10 must-read school books like World WarI: The Rest of the Story & How It Affects You Today by Richard J. Maybury

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World WarI: The Rest of the Story & How It Affects You Today

By: Richard J. Maybury

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

The explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 was the beginning of a chain reactio…

If you liked the school plot in World WarI: The Rest of the Story & How It Affects You Today by Richard J. Maybury , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Contender

By: Robert Lipsyte

3.64

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender. Alfred Brooks is scared. He's a highsc… read more

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  • school
"It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward. "

-Robert Lipsyte, The Contender

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2. The Moves Make the Man

By: Bruce Brooks

3.70

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Reverse spin, triple pump, reverse dribble, stutter step with twist to the left, stutter into jumpe… read more

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  • school
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3. Parallel Journeys

By: Eleanor H. Ayer , Alfons Heck , Helen Waterford

4.03

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their… read more

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  • history
  • school
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
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4. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

By: Melba Pattillo Beals

4.17

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

In this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful figu… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • school
"My mother was one of the first few blacks to integrate the University of Arkansas, graduating in 1954."

-Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

"The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence - to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences."

-Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

"Mother [Lois Marie Pattillo] began meeting with a few others from our community who were also determined to be admitted to the graduate school of education at the university."

-Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

"Grandma entertained us with reading or checkers or chess so we wouldn't bother Mother as she studied for her night-school exams. She was determined to complete her master's degree."

-Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

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5. China's Long March

By: Jean Fritz

4.32

Format: 632 pages, Hardcover

In 1986, Jean Fritz went to China and talked to survivors of the Long March. It is from their recol… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • school
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6. Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific In A Raft

By: Thor Heyerdahl

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

Five men in search of a mythical hero journey from Peru to Polynesia in this classic account of nau… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

7. The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope

By: David Kherdian

3.90

Format: 144 pages,

David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted b… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • school

8. How to Ruin Your Life By 30: Just Follow These 9 Easy Steps!

By: Steve Farrar

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

We all have an internal alarm clock that goes off when we're about to make a bad decision... Some o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • school
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9. World WarI: The Rest of the Story & How It Affects You Today

By: Richard J. Maybury

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

The explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 was the beginning of a chain reactio… read more

Similar categories in Richard J. Maybury's World WarI: The Rest of the Story & How It Affects You Today book and Richard J. Maybury's World WarI: The Rest of the Story & How It Affects You Today

  • world war i
  • history
  • school
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • economics

10. You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?

By: Jean Fritz , DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Turtleback

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11. Red Scarf Girl

By: Ji-li Jiang

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

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12. The Wednesday Wars

By: Gary D. Schmidt

2.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero.The Wednesday… read more

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13. Cry, the Beloved Country

By: Alan Paton

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, was an imm… read more

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14. The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass #1)

By: Ellen Klages

3.88

Format: 96 pages,

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15. The Fallacy Detective

By: Nathaniel Bluedorn , Hans Bluedorn

4.60

Format: None pages,

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16. Hope Was Here

By: Joan Bauer

4.01

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

When Hope and her aunt move to small-town Wisconsin to take over the local diner, Hope's not sure w… read more

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  • school
"The sad heart needs work to do."

-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

"Revenge of the Giant Grill Man."

-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

"Addie always keeps her promises. That's why my mother gave me to her."

-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

"a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter."

-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

17. The Great Gilly Hopkins

By: Katherine Paterson

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Watch out world! The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She's a foster kid who's been angry… read more

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18. God spoke Tibetan; the epic story of the men who gave the Bible to Tibet, the forbidden land

By: Allan Maberly

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This is the true story of the men who gave the Bible to the people of remote, forbidden Tibet in th… read more

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19. A Night Divided

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.34

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her… read more

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  • historical
  • war
"Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"If I don't stand for freedom, then I must sit in chains."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"If I cannot speak what I think, then it's a crime just to be me."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"Courage isn't knowing you can do something; it's only being willing to try . . ."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

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20. The Story That Cannot Be Told

By: J. Kasper Kramer

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade debut that weaves together folklore and history to tell the story of a girl finding … read more

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  • historical
  • school
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21. The Blackbird Girls

By: Anne Blankman

4.43

Format: None pages, None

On a spring morning in 1986, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry re… read more

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  • historical
"La distanza tra i veri amici non conta, quando l'amicizia continua nei loro cuori."

-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

"Distance between true friends doesn't matter when their friendship lives in their hearts"

-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

"Siamo su questa terra per essere gentili gli uni con gli altri. Gli esseri umani sono la lingua di Dio."

-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

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