What Isabella Wanted: Isabella Stewart Gardner Builds a Museum
By: Candace Fleming
3.98
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
From multiple award-winning author Candace Fleming and Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell comes the…
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1. The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game
By: Jez Tuya , Nancy Churnin
4.41
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Winner - 2017 Storytelling World Resource Award Honor BookFinalist - 2017 North Texas Book Festival… read more
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- biography
- history
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- historical
- picture books
- biography memoir
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2. Noah Webster's Fighting Words
By: Tracy Nelson Maurer , Mircea Catusanu
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Noah Webster - famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language as spoken in the Uni… read more
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- history
- biography
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- historical
- picture books
- biography memoir
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3. John Ronald's Dragons: The Story of J. R. R. Tolkien
By: Eliza Wheeler , Caroline McAlister
3.25
Format: 40 pages,
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4. 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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- 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
5. 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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- art
- history
- childrens
- historical
- 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
6. Something Like Home
By: Andrea Beatriz Arango
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Library Binding
A novel in verse in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only f… read more
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- childrens
7. Love in the Library
By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall
4.47
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Set in an internment camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII a… read more
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- historical
- picture books
- childrens
8. The Fort
By: Gordon Korman
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of RESTART, the story of a middle-school "band of brothers" -- five fri… read more
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9. Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual
By: Carole Boston Weatherford
4.46
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A picture book based on the popular spiritual. The classic lyrics have been reworked to chronicle t… read more
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- history
- childrens
- historical
- picture books
- nonfiction
10. Snail Crossing
By: Corey R. Tabor
4.32
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A determined snail. A plump cabbage. A truly epic journey . . . In a book as cheerful and … read more
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- juvenile
11. Tree. Table. Book.
By: Lois Lowry
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well… read more
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- childrens
12. Maizy Chen's Last Chance
By: Lisa Yee
4.29
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to The Golden Palace! Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota. . . until now. Her… read more
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- historical
- childrens
- juvenile
"When you're in a position to help, that means you're in a good place in your own life."-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance
"Sometimes people don't know their dreams until they're in it. Other times, their dreams escape them because they are too busy being busy."-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance
13. Beautiful Shades of Brown: Laura Wheeler Waring, Artist
By: Nancy Churnin
4.32
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in the late 19th century, Laura Wheeler Waring didn't see any artists who looked like he… read more
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- biography
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- biography memoir
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- juvenile
14. Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
By: Sarah Weinman
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murde… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- biography
- history
15. I Want to Be Spaghetti!
By: Kiera Wright-Ruiz
4.16
Format: None pages, None
A funny debut picture book about how one little ramen packet finds self-love and belonging in a spa… read more
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- childrens
16. The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver
By: Gene Barretta
4.37
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
The story of George Washington Carver and his childhood secret garden is brought to life in this pi… read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
17. Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
By: Jeff Gottesfeld
4.57
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
With every step, the Tomb Guards pay homage to America’s fallen. Discover their story, and that of … read more
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- nonfiction
18. Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea
By: Meena Harris
4.18
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
One day, Kamala and Maya had an idea. A big idea: they would turn their empty apartment courtyard i… read more
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19. Being Home
By: Traci Sorell
4.18
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
From Sibert honor–winning author Traci Sorell and Caldecott Medal–winning artist Michaela Goade com… read more
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20. What Isabella Wanted: Isabella Stewart Gardner Builds a Museum
By: Candace Fleming
3.98
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
From multiple award-winning author Candace Fleming and Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell comes the… read more
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