Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas by Gwendolyn Hooks
Tiny Stitches presents the remarkable story of a surgeon few people have likely heard of, but to whom many owe their life. Vivien Thomas, an African American doctor developed a surgical technique to...
View ArticleThe Greatest Treasure Hunt In History by Robert Edsel
Robert Edsel's The Greatest Treasure Hunt In History is a book for young adults and older children focusing on a group of eleven men and one woman who were part of the Monuments Men, a group of...
View ArticleAda's Violin by Susan Hood
Their story has been told in the documentary, Fillharmonic, and in countless newspapers, magazine articles and even on television. It is a story about resiliency, determination, creativity. Ada's...
View ArticleThe House of One Thousand Eyes by Michelle Barker
It is 1983 and seventeen-year-old Lena Altmann lives in the Better Germany, in the borough of Lichtenberg, East Berlin, with her Aunt Adelheid. Lena's parents died in a factory accident at the freight...
View ArticleIn Another Time by Caroline Leech
Seventeen-year-old Margaret (Maisie) McCall wanted to take control of her life.She was too young to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force or the Auxiliary Territorial Service but she was able to...
View ArticleEscaping Titanic: A Young Girl's True Story of Survival by Marybeth Lorbiecki
Escaping Titanic is a fictional account of Ruth Becker's experience aboard the Titanic in 1912. Becker was twelve-years-old when she boarded the luxury ocean liner with her mother and her younger...
View ArticleSomeday We Will Fly by Rachel DeWoskin
May 17, 1940 was the last time fifteen-year-old Lillia Kazka saw her parents perform at the Stanislav Circus in Warsaw. Their gravity-defying performance came to a crashing end when the secret circus...
View ArticleTitanosaur: Discovering The World's Largest Dinosaur by Dr. Jose Luis...
In Titanosaur, Argentinian paleontologists, Dr. Jose Luis Carballido and Dr. Diego Pol tell the remarkable story of uncovering the world's largest dinosaur, aptly named Titanosaur. Dr. Carballido...
View ArticleBoy From Berlin by Nancy McDonald
Boy From Berlin is Canadian author, Nancy McDonald's debut novel about a Jewish boy and his family who flee the Nazis. The novel beings in 1938. Eight-year-old Heinz (Kafer) Avigdor lives in Berlin...
View ArticleA Year of Borrowed Men by Michelle Barker
A Year of Borrowed Men is based on the experiences of the author's mother during World War II in Germany. At the time, Michelle Barker's mother Gerda, was a young girl. Her father was forced to fight...
View ArticleA Whole New World: A Twisted Tale by Liz Braswell
A Whole New World is a re-telling of the tale of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, one of the tales in the Arabian Nights, also known as One Thousand and One Nights. This re-telling closely follows the...
View ArticleLook Up With Me: Neil deGrasse Tyson by Jennifer Berne
Look Up With Me tells young readers about the life of Neil deGrasse Tyson, an American astrophysicist. Tyson was born in New York City in He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in...
View ArticleThe Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck
The Big Wave is a novella written by the late American Pulitzer Prize winning author, Pearl S. Buck about a young Japanese boy who survives a tsunami and learns much about life.The story is set in a...
View ArticleMammoth by Jill Baguchinsky
Natalie Page, paleontology nerd and vintage, plus-size fashion blogger is on her way to spend the summer at the Central Texas Mammoth Site as one of two interns. Natalie lives in Orlando, Florida with...
View ArticleThe Golden Bull by Marjorie Cowley
The Golden Bull is a middle-school historical fiction novel set in Mesopotamia in 2600 B.C. Fourteen-year-old Jomar and his younger sister, twelve-year-old Zefa live with their parents on a farm...
View ArticleBlack Panther: The Young Prince by Ronald L. Smith
Black Panther: The Young Prince introduces younger readers to the backstory of T'Challa, prince,future ruler of Wakanda, and the future Black Panther.The novel opens with T'Challa racing against his...
View ArticleGirls On The Line by Jennie Liu
Set in Gujiao, China in 2009, Girls On The Line is a novel about life in China during the One-Child Policy and its implications for women, children, families and society in general. It is told through...
View ArticleRescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship by Jessica Kensky and Patrick...
Rescue and Jessica is based on the true events. Jessica Krensky and her husband Patrick Downes had just settled in near the finish line to watch the Boston Marathon. It was a rare day off for the two...
View ArticleThe Boy Who Harnessed The Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind is a picture book about teen inventor, William Kamkwamba whose determination to help his starving family made a huge difference to his village in Africa.William Kamkwamba...
View ArticleBrown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming is the story of Jacqueline Woodson's life growing up as an African American in America during the 1960s and 1970s. Woodson is an award-winning American author who has written many...
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