7 must-read historical books like Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You've Never Heard Of by Helaine Becker

Cover of Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You've Never Heard Of by Helaine Becker

Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You've Never Heard Of

By: Helaine Becker

4.09

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

In this engaging and inspiring biography, a groundbreaking but relatively unknown woman finally get…

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Cover of The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists, 1) by Julia Finley Mosca, Daniel Rieley

1. The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists, 1)

By: Julia Finley Mosca , Daniel Rieley

4.38

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

If you’ve ever felt different, if you’ve ever been low, if you don’t quite fit in, there’s a name … read more

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  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1) by Nancy Springer

2. The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1)

By: Nancy Springer

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

When Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has d… read more

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  • historical
Cover of The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz, Hatem Aly

3. The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog

By: Adam Gidwitz , Hatem Aly

4.00

Format: None pages,

An exciting and hilarious medieval adventure from the bestselling author of A Tale Dark and Grimm. … read more

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  • historical
  • childrens
Cover of What Do You Do with a Problem? by Kobi Yamada, Mae Besom

4. What Do You Do with a Problem?

By: Kobi Yamada , Mae Besom

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

From the same author and illustrator as our #1 nationally best-selling What Do You Do With an Idea?… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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5. A Chair for My Mother

By: Vera B. Williams

4.22

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

After their home is destroyed by a fire, Rosa, her mother and grandmother save their coins to buy a… read more

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  • mathematics
  • picture books
  • childrens
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6. Homer Price

By: Robert McCloskey

4.09

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; wh… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
"By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, doughnuts piled high on the shelves, doughnuts stac…"

-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

"Homer got down from the chair and pushed a button on the machine marked, "start". Rings of batter started dropping into the hot fat. After a ring of batter was cooked on one side, an automatic gadget…"

-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

7. The Invisible Boy

By: Patrice Barton , Trudy Ludwig

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

Meet Brian, the invisible boy. Nobody ever seems to notice him or think to include him in their gro… read more

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8. One Grain Of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale

By: Demi

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

A reward of one grain of rice doubles day by day into millions of grains of rice when a selfish raj… read more

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Cover of Penric’s Demon (Penric and Desdemona, #1) by Lois McMaster Bujold

9. Penric’s Demon (Penric and Desdemona, #1)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.20

Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition

On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on… read more

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Cover of Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1) by Patricia MacLachlan

10. Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

By: Patricia MacLachlan

3.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter… read more

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  • historical
  • childrens
"I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

"There are always things to miss," said Maggie. "No matter where you are."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

"My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound sea the water is a color for which there is no name."

-Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

11. Rosie Revere, Engineer

By: David Roberts , Andrea Beaty

4.34

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she's a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets … read more

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12. Knight Owl (The Knight Owl Series, 1)

By: Christopher Denise

4.51

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A Caldecott Honor Winner and  New York Times  Bestseller!  A determined Owl builds strength and … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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13. Watercress

By: Andrea Wang

4.53

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Gathering watercress by the side of the road brings a girl closer to her family's Chinese Heritage.… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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14. Because

By: Mo Willems

4.31

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Mo Willems, a number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, composes a powerful sy… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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15. Prairie Lotus

By: Linda Sue Park

4.29

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Prairie Lotus is a book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an educat… read more

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  • historical
  • childrens
Cover of Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1) by Katherine Arden

16. Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

By: Katherine Arden

4.01

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debu… read more

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  • childrens
"You might get to know characters in books, Ollie thought, but getting to know a human was an entirely different thing."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

"You don't waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow."

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

"Other than her homework, Ollie was carrying Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, a broken-spined paperback that she'd dug out of he dad's bookshelves. She mostly liked it. Peter Blood outsmarted everyon…"

-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)

Cover of A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1) by Alix E. Harrow

17. A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.62

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she… read more

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"Well, Harold,"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

"If you like something, like it hard, because you don't have a lot of time to waste"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

"I should have spent more time thinking about your life than worrying about your death."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

"I never stopped trying to save you, so don't you fucking dare stop trying to save yourself."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

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18. The Smart Cookie (The Food Group #5)

By: Jory John

4.31

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

This cookie has never felt like a smart cookie no matter how hard she tries, especially in comparis… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1) by Helene Tursten

19. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1)

By: Helene Tursten

3.76

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781641290111 Content: - An elderly lady has accommodation prob… read more

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"Maud placed two small cartons of rollmops in the basket of her wheeled walker, followed by a larger pack of herring salad. They were soon joined by a Stilton cheese in a blue porcelain pot, a mature …"

-Helene Tursten, An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1)

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20. The Sour Grape (The Food Group #6)

By: Jory John

4.40

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

The Sour Grape holds grudges for every reason under the sun. Lime never returned a scarf they borro… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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21. The Couch Potato (The Food Group #4)

By: Jory John

4.36

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

The Couch Potato has everything he needs within reach of his sunken couch cushion. But when the ele… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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22. Odder

By: Katherine Applegate

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Meet Odder, the Queen of Play: Nobody has her moves. She doesn't just swim to the bottom, s… read more

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  • childrens
Cover of The Good Egg (The Food Group #2) by Jory John

23. The Good Egg (The Food Group #2)

By: Jory John

4.35

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

In this follow-up to Jory John and Pete Oswald’s popular picture book The Bad Seed, meet the next b… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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24. A Walk in the Words

By: Hudson Talbott

4.33

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

When Hudson Talbott was a little boy, he loved drawing, and it came naturally to him. But reading? … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons by Natascha Biebow

25. The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons

By: Natascha Biebow

4.36

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Celebrating the inventor of the Crayola crayon! This picture book biography tells the story of Edwi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • historical
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

26. Your Name Is a Song

By: Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

4.56

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little gir… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of The One Thing You'd Save by Linda Sue Park

27. The One Thing You'd Save

By: Linda Sue Park

3.94

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

If your house were on fire, what one thing would you save? Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park explores… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
"Ages ago my gran knitted a sweater for my dad. He wore it and wore it and wore it right out. Then my other gran, who lives with us, unraveled it and knitted a new sweater for me. So I'd save that swe…"

-Linda Sue Park, The One Thing You'd Save

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28. Let the Children March

By: Monica Clark-Robinson

4.56

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

I couldn't play on the same playground as the white kids. I couldn't go to their schools. I could… read more

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  • historical
  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of When Things Aren't Going Right, Go Left by Marc Colagiovanni

29. When Things Aren't Going Right, Go Left

By: Marc Colagiovanni

4.38

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

From #1 New York Times bestselling creator Peter H. Reynolds and talented debut author Marc Colagio… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight: Patsy Takemoto Mink and the Fight for Title IX by Jen Bryant

30. Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight: Patsy Takemoto Mink and the Fight for Title IX

By: Jen Bryant

4.23

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

This picture book biography is about Patsy Mink, the first woman of color elected to Congress. Publ… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
Cover of Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You've Never Heard Of by Helaine Becker

31. Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You've Never Heard Of

By: Helaine Becker

4.09

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

In this engaging and inspiring biography, a groundbreaking but relatively unknown woman finally get… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • childrens
  • jewish
  • historical
  • mathematics
  • picture books
  • germany
  • nonfiction
  • science

24 Top childrens books like Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You've Never Heard Of by Helaine Becker

Transform Your Habits

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists, 1)

Julia Finley Mosca , Daniel Rieley

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog

Adam Gidwitz , Hatem Aly

4.00

Transform Your Habits

What Do You Do with a Problem?

Kobi Yamada , Mae Besom

4.83

Transform Your Habits

A Chair for My Mother

Vera B. Williams

4.22

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Vashti Harrison

4.66

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Doug Salati

4.29

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Christopher Denise

4.51

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Michaela Goade

4.43

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