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The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle: And Other Surprising Stories about Inventions

Written by Don L. Wulffson
What's the story behind some of your favorite inventions? From sundaes to Mickey Mouse, learn the...
3rd - 7th
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The Television (Tales of Invention)

Written by Louise and Richard Spilsbury
Learn all about the key people and discoveries behind the invention of the television.
3rd - 5th
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Dolphin Talk: Whistles, Clicks, And Clapping Jaws

Written by Wendy Pfeffer and Illustrated by Helen K. Davie
Learn all about the ways dolphins can communicate with eachother in the sea.
K - 3rd
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Girls Think Of Everything: Stories Of Ingenious Inventions By Women

Written by Catherine Thimmesh and Illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Check out some of the coolest inventions created by women and girls and see what inspired their...
5th - 7th
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Technology: A Byte-Sized World! (Basher Science)

Written by Simon Basher and Dan Green and Illustrated by Simon Basher
Discover the secrets behind the computer technology that dominates our modern world, from the...
4th - 7th
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A Place for Butterflies

Written by Melissa Stewart and Illustrated by Higgins Bond
This fact-filled, colorful book looks at the amazing world of butterflies. Melissa Stewart shares...
1st - 3rd
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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
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Tikki Tikki Tembo (Spanish Edition)

Written by Arlene Mosel
An illustrated Chinese folk tale describes how the Chinese came to give all their children short...
Pre-K - 3rd
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16516

Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution

Written by Gretchen Woelfle and Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War...
4th - 7th
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Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty

Written by Tonya Bolden
Published on the anniversary of when President Abraham Lincoln’s order went into effect, this book...
3rd - 7th
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Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

Written by Susan Goldman Rubin
An award-winning author offers a riveting account of the civil rights crusade in Mississippi 50...
4th - 6th
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Hey Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band

Written by Anne F. Rockwell and Illustrated by Colin Bootman
What happened when a former slave took beat-up old instruments and gave them to a bunch of orphans...
2nd - 5th
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Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service

Written by Annette Bay Pimentel and Illustrated by Rich Lo
The true story of a Chinese American mountain man who fed thirty people for ten days in the...
1st - 4th
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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
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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Written by Carole Boston Weatherford and Illustrated by Eric Velasquez
Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican...
4th - 7th
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16525

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
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16521

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
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16511

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

Written by Donna Janell Bowmen and Illustrated by Daniel Minter
William "Doc" Key had a special way with animals. Growing up an enslaved child in Tennessee, Doc was...
3rd - 6th
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16518

The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch

Written by JohnRoy and Illustrated by Don Tate
John Roy Lynch spent most of his childhood as a slave in Mississippi, but all of that changed with...
2nd - 3rd
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The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

Written by Teri Kanefield
Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on...
3rd - 7th
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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
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16515

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
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Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961

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

Written by Elizabeth Janet Gray and Illustrated by Robert Lawson

Adam, aged 11, loves to travel with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his dog, Nick. They travel...

3rd - 7th

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