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The Scrambled States of America Talent Show

Square Fish
It all started quite simply, really. In the middle of the night, New York woke up from a dream and shouted, “HEY, EVERYONE—LET’S HAVE A TALENT SHOW!”...
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Let It Begin Here!
April 19, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began
Actual Times

Flash Point
ONE DAY THAT CHANGED A NATION A nonfiction master brings the start of the American Revolution to life. A 26-year-old King George II found himself in...
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Crossing Stones

Frances Foster Books
Maybe you won’t rock a cradle, Muriel. Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat. Eighteen-year-old Muriel Jorgensen lives on one side of Crabapple...
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Demon Chick

Henry Holt and Co.
Jessica may not have the warmest relationship with her mother, aspiring presidential candidate Margaret Hunsucker, but it still comes as a shock when she...
  
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Two Miserable Presidents
The Amazing, Terrible, and Totally True Story of the Civil War

Square Fish
May 22, 1856: A MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA WALKS INTO THE SENATE CHAMBER, LOOKING FOR TROUBLE. That Congressman, Preston Brooks, was ready to...
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Leaving Glorytown
One Boy's Struggle Under Castro

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Eduardo F. Calcines was a child of Fidel Castro’s Cuba; he was just three years old when Castro came to power in January 1959. After that, everything changed...
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1968
New York Times

Roaring Brook Press
1968, THE YEAR AMERICA GREW UP From racial and gender equality fights to the struggle against the draft and the Vietnam war, in 1968 Americans asked...
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Yes We Can
A Biography of President Barack Obama

Feiwel & Friends
THIS IS OUR MOMENT “This is our time—to put people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of...
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In the Name of God

Square Fish
How far would you go to defend your beliefs?
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Shift

Henry Holt and Co.
In fifteen year-old Adrian Havoc's world, Homestate rules every aspect of society: identity cards need to be carried at all times, evolution is a forbidden...
  

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The Wall
Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Frances Foster Books
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER “I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated...
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Rosa

Square Fish
Winner of the Caldecott Honor Medal and the Coretta Scott King Medal, this picture book tribute to Rosa Parks celebrates the 50th anniversary of her refusal to...
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Almost Everything

Roaring Brook Press
A skyscraper? An igloo? A high-speed train? A horse and cart? Encyclopedic and stylish, Almost Everything is full of things both familiar and unexpected,...
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In Defiance of Hitler
The Secret Mission of Varian Fry

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
On August 4, 1940, an unassuming American journalist named Varian Fry made his way to Marseilles, France, carrying in his pockets the names of approximately...
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Soccer Chick Rules

Square Fish
Soccer Chick Rule Number 7: Never, ever give up!
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Vote for Larry

Square Fish
Larry is not your parents’ politician, that’s for sure.
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First Boy

Square Fish
He was just a farm boy. Why was someone out to get him?
  
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Seeing the Elephant
A Story of the Civil War

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Young Izzie wishes he could join the Union Army with his brothers, Ario and Cal. He wonders what it would be like to “see the elephant”—soldier talk for going...
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Lincoln's Last Days
The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

Henry Holt and Co.
With more than 1.5 million copies sold, Killing Lincoln deftly recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—of how one gunshot changed the...