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1-22 of 22 results for All Resources

DK Life Stories: Katherine Johnson

Written by Ebony Joy Wilkins

In this kids' biography, discover the inspiring story of Katherine Johnson, famed NASA...

3rd - 7th

DK Life Stories: Helen Keller

Written by Libby Romero

In this kids' biography, discover the inspiring story of Helen Keller, who overcame the odds by...

3rd - 7th

DK Life Stories: Albert Einstein

Written by Wil Mara

In this kids' biography, follow the remarkable life story of Albert Einstein, whose legendary...

3rd - 7th

DK Life Stories: Martin Luther King Jr.

Written by Laurie Calkhoven

In this kids' biography, discover the amazing story of Martin Luther King Jr., whose powerful words...

3rd - 7th

10 True Tales: Young Civil Rights Heroes

Written by Allan Zullo

This book is a collection of 10 vignettes about the civil rights era. The focus of these stories is...

8th - 12th

This Is Our Constitution: Discover America with a Gold Star Father

Written by Khizr Khan

Our Founding Fathers created the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights as a blueprint for American...

5th - 8th

Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School

Written by Janet Halfmann

Lilly Ann Granderson, who was enslaved, secretly learned to read and write as a child and passed on this dear knowledge to hundreds of other enslaved people despite the great risks.

K - 3rd

Two Miserable Presidents Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You about the Civil War

Written by Steve Sheinkin

That Congressman, Preston Brooks, was ready to attack Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts over...

4th - 8th

Which Way to the Wild West? Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You about Westward Expansion

Written by Steve Sheinkin

With a storyteller's voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting,...

5th - 9th

Code Talker: A Novel About The Navajo Marines Of World War Two

Written by Joseph Bruchac

Told through the eyes of 16-year-old Ned Begay, follow the true story of the Navajo code talkers and their brave contribution to the American war effort during World War II.

7th - 9th

Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness

Written by Donna Janell Bowmen

William "Doc" Key had a special way with animals. Growing up an enslaved child in Tennessee, Doc...

3rd - 6th

Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service

Written by Annette Bay Pimentel

The true story of a Chinese American mountain man who fed thirty people for ten days in the...

1st - 4th

Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America

Written by Tonya Bolden

Sarah Rector was once famously hailed as “the richest black girl in America.” Set against the...

3rd - 7th

Now or Never!—54th Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery

Written by Ray Anthony Shepard

Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War...

5th - 12th

Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty

Written by Michael Burgan

At the turn of the 20th century, photographer Edward S. Curtis devoted his life to learning all he...

5th - 7th

This Land is Our Land: A History of American Immigration

Written by Linda Barrett Osborne

American attitudes toward immigrants are paradoxical. On the one hand, we see our country as a...

7th - 12th

Hey Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band

Written by Anne F. Rockwell

What happened when a former slave took beat-up old instruments and gave them to a bunch of orphans?...

2nd - 5th

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832

Written by Joan W. Blos

A novel about New England between 1830 and 1832, written in the form of a journal by a girl named...

3rd - 7th

That Book Woman

Written by Heather Henson

In the 1930s, the Pack Horse Librarians traveled high up into the Appalachian Mountains to lend...

Pre-K - 3rd

Little House in the Big Woods

Written by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The first in a series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder about pioneer life. The family of Ma, Pa,...

3rd - 7th

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Written by Mildred D. Taylor

The story is about the Logan family, who live in Mississippi during the Depression. The family...

6th - 10th

Lincoln: A Photobiography

Written by Russell Freedman

A biography of Abraham Lincoln told in illustrations and photographs. The book spans Lincoln’s...

5th - 8th

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