinkling...

Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing

Author	Kay Haring
ISBN	0525428194

Iconic pop artist Keith Haring comes to life for young readers in this picture book biography lovingly written by his sister

This one-of-a-kind book explores the life and art of Keith Haring from his childhood through his meteoric rise to fame. It sheds light on this important artist's great...

Two Friends

Author	Dean Robbins
ISBN	0545399963

Some people had rights, while others had none.
Why shouldn't they have them, too?

Two friends, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, get together for tea and conversation. They recount their similar stories fighting to win rights for women and African Americans. The premise of this...

Just Grace, Star on Stage

Author	Charise Mericle Harper
ISBN	0547634129

In a starred review, Booklist called the Just Grace series “hilarious” and said, “Give this to . . . anyone looking for a funny book.” Grace is a curious and well-meaning third-grader who occasionally gets into a little bit of trouble. This time, her class is putting on a play, and Grace is determined...

Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game

Author	David A. Adler
ISBN	0140377794

Adler was born in New York City, New York. He graduated from Queens College in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics and education. For the next nine years, he worked as a mathematics teacher for the New York City Board of Education, while taking classes towards a master's degree in marketing, a degree...

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Author

Carole Boston Weatherford

In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children's literature's top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg's quest to correct history.

Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked.

Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance...