Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story
10 best books like Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story (Marc Tyler Nobleman): Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery, Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind, Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, Gingerbread for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution, Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain, The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs: The Story of Ken Nedimyer and the Coral Restoration Foundation (Environmental Science for Kids, The Environment and You for Kids, Conservation for Kids), Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere, Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines, Elizabeth Started All the Trouble, Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code
| Author | Sandra Neil Wallace |
| ISBN | 1481443879 |
When Ernie Barnes was growing up in North Carolina in the 1940s, he loved to draw....
| Author | Cynthia Grady |
When Executive Order 9066 is enacted after the attack at Pearl Harbor, children's librarian Clara Breed's young Japanese American...
| Author | Margot Lee Shetterly |
| ISBN | 0062742469 |
They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a...
| Author | Mara Rockliff |
| ISBN | 0544130014 |
Cheerfully...
| Author | Cheryl Bardoe |
| ISBN | 0316394289 |
When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math...nothing stopped Sophie. When a professor discovered that the homework sent to him...
| Author | Kate Messner |
| ISBN | 1452133506 |
One coral gamete to start a colony
One person to make a difference
One idea to change the world
The ongoing efforts to save and rebuild the world's coral reefs--with hammer and glue, and grafts of newly grown coral--are the living legacy of Ken Nedimyer.
Kate...
| Author | Barb Rosenstock |
| ISBN | 0316393827 |
On June 6, 1930, engineer Otis Barton and explorer Will Beebe dove into the ocean inside a hollow metal ball of their own invention called the Bathysphere.
They knew...
| Author | Jeanne Walker Harvey |
| Author | Doreen Rappaport |
| ISBN | 0786851422 |
She couldn't become a politician.
She couldn't even vote.
But Elizabeth Cady Stanton didn't let that stop her.
She called on women across the nation to stand together and demand to be treated as equal to men-and that included the right...
| Author | Laurie Wallmark |
Who was Grace Hopper? A software tester, workplace jester, cherished mentor, ace inventor,...
| Author | Patricia McCormick |
| ISBN | 0062292595 |
When a group of US Marines fighting in the Korean War found a bedraggled mare, they wondered if she could be trained to as a packhorse. They had no idea that the skinny, underfed horse had one of the biggest and bravest...
| Author | Shana Corey |
New York City in the 1860s was a mess: crowded, disgusting, filled with garbage. You see, way back in 1860, there were no subways,...
| Author | Loree Griffin Burns |
| ISBN | 0761393420 |
On a farm in Costa Rica, workers care for these delicate, winged creatures as they change from eggs to caterpillars to pupae. Like any...
| Author | Jason Chin |
| ISBN | 1596439505 |
Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls...
| Author | Jonah Winter |
| ISBN | 1481469134 |
At a former boy’s school in the remote desert of New Mexico, the world’s greatest scientists...
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
In the late 1800s lived Lizzie Magie, a clever and charismatic woman with a strong sense...
| Author | Matt Tavares |
| ISBN | 0763668230 |
"Monsieur Blondin is to cross Niagara Falls this afternoon, or perish in the attempt." — Troy Daily Times, June 30, 1859
When the Great Blondin announced...
| Author | Chris Barton |
| Author | Barry Wittenstein |
| ISBN | 1632895579 |
This is the evolution of what we now know as our go to bandage. They even...
| Author | Jane Kurtz |
| ISBN | 1481479865 |
There are so many different kinds of animals at the zoo, and they each make lots and lots (and sometimes LOTS!) of poo. So what do zoos do with all of that poo? This zany, fact-filled romp explores zoo poo, from...
| Author | Susan E. Goodman |
| ISBN | 0802737390 |
Sarah deserved an equal education, and the Roberts family fought for change. They made...
| Author | Melissa Stewart |
| ISBN | 1481458523 |
Can an aardvark bark? No, but it can grunt. Lots of other animals grunt too…
Barks, grunts, squeals—animals make all kinds of...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1452162816 |
She's in New York.
She's holding a torch.
And she's in mid-stride, moving forward.
But why?
In this fascinating, fun take on nonfiction, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris...