5 Best history books like Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream by KT Johnston

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Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

By: KT Johnston

4.51

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A Junior Library Guild exclusive selection! Lis Hartel became paralyzed after contracting polio …

If you liked the history plot in Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream by KT Johnston , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Orphan Island

By: Laurel Snyder

3.91

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

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2. The Puppets of Spelhorst

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.19

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale—with enchanting illustrations b… read more

Similar categories in Kate DiCamillo's The Puppets of Spelhorst book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • middle grade
  • childrens
"The moon has no master," said the owl. "The moon is its own king." "Or queen," said the girl. The moon rose higher."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Puppets of Spelhorst

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3. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Day's The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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4. The Lost Year

By: Katherine Marsh

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Marsh's The Lost Year book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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5. A First Time for Everything

By: Dan Santat

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkwa… read more

Similar categories in Dan Santat's A First Time for Everything book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • childrens
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6. Good Different

By: Meg Eden Kuyatt

4.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate he… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • disability
"Fight for words, even if it's hard."

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

"You may have different needs than some folks in your class, but that doesn't make you the ­«wrong» version and other people the «normal» version. You are Selah. And you are not the only one feeling t…"

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

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7. Simon Sort of Says

By: Erin Bow

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a ho… read more

Similar categories in Erin Bow's Simon Sort of Says book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • middle grade
  • childrens
"Dad picks Denver [to get his rabies shots], and he's totally fine, but he's going to be away for three days. "Just like Jesus," Mom says. I can hear the phone say, "Isobel!"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"In the tabernacle did the [squirrel]--" "Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did." "And was it--" "Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was." ... "What, uh, happened to the squirrel?" "That squirrel is now 3…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

"The dog- Todd?- looks up from its leaking beer, puffs a sigh, then crosses the room to head-butt the fridge door closed. "Ummm" I manage "Did you see he got a--" "It's okay," she says. "He only has o…"

-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says

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8. Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 1: Volume 1

By: Celina Frenn

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The first book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series is … read more

Similar categories in Celina Frenn's Keeper of the Lost Cities The Graphic Novel Part 1: Volume 1 book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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9. Chester Keene Cracks the Code

By: Kekla Magoon

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Cracking the code isn't all it's cracked up to be in this scavenger hunt adventure from a Coretta S… read more

Similar categories in Kekla Magoon's Chester Keene Cracks the Code book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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10. Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider

By: Jessica Lanan

4.40

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A nonfiction story following a day in the life of a backyard jumping spider.What if you were small … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Lanan's Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • childrens
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11. The Midnight Children

By: Dan Gemeinhart

4.16

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary story about a family of runaways who take up residence in a small town, and the ou… read more

Similar categories in Dan Gemeinhart's The Midnight Children book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • middle grade
  • childrens
"Stories, after all, are about choices."

-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children

"And determined is nearly always a very good thing to be."

-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children

"I’ll be your creep, Ravani Foster, if you’ll be my freak."

-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children

"But the truth, sometimes, can be the cruelest thing of all."

-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children

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12. The Night War

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words com… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The Night War book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem by Colleen Paeff

13. The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem

By: Colleen Paeff

4.35

Format: None pages, None

Discover the true story about the determined engineer who fixed London’s pollution problem in this … read more

Similar categories in Colleen Paeff's The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
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14. The Sea in Winter

By: Christine Day

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The story of a Native American girl struggling to find her joy again. It’s been a hard year for … read more

Similar categories in Christine Day's The Sea in Winter book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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15. Hummingbird

By: Natalie Lloyd

4.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Natalie Lloyd returns with her most personal book to date, a story about a girl … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Lloyd's Hummingbird book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • disability
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16. We Still Belong

By: Christine Day

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful and heartfelt middle grade novel by American Indian Youth Literature Honor–winning aut… read more

Similar categories in Christine Day's We Still Belong book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

17. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

By: Margot Lee Shetterly

4.44

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really g… read more

Similar categories in Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
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18. Soaring in Style

By: Jennifer Lane Wilson

4.27

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Long before Amelia Earhart became a superstar, she was a girl who longed to touch the stars. But th… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
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19. Best Nerds Forever

By: James Patterson

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When a lifelong friendship just isn't long enough, two friends connect from beyond the grave in thi… read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's Best Nerds Forever book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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20. Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet

By: Barbara Dee

4.17

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Twelve-year-old Haven Jacobs can’t stop thinking about the climate crisis. In fact, her anxiety abo… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Dee's Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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21. Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

By: KT Johnston

4.51

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A Junior Library Guild exclusive selection! Lis Hartel became paralyzed after contracting polio … read more

Similar categories in KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream book and KT Johnston's Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • middle grade
  • denmark
  • nonfiction
  • horses
  • sports
  • disability

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