Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
10 best books like Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland (Sally M. Walker): Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot, Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary, The War to End All Wars: World War I, Brothers of the Knight, Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon, Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy, The Frog Scientist
| Author | Phillip Hoose |
| ISBN | 0374304688 |
B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It’s time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.
He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists...
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0618494170 |
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds—the largest and most unusual parrots on earth—have suffered devastating population loss.
Now, on an island refuge with...
| Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
| ISBN | 0670011894 |
An inspiring look at the fight for the vote, by an award-winning author Only 44 years ago in the U.S., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a fight to win blacks the right to vote. Ground zero for the movement became Selma, Alabama.
Award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge leads you straight...
| Author | Russell Freedman |
| ISBN | 0547026862 |
Nonfiction master Russell Freedman illuminates for young readers the complex and rarely discussed subject of World War I. The tangled relationships and alliances of many nations, the introduction of modern weaponry, and top-level military decisions that resulted in thousands upon thousands...
| Author | Debbie Allen |
| ISBN | 0142300160 |
Debbie Allen's contemporary retelling of the classic tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses with illustrations from Kadir Nelson!
Reverend Knight can't understand why his twelve sons' sneakers are torn to threads each and every morning, and the boys aren't talking. They know their all-night...
It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off—when a Constitional Amendment banning the sale and consumption...
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0763636118 |
They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for generations of women to follow.
What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape — any checklist would include these. But...
| Author | Catherine Thimmesh |
| ISBN | 0618507574 |
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield...
On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City burst into flames. The factory was crowded. The doors were locked to ensure workers stay inside. One hundred forty-six people—mostly women—perished; it was one of the most lethal workplace fires in American history until...
| Author | Pamela S. Turner |
| ISBN | 0618717161 |
The critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field book about how one boy’s interest in backyard science inspired a career in scientific discovery.
When Tyrone Hayes was growing up in South Carolina, he didn’t worry about pesticides. He just liked to collect frogs. Tyrone’s interest...
This is the story of a killer that has been striking people down for thousands of years: tuberculosis. After centuries of ineffective treatments, the microorganism that causes TB was identified, and the cure was thought to be within reach—but drug-resistant varieties continue to plague and panic...
| Author | Scott Reynolds Nelson |
Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are often lost. Historian Scott Nelson brings John Henry alive for young readers in his personal quest for the true story of the man behind the myth. Nelson...
Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead
| Author | Rebecca L. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0761386335 |
oh my god.
zombies are real, and they are mostly insects. i am not leaving my house, ever. although every summer, there are these tiny little beetles that come and live in my apartment, and i am always really nice to them and set them free out the window, and if they are zombies, i hope to all the higher...
| Author | Caitlin O'Connell |
| ISBN | 0547053444 |
In the sprawling African scrub desert of Etosha National Park, they call her “the mother of all elephants.” Holding binoculars closely to her eyes, American scientist Caitlin O’Connell could not believe what she was seeing from these African elephants: as the mighty matriarch scanned the...
| Author | Jill Rubalcaba |
| ISBN | 1580891640 |
Dig in to the oldest record-keeping system on earth: the human body.
Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw recount the unearthing of four hominins--Turkana Boy, Lapedo Child, Kennewick Man, and Iceman. Each discovery leads not only to deductions that scientists made in laboratories, but...
| Author | Suzanne Tripp Jurmain |
| ISBN | 0618965815 |
Red oozes from the patient's gums. He has a rushing headache and the whites of his eyes look like lemons. He will likely die within days.
Here is the true story of how four Americans and one Cuban tracked down a killer, one of the word's most vicious plagues: yellow fever. Set in fever-stricken...
A powerful picture book biography of one of the abolitionist movement's most compelling voices.
Sojourner Truth traveled the country in the latter half of the 19th century, speaking out against slavery. She told of a slave girl who was sold three times by age 13, who was beaten for not understanding...
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0375841970 |
Discover the true story of P.T. Barnum, the man who created the world-famous Barnum & Bailey Circus, as featured in the movie The Greatest Showman!
The award-winning author of The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary, Amelia Lost, and Our Eleanor brings us the larger-than-life...
| Author | Rick Bowers |
| ISBN | 1426305958 |
The Spies of Mississippi is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Rights era. This book sheds new light on one of the most momentous periods in American history.
Author Rick Bowers has combed through primary-source materials...
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 1426306008 |
What are the secrets of the ancient stone circle? Were the carefully placed stones a burial site, an ancient calendar, a place of Druid worship...or even a site of sacrifice? World-renowned archaeologist Mike Parker-Pearson has spent the last seven years on a quest to answer these and many other questions....
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)
| Author | Sue Macy |
| ISBN | 1426307624 |
Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and songs, Wheels of Change transports young readers to bygone eras to see how women used...
Mission Control, This is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon
| Author | Andrew Chaikin |
| ISBN | 0670011568 |
July 20, 1969, marked one of the climactic moments in our history? The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it is only one piece of a magnificent story. Mission Control, This Is Apollo, by the acclaimed Andrew Chaikin (author of A Man on the Moon, basis of the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon), recounts...
