614.4/BAR Barnard, Bryn. Outbreak: plagues that changed history.
Outbreak is a fascinating look at the hidden world of microbes–and
how this world shapes human destiny every day. It describes symptoms and paths
of deadly diseases that have impacted the course of human history.
323/BAU Bausum, Ann. Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg
on the front lines of the civil rights movement.
Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis
and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated
experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice
created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom
Riders on a bus journey south.
324.6/BAU Bausaum, Ann. With Courage and Cloth: winning the
fight for a woman's right to vote.
The photo-illustrated history With Courage and Cloth tells the story of how
women fought for and won the right to vote in the United States.
796.082/BLU Blumenthal, Karen. Let Me Play.
Can girls play softball? Can girls play basketball or ice hockey or soccer?
Can girls become lawyers or doctors or engineers?
Of course they can...today. But just a few decades ago, opportunities for
girls were far more limited, not because they weren't capable of playing or
didn't want to become doctors or lawyers, but because they weren't allowed
to. Then quietly, in 1972, something momentous happened: Congress passed a
law called "Title IX," forever changing the lives of American girls.
332.64/BLU Blumenthal, Karen. Six Days in October: the stock
market crash of 1929.
A comprehensive review of the events, personalities, and mistakes behind the
Stock Market Crash of 1929, featuring photographs, newspaper articles, and
cartoons of the day.
959.704/CAP Caputo, Philip. 10,000 Days of Thunder: a history
of the Vietnam War.
It was the war that lasted ten thousand days. The war that inspired scores
of songs. The war that sparked dozens of riots. And in this stirring chronicle,Caputo
writes about our country's most controversial war, the Vietnam War.
355.8/COH Cohen, David. The Manhattan Project.
Discusses the personalities and events involved in the research, development
and detonation of the atomic bombs built by the United States in the 1940s.
973.2/COO Cooper, Michael L. Jamestown, 1607.
In May of 1607, the first English colony on American soil was established
in Virginia, at Jamestown. It became the home of Princess Pocahontas, the
center of the new tobacco industry, the meeting place of Americas first representative
assembly, and fatefully the landing place of the first African slaves in America.
B/HOU Fleischman, Sid. Escape!: the story of the great Houdini.
Who was this man who could walk through brick walls and, with a snap of his
fingers, vanish elephants? In these pages you will meet the astonishing Houdini,
magician, ghost chaser, daredevil, pioneer aviator, and king of escape artists.
B/POL Freedman, Russell. The Adventures of Marco Polo.
He claimed to have seen rocks burn, bandits command sandstorms, lions tamed
with a look, and sorcerers charm sharks while divers gathered pearls on the
ocean floor. Marco Polo shook Europe with descriptions of the world he'd seen
on his epic journey to the court of Kublai Khan. But was Marco Polo the world's
most accomplished explorer? Had he really seen the "Roof of the World"
in Central Asia, and the "City of Heaven" in far-off China? Or was
he a charlatan who saw nothing more than the conjurings of his inventive mind?
323.1196/FRE Freedman, Russell. Freedom Walkers: the story of
the Montgomery bus boycott.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus and
give up her seat to a white man. This refusal to give up her dignity sparked
the Montgomery bus boycott, a yearlong struggle, and a major victory in the
civil rights movement.
973.3/FRE Freedman, Russell. Give me Liberty!: the story behind
the Declaration of Independence.
Describes the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence as well
as the personalities and politics behind its framing.
363.25/FRI Friedlander, Mark P. When Objects Talk:solving a
crime with science.
Using a fictional murder case as the thread on which to string "beads"
of forensic practices, the authors present a broad range of scientific techniques
used by law-enforcement agencies around the world. From fingerprints to DNA,
from basic autopsy to the cutting edge of facial reconstruction, the readable,
informative text gives students an understanding of the scientific methods
and how they are used to help police, lawyers, judges, and juries bring criminals
to justice.
792.02/GIB Giblin, James. Good Brother, Bad Brother : the story
of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth.
Most people know the name John Wilkes Booth, but few likely have heard of
his elder brother Edwin. Find out about the brothers through first-hand accounts.
Learn how alike and how different they were, and how each made a lasting impression
on American history.
363.17 Hampton, Wilborn. Meltdown : a race against nuclear disaster
at Three Mile Island : a reporter's story.
This riveting eyewitness report—including dramatic photos—takes
readers right to the scene of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.
B/GRI Hettinga, Donald R. The Brothers Grimm: two lives, one
legacy.
Read about the fascinating lives of the men who made “once upon a time”
an enchanting part of our vocabulary.
973//HOO Hoose, Philip. We Were There, Too!: young people in
U.S. history.
Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history,
including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and
civil rights workers.
307.76/HOP Hopkinson, Deborah. Shutting Out the Sky: life in
the tenements of New York, 1880-1924.
Acclaimed author Hopkinson recounts the lives of five immigrants to New York's
Lower East Side through oral histories and engaging narrative. We hear Romanian-born
Marcus Ravage's disappointment when his aunt pushes him outside to peddle
chocolates on the street. And about the pickle cart lady who stored her pickles
in a rat-infested basement. We read Rose Cohen's terrifying account of living
through the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, and of Pauline Newman's struggles to
learn English. But through it all, each one of these kids keeps working, keeps
hoping, to achieve their own American dream.
636.089/JAC Jackson, Donna M. ER Vets : life in an animal emergency
room.
They can surgically remove an arrow in a cat's abdomen, repair a bird's broken
wing, even save a tiny foal that is in a coma. How? With high-tech x-rays,
endoscopes, and electrocardiographsbut most important, with a love of science
and animals. Filled with full-color behind-the-scenes photographs, this book
captures the drama, excitement, and courage of being an ER vet.
823/LAM Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare.
Twenty adaptations of Shakespeare's plays rewritten in story format.
363.3/LAU Lauber, Patricia. Hurricanes : Earth's mightiest storms.
An introduction to the power, majesty, and destruction of hurricanes. This
book tells how hurricanes form, how scientists study them, and how they have
affected the United States throughout this century.
973/LEV Levine, Ellen. Freedom's Children.
Filled with inspiring accounts of faith and courage, this book rescues and
preserves the stories of children and teenagers who contributed to the civil
rights movement.
B/MAH Chinese Cinderella: the story of an unwanted daughter.
A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family
during the 1940s.
968/NOM McKee, Tim. No More Strangers Now: voices from new South
Africa.
In their own words, a variety of teenagers from South Africa talk about their
years growing up under apartheid, and about the changes now occuring in their
country.
323.1/MCW McWhorter, Diane. A Dream of Freedom : the civil rights
movement from 1954 to 1968.
This history of the modern Civil Rights movement, focuses on the monumental
events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown v. the Board of Education)
and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
920/MEL Meltzer, Milton. Ten Queens: portraits of women of power.
From the courage and beauty of Esther (5th century B.C.) to the fierce battle
tactics of Boudicca (A.D. c. 62) to the reforming spirit of Catherine the
Great (1729-1796), here are ten essays about the personal and political natures
of ten queens.
973.3/MUR Murphy, Jim. A Young Patriot: the American Revolution
as experienced by one boy.
Vivid black and white photographs and background details add to the compelling
wartime memoirs of Joseph Plumb Martin, a fifteen-year-old Connecticut farm
boy who enlisted in the revolutionary army in the summer of 1776.
974.7/MUR Murphy, Jim. Blizzard!
Presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of
the massive snow storm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events
in New York City.
977.3/MUR Murphy, Jim. The Great Fire.
Vivid firsthand descriptions by persons who lived through the 1871 Chicago
fire are woven into this gripping account.
822.3/PAC Packer, Tina. Tales from Shakespeare.
A collection of prose retellings of ten familiar Shakespeare plays, each illustrated
by a well-known artist or artists.
363.738/PAL Paladino, Catherine. One Good Apple: growing our
food for the sake of the earth.
Here is a book to empower our next generation of gardeners and farmers by
presenting a way of growing good food that nourishes not only us, but the
earth as well.
973.04/PHI Philip, Neil. The Great Circle: a history of the
First Nations.
Folklorist Neil Philip examines the shared experience of many of the First
Nations, from their separate existences before whites arrived, to their years
of struggle and heartbreak, to the present-day resurgence of their cultures.
629.45/PYL Pyle, Rod. Destination Moon.
Destination Moon tells the significant, spectacular, and intriguing story
of the Apollo program through first-person accounts by the astronauts themselves—both
their mission dialogue and retrospective reminiscences—explained and
put into context with expert commentary by Rod Pyle.
B/LEE Shields, Charles J. I am Scout: the biography of Harper
Lee.
Onetime author Harper Lee is a mysterious figure who leads a very private
life in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, refusing to give interviews
or talk about the novel that made her a household name. Anyone who has enjoyed
To Kill a Mockingbird will appreciate this glimpse into the life of its fascinating
author.
883/SUT Sutcliff, Rosemary. The Wanderings of Odysseus : the
story of the Odyssey.
A retelling of the adventures of Odysseus on his long voyage home from the
Trojan War.
333.95/SWI Swinburne, Stephen. Once a Wolf.
With powerful and rare photographs by Jim Brandenburg, Once a Wolf explores
the long, troubled relationship of humans and wolves. The book traces the
persecution of the wolf throughout history and also reveals the role scientists
have played in wolf preservation.
629.45/THI Thimmesh, Catherine. Team Moon : how 400,000 people
landed Apollo 11 on the moon.
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo
11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the
few and famous. Culled from direct quotes from the people behind the scenes,
NASA transcripts, national archives and NASA photos, the whole story of Apollo
11 and the first moon landing emerges.
599.9/THO Thomas, Peggy. Talking Bones: the science of forensic
anthropology.
Introduces the history, technology, and importance of science of using human
remains to solve crimes and includes actual forensic cases.