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10 best books like Those Rebels, John & Tom (Barbara Kerley): The Beetle Book, Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team, Here Come the Girl Scouts!: The Amazing All-True Story of Juliette 'Daisy' Gordon Low and Her Great Adventure, Mrs. Harkness and the Panda, Looking at Lincoln, The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks, It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw, Henry and the Cannons: An Extraordinary True Story of the American Revolution, Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words

The Beetle Book
AuthorSteve Jenkins
ISBN0547680848
Beetles squeak and beetles glow.
Beetles stink, beetles sprint, beetles walk on water.
With legs, antennae, horns, beautiful shells, knobs, and other oddities—what’s not
to like about beetles?
The beetle world is vast: one out of every four living things on earth is a beetle.
There...
Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle
AuthorClaire A. Nivola
ISBN0374380686
Sylvia Earle first lost her heart to the ocean as a young girl when she discovered the wonders of the Gulf of Mexico in her backyard. As an adult, she dives even deeper. Whether she's designing submersibles, swimming with the whales, or taking deep-water walks, Sylvia Earle has dedicated her life to learning...
Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team
AuthorAudrey Vernick
ISBN0547385579
The Acerra family had sixteen children, including twelve ball-playing boys. It was the
1930s, and many families had lots of kids. But only one had enough to field a baseball
team . . . with three on the bench! The Acerras were the longest-playing all-brother
team in baseball history. They...
Here Come the Girl Scouts!: The Amazing All-True Story of Juliette 'Daisy' Gordon Low and Her Great Adventure
AuthorShana Corey
ISBN0545342783
The amazing, all-true story of the first Girl Scouts and their visionary founder.

Juliette Gordon Low--Daisy to her friends and family--was not like most girls of the Victorian era.

Prim and proper?

BOSH!

Dainty and delicate?

HOW BORING!

She...
Mrs. Harkness and the Panda
AuthorAlicia Potter
ISBN0375844481
In 1934, Ruth Harkness had never seen a panda bear.  Not many people in the world had.

But soon the young Mrs. Harkness would inherit an expedition from her explorer husband: the hunt for a panda.  She knew that bringing back a panda would be hard. Impossible, even.  But she intended to try.

So...
Looking at Lincoln
AuthorMaira Kalman
Abraham Lincoln is one of the first giants of history children are introduced to, and now Maira Kalman brings him to life with her trademark style and enthusiasm. Lincoln's legacy is everywhere - there he is on your penny and five-dollar bill. And we are still the United States because Lincoln helped...
The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks
AuthorBarb Rosenstock
ISBN0803737106
Caldecott medalist Mordicai Gerstein captures the majestic redwoods of Yosemite in this little-known but important story from our nation's history. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt joined naturalist John Muir on a trip to Yosemite. Camping by themselves in the uncharted woods, the two men...
It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
AuthorDon Tate
ISBN1600602606
Growing up as an enslaved boy on an Alabama cotton farm, Bill Traylor worked all day in the hot fields. When slavery ended, Bill's family stayed on the farm as sharecroppers. There Bill grew to manhood, raised his own family, and cared for the land and his animals.

By 1935 Bill was eighty-one and...
Henry and the Cannons: An Extraordinary True Story of the American Revolution
AuthorDon Brown
ISBN1596432667
Before Washington crossed the Delaware, Henry Knox crossed Massachusetts in winter—with 59 cannons in tow.

In 1775 in the dead of winter, a bookseller named Henry Knox dragged 59 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston—225 miles of lakes, forest, mountains, and few roads. It was a feat...
Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words
AuthorLeda Schubert
ISBN1596435291
Marcel Marceau, the world's most famous mime, enthralled audiences around the world for more than fifty years. When he waved his hand or lifted his eyebrow he was able to speak volumes without ever saying a word. But few know the story of the man behind those gestures . . .  Distinguished author Leda Schubert...
Barnum's Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World
AuthorTracey E. Fern
ISBN0374305161
Barnum Brown's (1873-1963) parents named him after the circus icon P.T. Barnum, hoping that he would do something extraordinary--and he did! As a paleonotologist for the American Museum of Natural History, he discovered the first documented skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as most...
The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up to Slavery
AuthorDennis Brindell Fradin
ISBN0802721664
When John Price took a chance at freedom by crossing the frozen Ohio river from Kentucky into Ohio one January night in 1856, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was fully enforced in every state of the union. But the townspeople of Oberlin, Ohio, believed there that all people deserved to be free, so Price started...
Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
AuthorRobert Byrd
ISBN0803737491
In this informative book all about the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin, author Robert Byrd uses text and vibrant art to show the many ways Ben Franklin contributed to American history. He was a printer, writer, publisher, inventor, and founding Father of the new American nation. Most...
Noah Webster and His Words
AuthorJeri Chase Ferris
ISBN0547390556
Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction

Webster’s American Dictionary is the second most popular book ever printed in English. But who was that Webster? Noah Webster (1758–1843) was a bookish Connecticut farm boy who became obsessed with uniting America through language. He spent twenty...
Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass
AuthorLesa Cline-Ransome
ISBN1416959033
The inspirational, true story of how Frederick Douglass found his way to freedom one word at a time.

This picture book biography chronicles the youth of Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent African American figures in American history. Douglass spent his life advocating for the...
Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the True Story of an American Feud
AuthorSuzanne Tripp Jurmain
ISBN0525479031
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were good friends with very different personalities. But their differing views on how to run the newly created United States turned them into the worst of friends. They each became leaders of opposing political parties, and their rivalry followed them to the White House....
Snakes
AuthorNic Bishop
ISBN0545206383
YIKES!!! Join naturalist Nic Bishop for a closer look at scaly, scary snakes!

Snakes are scaly, scary, silent predators. They use powerful venom or crushing strength to overwhelm their victims. Then they swallow them whole!

With breathtaking full-page images, Sibert Medal-winning...
Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution
AuthorLaurie Halse Anderson
ISBN0689858086
Listen up! You've all heard about the great men who led and fought during the American Revolution; but did you know that the guys only make up part of the story? What about the women? The girls? The dames? Didn't they play a part?

Of course they did, and with page after page of superbly researched...
A Boy Called Dickens
AuthorDeborah Hopkinson
ISBN0375867325
For years Dickens kept the story of his own childhood a secret. Yet it is a story worth telling. For it helps us remember how much we all might lose when a child's dreams don't come true . . . As a child, Dickens was forced to live on his own and work long hours in a rat-infested blacking factory. Readers will...
The President's Stuck in the Bathtub: Poems About the Presidents
AuthorSusan Katz
Playful political poems about the penchants and peccadilloes of the presidents!Sure, William Taft got stuck in his tub, but did you know that John Quincy Adams used to skinny-dip in the Potomac? Herbert Hoover spoke Chinese with his wife, and Gerald Ford had his name changed from Leslie Lynch King....
Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of John "Appleseed" Chapman
AuthorEsmé Raji Codell
ISBN0061455156
His real name was John Chapman.
He grew apples.

But wait. So what?
Why should we remember him
and read about him
and think about him
and talk about him today,
more than two hundred years after he was born?
Why should we call him a hero?

Esme Raji Codell and...
Helen's Big World: The Life of Helen Keller (Big Words)
AuthorDoreen Rappaport
This picturebook biography is an excellent and accessible introduction for young readers to learn about one of the world's most influential luminaries. With her signature style of prose laced with stirring quotes, Doreen Rappaport brings to life Helen Keller's poignant narrative. Acclaimed illustrator...
Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness
AuthorDonna Janell Bowman
ISBN1620141485
William -Doc- Key had a special way with animals. Growing up enslaved in Tennessee, Doc was sent to plantations around the state to care for sick and wounded animals. When the Civil War ended and Doc was freed, he began to dream of breeding a winning racehorse. But those dreams were dashed when his colt...
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