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10 best books like William Shakespeare & the Globe (Aliki): Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei, Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare, Dear Benjamin Banneker, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom, George Washington's Teeth, Leonardo's Horse, You Wouldn't Want To Sail On The Titanic!: One Voyage You'd Rather Not Make, If You Traveled West In A Covered Wagon, Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Lincoln Tells a Joke: How Laughter Saved the President (and the Country)

Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei
AuthorPeter Sís
ISBN0374470278
"If they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge." -- Galileo Galilei

In every age there are courageous people who break with tradition to explore new ideas and challenge accepted truths. Galileo Galilei was just such a man--a genius--and the first to turn the telescope to the...
Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare
AuthorDiane Stanley
ISBN0688162940
William Shakespeare was the son of a glovemaker, a small-town boy with a grammar school education. Yet he grew up to become the greatest English-speaking playwright in the world. Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare is both his story and that of a great art rediscovered in the modern world.

Drama...
Dear Benjamin Banneker
AuthorAndrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN0152018921
Throughout his life Banneker was troubled that all blacks were not free. And so, in 1791, he wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who had signed the Declaration of Independence. Banneker attacked the institution of slavery and dared to call Jefferson a hypocrite for owning slaves. Jefferson...
John Brown: His Fight for Freedom
AuthorJohn Hendrix
ISBN0810937980
Published on the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, this biography explores the life of one of American history’s most controversial figures. A great deal of academic study has been published recently about John Brown. This is the first book for young readers to include these...
George Washington's Teeth
AuthorDeborah Chandra
ISBN0374325340
A tongue-in-cheek dental history of our first President

"Poor George had two teeth in his mouth
The day the votes came in.
The people had a President,
But one afraid to grin."

From battling toothaches while fighting the British, to having rotten teeth removed by his dentists,...
Leonardo's Horse
AuthorJean Fritz
ISBN0399235760
"A scintillating sliver of history. . . . An inventive introduction to the Renaissance and one of its masters." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

"An unusual and surprisingly touching story . . . . An offbeat and intriguing read." (The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred...
You Wouldn't Want To Sail On The Titanic!: One Voyage You'd Rather Not Make
AuthorDavid Stewart
ISBN0531186423
A wealth of historical and technical information surrounding the infamous Titanic are presented in an engaging and entertaining format. From the drawing board to the ocean floor, from the captain to the crew, from the wealthiest to the poorest, the Titanic and her history is revealed with humorous...
If You Traveled West In A Covered Wagon
AuthorEllen Levine
ISBN0590451588
This is part of a great series that allow young readers to be given a history book without being too overwhelming. The book focuses on a time period while exploring in detail the particulars such as in this case what it would have like to have traveled West when there were no modern transportation methods...
Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs
AuthorJames Rumford
To a child, the future is a magnificent dream. For Jean-Francois Champollion, the dream was to sail up the Nile in Egypt and uncover the secrets of the past. In 1802, when Champollion was eleven years old, he vowed to be the first person to read Egypt's ancient hieroglyphs. He faced great challenges over...
Lincoln Tells a Joke: How Laughter Saved the President (and the Country)
AuthorKathleen Krull
Poor Abraham Lincoln! His life was hardly fun at all. A country torn in two by war, citizens who didn’t like him as president, a homely appearance—what could there possibly be to laugh about? And yet he did laugh. Lincoln wasn’t just one of our greatest presidents. He was a comic storyteller and...
The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon
AuthorJacqueline Davies
ISBN0618243437
John James Audubon was a boy who loved the out-of-doors more than the in. He was a boy who believed in studying birds in nature, not just from books. And, in the fall of 1804, he was a boy determined to learn if the small birds nesting near his Pennsylvania home really would return the following spring.
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If America Were a Village: A Book about the People of the United States
AuthorDavid J. Smith
ISBN1554533449
America, with all its diversity, is not easily defined. David J. Smith's If America Were a Village takes a snapshot - past, present and future - to help define America for children. Using the same successful metaphor of the international bestseller If the World Were a Village, the book shrinks down America...
Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo Da Vinci
AuthorGene Barretta
ISBN0805087036
In 1781, Thomas Paine came up with a model for a single-span bridge; in 1887, Adolf Eugen Fick made the first pair of contact lenses; and in 1907, Paul Cornu built the first helicopter. But Leonardo da Vinci thought of all these ideas more than five hundred years ago! At once an artist, inventor, engineer,...
The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II
AuthorLouise Borden
ISBN0689808275
Outstanding juvenile historical fiction about the WWII Dunkirk evacuation targeted to 8 - 12 year olds, but a worthy read for grown-ups who like kid fiction and anyone who gets a tear in their eye thinking of all those little boats voluntarily going into the way of grievous harm to rescue allied troops.

The...
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Medieval Knight!: Armor You'd Rather Not Wear
AuthorFiona MacDonald
ISBN0531123537
You (the reader) are the son of a senior servant living in England in the 1400s. Instead of following in your father's footsteps and becoming a servant, you'd much rather become a knight! During your training and as you become a knight, you will discover the tools of the trade, such as your armor, weapons,...
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Jr.
AuthorJean Marzollo
ISBN0439782244
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This book is a beautifully-rendered study of Martin Luther King Jr.'s...
Da Vinci
AuthorMike Venezia
ISBN0516422758
Author/Illustrator Mike Venezia has been getting to know the world's greatest artists for as long as he can remember. A graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mike believes the best way to introduce children to art and artists is through fun. If children can look at art in a fun way, and...
The Secret Cave: Discovering Lascaux
AuthorEmily Arnold McCully
ISBN0374366942
Jacques, Jojo, Simon, and Marcel were looking for buried treasure when they explored a cave in the south of France in 1940. But the treasure inside was not what they expected, and in fact far more valuable: the walls were covered with stunning prehistoric paintings and engravings, preserved within...
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