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France champion and one of cycling’s greatest stars. But all that During the Civil War, an enslaved man pretending to be the seemed unimportant when his country came under the grip of captain of a Confederate steamship escaped to the North on a a brutal dictator and entered World War II on the side of Nazi stolen boat with 15 other slaves. il. Kang, Poppy. [IL 6-9] 40 pages Germany. Bartali might have appeared a mere bystander to the Capstone 2019 973-B (AR) 18.16 harassment and hatred directed toward Italy’s Jewish people, but secretly he accepted a role in a dangerous plan to help them. 4 *Overstock special while supply lasts. Katirgis, Jane Loney, Andrea J. 507793 Meet Nat Love: And Former Slave. When Nat Love 585012 Take A Picture Of Me, James Van Der Zee! A biography of was born into slavery in , his family worked on a tobacco James Van Der Zee, innovative and celebrated African American plantation. 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The broom hanging on the family’s cabin man in India recalls how, when he was a young boy, he got his first wall is a special symbol of Ellen’s parents’ wedding during slave taste of freedom as he and his brother joined the great Mahatma days, so she carries it to the courthouse when the marriage Gandhi on a march to the sea to make salt in defiance of British becomes legal. il. Minter, Daniel. [IL 5-8] 32 pages Putnam 2012 E law. il. Ferri, Giuliano. [IL 6-8] 41 pages Walker Books 2014 E (AR/ (AR/RC) 20.76 RC) 6.50* Maclear, Kyo Krull, Kathleen 595066 It Began With A Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew The 533301 Sacajawea. Sacajawea was only sixteen when she Way. The most moving moments in the life of Gyo Fujikawa, a made one of the most remarkable journeys in American history, groundbreaking Japanese-American picture book artist whose traveling 4,500 miles on the Lewis and Clark expedition. il. Collins, work helped start the trend of depicting diversity in children’s Matt. 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The picture book about Anne Frank and how she found her voice in a inspirational story of African-American inventor Garrett Morgan, world determined to silence her. il. Lewis, Aura. [IL 6-8] 42 pages whose incredible safety hood became the forerunner to the gas Orchard Books 2020 940-B 22.16 mask that saved thousands of soldiers in the trenches of World Marsico, Katie War I. il. Parkins, David. [IL 5-8] 32 pages Tundra Books 2016 609-B 603578 George Washington Carver. A biography of the life of (AR/RC) 6.50* George Washington Carver, who made advances in agriculture. il. Kunkel, Angela Burke Bane, Jeff. [IL 4-7] 24 pages Cherry Lake 2019 630-B (AR) 534870 Digging For Words: Jose Alberto Gutierrez And The Library 22.84 He Built. Based on the life of Jose Alberto Gutierrez, a garbage 603628 Lewis Howard Latimer. A biography of the life of Civil War collector in Bogota, Colombia who started with a single discarded veteran and inventor, Lewis Howard Latimer. il. Bane, Jeff. 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A fun biography of Sonia called up in 1942, Charlie learns about the tedium and dangers Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice. il. Eliopoulos, of war through Joe’s letters--and his brother’s bravery in dealing Chris. [IL 6-8] 40 pages Dial 2018 347-B (AR/RC) 19.36 with a spy as D-Day approaches, finally gives Charlie the strength Messner, Kate to stand up to the local bully. [IL 7-10] 104 pages Scholastic 2016 639761 Attack On Pearl Harbor. This time Ranger, the time- Fic (AR/RC) 20.06 travelling golden retriever, finds himself transported to the deck 678408 Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot’s World War of the USS on December 7, 1941, where he rescues the II Story. In this important and moving true story of reconciliation young sailor Ben Hansen who is badly burned when the ship after war, beautifully illustrated in watercolor, a Japanese pilot explodes--and there is a Japanese-American boy and girl in a bombs the continental U.S. during WWII--the only enemy ever to rowboat who also need his help to find their father amid the chaos do so--and comes back 20 years later to apologize. il. Iwai, Melissa. of the attack. il. McMorris, Kelley. [IL 7-10] 114 pages Scholastic [IL 6-8] 40 pages Clarion 2018 940 (AR/RC) 21.46 2020 Fic 27.06 Nolan, Janet 639809 Escape From The Twin Towers. Ranger the time-travelling 679010 Seven And A Half Tons Of Steel. Following the events of golden retriever was trained for search-and-rescue and even September 11, 2001, the governor of New York gave the Navy a though he did not pass the tests he has used his training on his steel beam that was once inside one of the World Trade Towers. many trips to help people caught up in disasters; now he has Here is the story of what the Navy did with it. il. Gonzalez, Thomas. arrived at the World Trade Center on the morning of September [IL 6-8] 35 pages Peachtree 2016 623 (AR/RC) 21.44 11, 2001 just as the first plane hits, and he must rescue fifth- Nolan, Nina graders Risha and Max who are trapped in the wreckage, guide 678706 Mahalia Jackson: Walking With Kings And Queens. A them to safety, and hopefully reunite them with Risha’s mother picture book biography about Mahalia Jackson’s rise to becoming who works on the ninety-first floor. il. McMorris, Kelley. [IL 7-10] the Queen of Gospel. il. Holyfield, John. [IL 5-8] 32 pages Amistad 109 pages Scholastic 2020 Fic 27.06 2015 782-B (AR) 21.46 639795 Long Road To Freedom. This time the mysterious box that Nolen, Jerdine Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland 678702 Freedom Bird. In the antebellum South, two siblings plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way west toward freedom. il. Ransome, James. [IL 5-9] 32 pages Simon to the Underground Railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse 2020 E 21.46 is sold to a plantation further South. il. McMorris, Kelley. [IL 7-10] Nuchi, Adah 131 pages Scholastic 2016 Fic (AR/RC) 14.17 683995 God Bless America: The Story Of An Immigrant Named Irving Miller, David Lee Berlin. A picture book about songwriter Irving Berlin and how his 644536 Cat Who Lived With Anne Frank. Mouschi the cat relates experience as a Jewish immigrant inspired him to compose the the experiences of Anne Frank and seven other people who hid patriotic anthem “God Bless America.” il. Polivka, Rob. [IL 4-8] 40 from Nazis in a secret annex over a factory in Amsterdam during pages Disney/Hyperion 2018 782-B 21.46 the Holocaust. Includes facts about the Holocaust and about Parsons, Karyn Anne Frank. il. Baddeley, Elizabeth. [IL 4-8] 34 pages Philomel 702322 Flying Free: How Bessie Coleman’s Dreams Took Flight. The 2019 E 21.46 story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to earn Mochizuki, Ken her pilot’s license. il. Christie, R. Gregory. [IL 4-8] 48 pages Little 650570 Baseball Saved Us. A Japanese American boy learns 2020 629-B 22.16 to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an Pimentel, Annette Bay internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps 718235 Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed him after the war is over. il. Lee, Dom. [IL 7-9] 32 pages Lee & Low His Plans, And Helped Cook Up The National Park Service. The true 2018 Fic 15.47 story of a Chinese American mountain man who fed thirty people Moss, Marissa for ten days in the wilderness--and influenced the creation of the 661608 Baseball. A true story about baseball set in National Park Service. il. Lo, Rich. [IL 6-9] 40 pages Charlesbridge the Japanese internment camps of WWII. il. Shimizu, Yuko. [IL 2016 641-B 20.74 6-10] 39 pages Abrams 2013 796 (AR/RC) 22.84 Pincus, Meeg Myers, Walter Dean 718900 Miep And The Most Famous Diary: The Woman Who 665986 Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History. A picture Rescued Anne Frank’s Diary. When the Frank family and others are book biography of the great Frederick Douglass, a self-educated found and arrested during World War II, Miep Gies hides young slave in the South who grew up to become an icon. il. Cooper, Anne’s papers from the Nazis and later is instrumental in having Floyd. [IL 4-8] 34 pages Harper 2017 973-B (AR/RC) 21.46 her beloved friend’s diary published. il. Solano, Jordi. [IL 6-9] 37 Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux pages Sleeping Bear Press 2019 940-B 21.46 670273 Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore. Powell, Patricia Hruby Imagines the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, 729810 Josephine: The Dazzling Life Of Josephine Baker. An founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the illustrated biography in verse of Josephine Baker, a dancer, singer, perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like comedienne, and early African American artist. il. Robinson, Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there. il. 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When Wu Chien Shiung was born in pages Harper 2018 520-C (AR/RC) 21.46 China 100 years ago, girls did not attend school. But her parents Sieg, Annie named their daughter “Courageous Hero” and encouraged her 817090 Mama Mable’s All-Gal Big Band Jazz Extravaganza! Mama love of science. This biography follows Wu as she battles sexism at Mable’s racially integrated, all-female band travels the country home and racism in the United States of America to become what during World War II, bringing joy and healing to the home front. Newsweek magazine called the “Queen of Physics” for her work Includes author’s note. il. [IL 4-8] 33 pages Make Me a World 2019 on how atoms split. il. Huang, Rebecca. [IL 5-9] 42 pages Sterling E 21.46 2019 530-B (AR) 20.74 Simons, Lisa M. B. Rockliff, Mara 821688 Madam C.J. Walker: Inventor And Businesswoman. Madam 761240 Born To Swing: Lil Hardin Armstrong’s Life In Jazz. The C.J. Walker wasn’t just an inventor. She was also a political activist story of “Hot Miss Lil” Hardin Armstrong, legendary jazz pianist, and businesswoman. She not only fought for civil rights, but composer, and bandleader-and a female pioneer of the music became one of the most successful African-American business stage. il. Wood, Michele. [IL 6-9] 32 pages Calkins Creek 2018 786- owners ever. il. [IL 6-8] 24 pages Capstone 2018 338-B (AR) B (AR/RC) 21.44 21.27 761253 Me And Momma And Big John. Little John is proud of his Slade, Suzanne mother’s work as a stonecutter for a cathedral called “Big John,” 823765 Exquisite: The Poetry And Life Of Gwendolyn Brooks. A but struggles to understand the importance of spending so much picture book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, time on one stone that no one will know Momma cut. il. Low, the first black American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. il. William. [IL 6-8] 32 pages Candlewick 2012 E (AR/RC) 6.50* Cabrera, Cozbi A. [IL 6-8] 48 pages Abrams 2020 811-B 21.46 Rockwell, Anne F. 823767 Swish!: The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying 761420 Hey, Charleston!: The True Story Of The Jenkins Orphanage Harlem Globetrotters. The true story of the high-flying Harlem Band. In 1891, Rev. Daniel J. Jenkins, a former slave and orphan Globetrotters--the team that changed basketball forever. il. [IL himself, founded an orphanage for young African American 4-8] 40 pages Little 2020 796-C 21.46 children in Charleston. But that was only the beginning. il. Smith, Charles R. Bootman, Colin. [IL 7-9] 33 pages Carolrhoda 2013 784 (AR/RC) 831016 28 Days: Moments In Black History That Changed The 20.74 World. A picture book look at many of the men and women who 761536 Spy Called James: The True Story Of James Lafayette, revolutionized life for African Americans throughout history. il. Revolutionary War Double Agent. A biography of James Armistead Evans, Shane. 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