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Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass

10 best books like Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass (Lesa Cline-Ransome): Dreamers, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré, Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, Let the Children March, A Seed Is Sleepy, Pink and Say, Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code, The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon, Balderdash!: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books (Nonfiction Books for Kids, Early Elementary History Books)

Dreamers
AuthorYuyi Morales
ISBN0823440559
Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story in this picture-book tribute to the transformative power of hope . . . and reading.

In 1994, Yuyi Morales left her home in Xalapa, Mexico and came to the US with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed.

She...
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
AuthorMac Barnett
ISBN0763662291
With perfect pacing, the multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling team of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen dig down for a deadpan tale full of visual humor.

Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find . . . nothing....
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
AuthorAnika Aldamuy Denise
ISBN0062748688
Follow la vida y legado of Pura Belpré, the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City.

When she came to America in 1921, Pura carried the cuentos folklóricos of her Puerto Rican homeland. Finding a new home at the New York Public Library as a bilingual assistant, she turned her popular stories...
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
AuthorEllen Levine
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.

Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream...
Let the Children March
AuthorMonica Clark-Robinson
ISBN0544704525
I couldn't play on the same playground as the white kids. 
I couldn't go to their schools.  
I couldn't drink from their water fountains.  
There were so many things I couldn't do. 

In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to...
A Seed Is Sleepy
AuthorDianna Hutts Aston
ISBN0811855201
The illustrations are glorious. They’re also accurate and very educational. This is an outstanding science book about seeds and the plants that come from them. The text is convincing about just how amazing seeds are. At first I didn’t like the adjective headings, but I quickly changed my mind because...
Pink and Say
AuthorPatricia Polacco
ISBN0399226710
3.5 stars. Such a sad story. As you might expect from a Patricia Polacco book, this is uplifting and gives you hope in human nature and it is heartbreakingly sad and makes you despair too.

The American Civil war is something I know very little about, this gives you a taste of what it was like for young...
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code
AuthorLaurie Wallmark
“If you’ve got a good idea, and you know it’s going to work, go ahead and do it.” The picture book biography of Grace Hopper—the boundary-breaking woman who revolutionized computer science.

Who was Grace Hopper? A software tester, workplace jester, cherished mentor, ace inventor,...
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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Balderdash!: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books (Nonfiction Books for Kids, Early Elementary History Books)
AuthorMichelle Markel
ISBN0811879224
This rollicking and fascinating picture book biography chronicles the life of the first pioneer of children's books—John Newbery himself. While most children's books in the 18th century contained lessons and rules, John Newbery imagined them overflowing with entertaining stories, science,...
The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse
AuthorMac Barnett
After reading a delightful and positive review here I couldn't resist picking up this book. I love children's stories with animals and nature and am a huge fan of wolves and stories featuring mice. The duck was not so important but hey, the duck turned out to be the key player in this story so...

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Malala pour le droit des filles à l'éducation
AuthorRaphaële Frier
ISBN9782355043
Malala Yousafzai est pakistanaise et musulmane. Depuis l’âge de onze ans, elle dénonce les intégristes musulmans qui considèrent que l’école, ce n’est pas pour les filles. Pour tenter de la faire taire, ils ont même tiré sur elle. Par bonheur, Malala est toujours debout. Aujourd’hui...
Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope
AuthorNikki Grimes
ISBN1416971440
Barack Obama is the story of an exceptional man, as told by Nikki Grimes and illustrated by Bryan Collier, winners of the Coretta Scott King Award.

Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia...
The Other Side
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0399231161
Clover's mom says it isn't safe to cross the fence that segregates their African-American side of town from the white side where Anna lives. But the two girls strike up a friendship, and get around the grown-ups' rules by sitting on top of the fence together.

With the addition of a brand-new author's...
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