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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
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Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball

Written by John Coy and Illustrated by Joe Morse
What can you do with a bunch of rowdy college boys in the winter when it’s cold outside? John...
2nd - 6th
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Marching With Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women's Suffrage

Written by Claire Rudolf Murphy and Illustrated by Stacey Schuett
It’s 1896, and women in America don’t have the right to vote in elections. Follow along with one...
1st - 5th
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Days to Celebrate

Written by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Illustrated by Stephen Alcorn
A month-by-month guide to special days of the year. Discover poems recognizing holidays and seasons...
3rd - 7th
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T is for Time

Written by Marie Smith and Roland Smith and Illustrated by Renee Graef
Got a minute? This book introduces an alphabet of scientific history related to telling time. Read...
1st - 5th
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A Single Shard

Written by Linda Sue Park
Set in 12th century Korea, this story centers on Tree-Ear, an orphan being raised by Crane-man in...
5th - 7th
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All-of-a-Kind-Family

Written by Sydney Taylor and Illustrated by Helen John
The story of an immigrant Jewish family living in New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the...
3rd - 7th
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Locomotive

Written and Illustrated by Brian Floca
This exquisitely illustrated book makes trains come to life in sound and color as it tells the...
Pre-K - 5th
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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
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Boy at the Top of the Mountain

Written by Boyne and John
When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his aunt Beatrix...
4th - 6th
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Last Days of Jesus His Life and Times (Revised)

Written by O'Reilly and Bill and Illustrated by Low
Two thousand years ago, Jesus walked across Galilee; everywhere he traveled he gained followers. His...
4th - 9th
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Lincoln and Kennedy A Pair to Compare

Written by Barretta and Gene and Illustrated by Barretta
President Abraham Lincoln grew up in a one-room log cabin. President John F. Kennedy was raised in...
1st - 5th
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16442

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village

Written by Laura Amy Schlitz and Illustrated by Robert Byrd
Go back in time to an English village in 1266, where an interesting array of characters live and...
5th - 9th
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I, Juan de Pareja

Written by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
The story of Juan de Pareja, who was born a slave but became the assistant to the great Spanish...
7th - 12th
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16449

The Midwife's Apprentice

Written by Karen Cushman
Set in medieval England, the book is about Brat, a girl with no home, no family, or no future. That...
5th - 7th
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16512

March: Book One

Written by John Lewis and and Andrew Aydin and Illustrated by Nate Powell

This graphic novel is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil...

- 12th
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March: Book Three

Written by John Lewis and and Andrew Aydin and Illustrated by Nate Powell
By Fall 1963, the Civil Rights Movement is an undeniable keystone of the national conversation, and...
- 12th
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March: Book Two

Written by John Lewis and and Andrew Aydin and Illustrated by Nate Powell
Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement...
- 12th
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Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson’s Flight from Slavery

Written by Winifred Conkling
In 1848, thirteen-year-old Emily Edmonson, five of her siblings, and seventy other enslaved people...
7th - 10th
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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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Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People

Written by S. D. Nelson
Sitting Bull (c. 1831–1890) was one of the greatest Lakota/Sioux warriors and chiefs who ever lived...
3rd - 7th
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The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial

Written by Susan E. Goodman
In 1847, an African American girl named Sarah Roberts attended school in Boston. One day she was...
1st - 4th
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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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The Youngest Marcher

Written by Cynthia Levinson and Illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963...
K - 5th

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