Ambushed! The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield
By: Gail Jarrow
4.20
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
This title blends science, history, and medical mysteries to tell the story of the assassination an…
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1. Attack of the Black Rectangles
By: Amy Sarig King
4.21
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
"Why do they treat kids like we don't mean anything?"-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"If you're comfortable learning history, it's the wrong history."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"I love banned books. I used to read as many to you as I could when you were little, Mac."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"But if we want to change the world so it's good for everyone, it's important to talk about the truth."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
2. 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
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- history
- childrens
- true crime
- historical
- middle grade
- nonfiction
"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
3. 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
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- historical
- middle grade
- childrens
4. 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
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- 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
5. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration
By: Elizabeth Partridge
4.53
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration c… read more
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- history
- childrens
- historical
- middle grade
- nonfiction
6. Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe
By: Steve Sheinkin
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust—one in hiding in Hung… read more
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- biography
- history
- historical
- middle grade
- nonfiction
7. Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America
By: Margarita Longoria
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Twenty stand-alone short stories, essays, poems, and more from celebrated and award-winning authors… read more
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8. Plain Jane and the Mermaid
By: Vera Brosgol
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From Eisner Award winner Vera Brosgol comes an instant classic about courage, confidence, and inner… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
9. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
By: Tommie Smith
4.46
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
10. Elf Dog and Owl Head
By: M.T. Anderson
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Newbery Honor Book A magical adventure about a boy and his dog—or a dog and her boy—and a fore… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
11. Notes from a Young Black Chef
By: Kwame Onwuachi
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A memoir from “the most important chef in America” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) and chef of Tatiana,… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Like stolen labor, this stew became part of a Southern culture whose origins rest on the corrupt scaffolding of slavery."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
"Nothing is a turnoff like a New York City housing authority kitchen. People want to hear about that once you're successful, not when you're living in it."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
"Sometimes racism takes the form of ugly words and actions. Other times it remains unspoken, communicated by hostile looks and secret snickers. But the most corrosive form, and often the hardest to ad…"-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
12. Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
By: Steve Sheinkin
4.34
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Author Steve Sheinkin presents a follow up to his award-winning book Bomb: The Race to Build--and S… read more
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- american history
- history
- childrens
- historical
- middle grade
- nonfiction
13. Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
By: Susan Hood
4.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias "Anna") and her s… read more
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14. Falling Short
By: Ernesto Cisneros
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A novel about two best friends who must rely on each other in unexpected ways. Isaac and Marco a… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
15. The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life
By: Amy Butler Greenfield
4.24
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The true story about an American woman who pioneered codebreaking in WWI and WWII but was only rece… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
16. The Sheep, the Rooster, and the Duck
By: Matt Phelan
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Intoxicating . . . it will be hard for young readers to put down.” — New York Times Book Review “A… read more
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- middle grade
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17. From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
By: Paula Yoo
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- true crime
18. Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice
By: David S. Tatel
4.48
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
A memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years d… read more
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- biography
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19. Ambushed! The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield
By: Gail Jarrow
4.20
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
This title blends science, history, and medical mysteries to tell the story of the assassination an… read more
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- biography
- history
- childrens
- true crime
- historical
- presidents
- middle grade
- nonfiction
- science
20. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way
By: Fred C. Trump
4.07
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more
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- presidents
- biography
- nonfiction
21. Ensnared in the Wolf's Lair: Inside the 1944 Plot to Kill Hitler and the Ghost Children of His Revenge
By: Ann Bausum
4.04
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
"I've come on orders from Berlin to fetch the three children." --Gestapo agent, August 24, 1944With… read more
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