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The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

Written by Dashka Slater
If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students...
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The Prince and the Dressmaker

Written by Jen Wang
Prince Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Written by Frederick Douglass
Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose...
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Guts

Written by Gary Paulsen
The true stories behind the Brian Robeson books, which are based on Paulsen's own adventures as an...
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Heroes Of The Environment

Written by Harriet Rohmer
This inspiring book presents the true stories of 12 people from across North America who have done...
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The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens

Written by Sean Covey

Imagine you had a roadmap—a step-by-step guide to help you get from where you are now, to where you...

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The Greatest: Muhammad Ali

Written by Walter Dean Myers
A riveting portrait of the world's greatest boxer chronicles his childhood, his rise as a champion...
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The Way Things Work Now

Written by David Macaulay
Explainer-in-Chief David Macaulay updates the worldwide bestseller The New Way Things Work to...
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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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King George What Was His Problem? Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You about the American Revolution

Written by Steve Sheinkin and Illustrated by Tim Robinson
The story of the birth of our nation, complete with soldiers, spies, salmon sandwiches, and real...
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Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas

Written by Jim Ottaviani and Illustrated by Maris Wicks
Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last...
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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...
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Presenting Buffalo Bill The Man Who Invented the Wild West

Written by Candace Fleming
Everyone knows the name Buffalo Bill, but few these days know what he did or, in some cases, didn't...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...

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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...
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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...
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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...
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Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961

Written by Larry Dane Brimner
Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961
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Hitler's Last Days The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator

Written by O'Reilly and Bill
By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by...
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In the Shadow of Liberty The Hidden History of Slavery Four Presidents and Five Black Lives

Written by Davis and Kenneth C
Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers―who fought for liberty and justice for all―were...
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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...
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