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1-24 of 163 results for "american history"
Written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
As they fix up their new house, Herbie and his sister discover how many things that we use every day were designed by black inventors. Individual biographies accompany each invention.
3rd - 7th
Written by Kelly Starling Lyons
This book is about a young boy named Tosh who helps his aging grandmother remember the family...
K - 3rd
Written by Monica Edinger
Magulu is only nine years old when she is taken by slave traders and brought to the Americas. She...
5th - 7th
Written by Kelly Starling Lyons
Written to commemorate the Emancipation Proclamation, this is the story of a little girl, her...
1st - 3rd
Written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Will Allen is no ordinary farmer. A former basketball star, he's as tall as his truck, and he can...
1st - 4th
Written by Bill Wise
This book tells the story of Louis Sockalexis, one of the first American Indian players in Major League Baseball.
Written by Lee Bennett Hopkins
This anthology presents American history through poems from a diverse group of writers.
K - 7th
Written by Doreen Rappaport
This story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. told using his own “big words.”
K - 3rd
Written by Russell Freedman
A biography of Abraham Lincoln told in illustrations and photographs. The book spans Lincoln’s...
5th - 8th
Written by David Catrow
A discussion of the Preamble of the Constitution oriented to kids as a way to bring about...
K - 3rd
Written by Mildred D. Taylor
The story is about the Logan family, who live in Mississippi during the Depression. The family...
6th - 10th
Written by Heather Henson
In the 1930s, the Pack Horse Librarians traveled high up into the Appalachian Mountains to lend...
Pre-K - 3rd
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
Written by Suzanne Slade
A biography of Susan B. Anthony who worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the struggle to win women...
K - 4th
Written by Emily Arnold McCully
The year was 1880. The place was Tenafly, New Jersey. Cordelia lived next door to Elizabeth Cady...
Pre-K - 2nd
Written by David A. Adler
An introduction to the life and times of Eleanor Roosevelt told in words and pictures. Eleanor was...
1st - 4th
Written by Eloise Greenfield
An illustrated biography of Mary McLeod Bethune, the daughter of former slaves who wanted nothing...
1st - 5th
Written by David A. Adler
The story of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama...
1st - 4th
Written by Carole Boston Weatherford
There were signs all throughout town telling eight-year-old Connie where she could and could not...
Pre-K - 3rd
Written by Robert Coles
The story of Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to attend an all-white school in New...
Pre-K - 3rd
Written by David A. Adler
An introduction to the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., from his childhood to his assassination....
Pre-K - 3rd
Written by Peter Golenbock
Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s, becoming the first African American on a...
Pre-K - 3rd
Written by Faith Ringgold
This book weaves the history Harriet Tubman and her work with the Underground Railroad into a...
Pre-K - 2nd
Written by Judith St. George
In amusing and caricature-like illustrations, this book sketches the perks and annoyances of being...