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Rocks and Minerals (Scholastic Discover More)

Written by Dan Green
A fun, informative book with colorful pictures and interesting facts about rocks and minerals...
5th - 9th

The Diary of a Young Girl

Written by Anne Frank
Anne Frank wrote this diary while her family was in hiding in an attic during the Nazi occupation of...
5th - 8th

Lincoln: A Photobiography

Written by Russell Freedman
A biography of Abraham Lincoln told in illustrations and photographs. The book spans Lincoln’s life...
5th - 8th

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

Written by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick
On October 9th, 2012 young Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban while riding a bus home from...
8th - 11th

Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World

Written by Reshma Saujani
Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani's graphically animated book shows what a huge role computer...
3rd - 12th

Achoo! The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read About Germs

Written by Trudee Romanek and Illustrated by Rose Cowles
In the fifth Mysterious You book, Achoo!, kids probe the secrets of illness and sniff out what germs...
4th - 9th

Rad American Women A-Z Rebels Trailblazers and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future!

Written by Kate Schatz and Illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl
Readers will enjoy colorful and hip potraitures of 26 American women from the 18th through 21st...
3rd - 11th

Unlikely Warrior A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army

Written by Georg Rauch
As a young adult in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the...
7th - 12th

Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History

Written by Karen Blumenthal
In Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History, critically acclaimed author Karen Blumenthal...
7th - 12th

Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women

Written by Cornelia Meigs
Before Louisa May Alcott wrote her iconic and beloved novel, Little Women, she had her own...
6th - 8th

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 history...
5th - 12th

The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

Written by Steve Sheinkin
An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve...
3rd - 9th

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 haven...
7th - 12th

Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961

Written by Larry Dane Brimner
Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961
5th - 12th

Guinness World Records: Fearless Feats

Written by Laurie Calkhoven and Ryan Herndon
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS: FEARLESS FEATS presents the world's most awesome human records. You'll meet...
4th - 9th

Brainstorm!: The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors

Written by Tom Tucker and Illustrated by Richard Loehle
Every year thousands of patents are filed in the United States, some of them by kids. Learn all...
6th - 8th

Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium

Written by Carla Killough McClafferty
Marie Curie's worked on radioactivity changed science forever. Explore the life of one of the most...
5th - 9th

Space Exploration: Science, Technology, Engineering

Written by Will Mara
Find out all about the history of space exploration and the unique skills you need to begin your own...
5th - 8th

Tommy: The Gun That Changed America

Written by Karen Blumenthal
John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would help...
7th - 12th

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

Written by Steve Sheinkin and Illustrated by Tim Robinson
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 and Illustrated by Tim Robinson
With a storyteller's voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting...
5th - 9th

Airplanes

Written by Nancy Robinson Masters
Did you know that a jet engine can be made of as many as 25,000 different parts and that those parts...
4th - 8th

American Bison

Written by Barbara A Somervill
The American bison was hunted to near extinction in the 1800s as settlers moved west across what is...
4th - 8th

Me Llaman Heroe: Recuerdos de Mi Juventud (They Call Me Hero: A Memoir of My Youth)

Written by Daniel Hernandez (author), ‎ Carlos Verdecia (Translator) and ‎ Susan Goldman Rubin (Contributor)
When Daniel Hernandez was twenty years old, he was working as an intern for U.S. Representative...
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