Children of the Great Depression
Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Clarion Books
Awards: Orbis Pictus Winner 2016; Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction
Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today’s Youth
Author: Gregory J. Reed and and Rosa Parks
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Awards: NAACP Image Award; Teachers’ Choices Award; Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies; Blackboard Book of the Year in Children’s Literature
Kid Presidents: True Tales of Childhood from America’s Presidents
Author: Dave Stabler
Illustrator: Doogie Horner
Publisher: Quirk Books
Awards: 2015 National Parenting Publications Awards, Silver Winner
Mistakes that Worked: The World’s Familiar Inventions and How They Came to Be
Author: Charlotte Toltz Jones
Illustrator: John Obrien
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Awards: Kentucky Bluegrass Master List Winner 1996
Remarkable Children: Twenty Who Made History
Author: Dennis B. Fradin
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
Author: Jim Murphy
Publisher: Scholastic
Awards: Junior Literary Guild Selection
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Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
Author: Jim Murphy
Publisher: Scholastic
Awards: A 2010 Notable Book for a Global Society; An Editor’s Choice, Kirkus Reviews; An ALA’s BBYA Best Book for Young Adults; A NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended Title; Booklist Best Books of 2009; Junior Literary Guild Selection; SLJ Best Books of 2009; A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book
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War Game: Village Green to No-Man’s Land
Author: Michael Foreman
Illustrator: Michael Foreman
Publisher: Anova Books
Awards: 1993 Winner of Britain’s Smarties Book Prize