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Claudette Colvin

Twice Toward Justice

Phillip Hoose Square Fish

Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Now available in paperback: her National Book Award–wining story, told by the incomparable Phillip...

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Soar, Elinor!

Tami Lewis Brown; Illustrated by François Roca Melanie Kroupa Books

Elinor Smith was six when she first went for a ride in a rickety “flying machine,” and she was just sixteen when she earned her aviation license in 1928. But...

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The Man Who Made Time Travel

Kathryn Lasky; Pictures by Kevin Hawkes Melanie Kroupa Books

Who would solve one of the most perplexing scientific problems of all time? This dramatic picture-book biography brings to life – with illustrations...

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The Tree of Life

Charles Darwin

Peter Sís; Illustrated by the author Frances Foster Books

In this brilliant presentation of a revolutionary thinker's life, the picture book becomes an art form As far as I can judge, I am not apt to follow blindly...

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The Great Expedition of Lewis and Clark

by Private Reubin Field, Member of the Corps of Discovery

Judith Edwards; Pictures by Sally Wern Comport Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A flavorful account to commemorate its bicentennial In 1803 a young farmer named Reubin Field enlisted for a journey of enormous import. Commissioned by...

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The Flower Hunter

William Bartram, America's First Naturalist

Deborah Kogan Ray; Pictures by the author Frances Foster Books

Little botanist / first naturalist Of John Bartram's nine children, it is William who best loves nature and wants to follow in his father's footsteps....

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Wise Guy

The Life and Philosophy of Socrates

M. D. Usher; pictures by William Bramhall Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Greek philosophy for kids “I know that I know nothing.” With this classic statement, uttered over two thousand years ago, Socrates set the standard for...

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A Dangerous Engine

Benjamin Franklin, from Scientist to Diplomat

Joan Dash; Pictures by Dusan Petricic Frances Foster Books

At the time of his famous kite experiment, Benjamin Franklin was unaware that his theories about electricity had already made him a celebrity all over Europe,...

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The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela

Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century

Uri Shulevitz Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century Imagine a time when streets were narrow and dirty, towns were surrounded by walls, brigands lurked alongside...

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Manjiro

The Boy Who Risked His Life for Two Countries

Emily Arnold McCully Farrar, Straus and Giroux

In 1841, Japan had been closed to the outside world for 250 years, and anyone who tried to return to the country after leaving it could be executed. So when...

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