Escape: The Story of the Great Houdini

Author: Sid Fleischman
Publisher: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Awards: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Masterlist (VT); New York Public Library’s “One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing;” ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults; Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book; ALA Notable Children’s Book; School Library Journal Best Book; New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Author: Eleanor Coerr
Publisher: A Puffin Book

Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White

Author: Melissa Sweet
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Awards: A Junior Library Guild Selection
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The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marion Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Awards: Sibert Medal 2005; Newbery Honor Book 2005