7 Top historical books like On the Horizon by Lois Lowry

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On the Horizon

By: Lois Lowry

4.27

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

From Lois Lowry comes an account of the lives lost in two of WWII’s most infamous events: Pearl Har…

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1. The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

By: Jeanette Winter

4.17

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

"In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammad was 'Read.'"* --Alia Muhammad Baker Alia Muh… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winter's The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq book and Lois Lowry's On the Horizon

  • history
  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
"Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit."

-Jeanette Winter, The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

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2. The Tunnels of Cu Chi

By: Tom Mangold , John Penycate

4.05

Format: 302 pages, Mass Market Paperback

One of the more remarkable but little-known campaigns of the Vietnam War was fought inside the 200 … read more

Similar categories in Tom Mangold's The Tunnels of Cu Chi book and Lois Lowry's On the Horizon

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"I could smell the Viet Cong, really, I could smell Charlie. It wasn’t just his body sweat or the urine. There were times when I could hear the breathing, real quiet; you could hear a person breathe, …"

-Tom Mangold, The Tunnels of Cu Chi

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3. The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228

By: Dick Couch , Cliff Hollenbeck

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

With a postscript describing SEAL efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toug… read more

Similar categories in Dick Couch's The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 book and Lois Lowry's On the Horizon

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"In his Close Quarter Defense School training, Duane Dieter tells the platoon SEALs, “The truth of combat is; to fight is to risk death."

-Dick Couch, The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228

"Set the highest example. Remember, no one ever did anything absolutely right. Perfection is impossible, but striving for perfection is not. You have the power to do that."

-Dick Couch, The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228

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4. Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu

By: Bernard B. Fall , Robertson Dean

3.49

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

The 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu ranks with Stalingrad and Tet for what it ended (imperial ambition… read more

Similar categories in Bernard B. Fall's Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu book and Lois Lowry's On the Horizon

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

5. Each Kindness

By: E.B. Lewis , Jacqueline Woodson

3.56

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Each kindness makes the world a little better Chloe and her friends won't play with the new girl, M… read more

Similar categories in E.B. Lewis's Each Kindness book and Lois Lowry's On the Horizon

  • childrens
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6. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

By: Gary D. Schmidt

3.91

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

Not only is Turner Buckminster the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, he is shunned for… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • childrens
"Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches."

-Gary D. Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

"Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow i…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

7. Year of the Jungle

By: Suzanne Collins , James Proimos

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the… read more

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8. The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey

By: Louise Borden , Allan Drummond

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1940, Hans and Margret Rey fled their Paris home as the German army advanced. They began their h… read more

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9. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

Similar categories in Michael G. Kramer's A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two book and Lois Lowry's On the Horizon

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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10. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more

Similar categories in Dale A. Jenkins's Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway book and Lois Lowry's On the Horizon

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might ha…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

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11. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

By: K.G.E. Konkel

4.32

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more

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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

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12. 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

Similar categories in Andrea Beatriz Arango's Something Like Home book and Lois Lowry's On the Horizon

  • poetry
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook
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13. On the Horizon

By: Lois Lowry

4.27

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

From Lois Lowry comes an account of the lives lost in two of WWII’s most infamous events: Pearl Har… read more

Similar categories in Lois Lowry's On the Horizon book and Lois Lowry's On the Horizon

  • poetry
  • history
  • memoir
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Lois Lowry's On the Horizon

  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • world war ii
  • audiobook
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15. 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

Similar categories in Linda Sue Park's The One Thing You'd Save book and Lois Lowry's On the Horizon

  • poetry
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook
"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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16. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers (Mister Rogers Poetry Books)

By: Fred Rogers

4.34

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

For the first time ever, the songs from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood are collected here in a illustr… read more

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  • poetry
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Things Are Different: You never know the story By the cover of the book. You can’t tell what a dinner’s like By simply looking at the cook. It’s something everybody needs to know Way down deep inside…"

-Fred Rogers, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers (Mister Rogers Poetry Books)

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17. Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

By: Paul Scharre

3.80

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have wea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
  • audiobook
"In practice, the line between automatic, automated, and autonomous systems is still blurry. Often, the term “autonomous"

-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

"Machines can do many things, but they cannot create meaning. They cannot answer these questions for us. Machines cannot tell us what we value, what choices we should make. The world we are creating i…"

-Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

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18. Finally Heard (Finally Seen #2)

By: Kelly Yang

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes the sequel to Finally Seen in which … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Yang's Finally Heard (Finally Seen #2) book and Lois Lowry's On the Horizon

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • audiobook
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19. Within These Lines

By: Stephanie Morrill

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Evalina Cassano’s life in an Italian-American family in 1941 is everything it “should be” until she… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Morrill's Within These Lines book and Lois Lowry's On the Horizon

  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
  • audiobook
"As the brilliant sunset cools to gray, I vow my anger over blatant discrimination will not cool. As these rocks stay steady through season changes and time, so I will remain steady. I will not be sil…"

-Stephanie Morrill, Within These Lines

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20. Lark

By: Anthony McGowan

4.14

Format: 110 pages, None

Things are getting tense at home for Nicky and Kenny as they wait for a visit from their estranged … read more

Similar categories in Anthony McGowan's Lark book and Lois Lowry's On the Horizon

  • middle grade
  • childrens
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21. The Night Librarian: A Graphic Novel

By: Christopher Lincoln

3.93

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A graphic novel adventure in which two siblings, a mysterious Night Librarian, and a motley cast of… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens

8 must-read audiobook books like On the Horizon by Lois Lowry

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Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

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4.27

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4.04

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3.94

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Vera Brosgol

4.38

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Adam Gidwitz

4.17

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Kekla Magoon

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