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Generation Brave: The Gen Z Kids Who Are Changing the World

Generation Brave

By: Kate Alexander
ISBN: 9781524860684
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
The LieOgraphy of Thomas Edison: The Absolutely Untrue, Totally Made Up, 100% Fake Life Story of the World’s Greatest Inventor

The LieOgraphy of Thomas Edison

By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by:
 Tracy Hill
ISBN: 9781939100474 
Fiction, 4-6, Biography
The Christmas Barn

The Christmas Barn

By: John and Jennifer Churchman
ISBN: 9781499810196
Fiction, 4-6, Memoir
The LieOgraphy of Babe Ruth: The Absolutely Untrue, Totally Made Up, 100% Fake Life Story of Baseball’s Greatest Slugger

The LieOgraphy of Babe Ruth

By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by:
 Tracy Hill
ISBN: 9781939100467 
Fiction, 4-6, Biography
RuPaul Charles (People of Pride Series)

RuPaul Charles (People of Pride Series)

By: Vincent Chen
ISBN: 9781499810172
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Seen: Edmonia Lewis

Seen

By: Jasmine Walls
Illustrated by:
 Bex Glendining
ISBN: 9781684156344
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
The Undefeated

The Undefeated

By: Kwame Alexander
Illustrated by:
 Kadir Nelson
ISBN: 9781328780966
Nonfiction, 7-12, Poetry
Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children

Survivors of the Holocaust

By: edited by Kath Shackleton
Illustrated by:
 Zane Whittingham
ISBN: 9781492688921
Nonficion, 7-12, History
Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

Rising Water

By: Marc Aronson
ISBN: 9781534444133
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime

It’s Trevor Noah

By: Trevor Noah
ISBN: 9780525582168
Nonfiction, Teen, Memoir
Queen of Tejano Music: Selena

Queen of Tejano Music

By: Sylvia Lopez
Illustrated by:
 Paola Escobar
ISBN: 9781499811421
Nonfiction, 4-6, Memoir, Picture Book
Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers’ Rights

Thanks to Frances Perkins

By: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by:
 Kristy Caldwell
ISBN: 9781682631362
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Before She Was Harriet

Before She Was Harriet

By: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Illustrated by:
 James E. Ransome
ISBN: 9780823420476
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Malala’s Magic Pencil

Malala’s Magic Pencil

By: Malala Yousafzai
Illustrated by:
 Kerascoët
ISBN: 9780316319577
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

Little Leaders

By: Vashti Harrison
ISBN: 9780316475112
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

Out of Wonder

By: Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, and Marjory Wentworth
Illustrated by:
 Ekua Holmes
ISBN: 9780763680947
Nonfiction, 7-12, Poetry
Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court

Becoming Kareem

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
ISBN: 9780316555388
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War

Most Dangerous

By: Steve Sheinkin
ISBN: 9781250180834
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
My Family Divided: One Girl’s Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope

My Family Divided

By: Diane Guerrero and Erica Moroz
ISBN: 9781250308788
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote

Roses and Radicals

By: Susan Zimet and Todd Hasak-Lowy
ISBN: 9780425291467
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler

By: Phillip Hoose
ISBN: 9780374300227
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, & the Fall of Imperial Russia

The Family Romanov

By: Candace Fleming
ISBN: 9780375867828
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

Vincent and Theo

By: Deborah Heiligman
ISBN: 9781250211064
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark

I Dissent

By: Debbie Levy
Illustrated by:
 Elizabeth Baddeley
ISBN: 9781481465595
Nonfiction, Biography, K-1 Grade
Trombone Shorty

Trombone Shorty

By: Troy Andrews
Illustrated by:
 Bryan Collier
ISBN: 9781419714658
Nonfiction, Biography, K-1 Grade
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions

Whoosh!

By: Chris Barton
Illustrated by:
 Don Tate
ISBN: 9781580892971
Fiction, Biography, K-1 Grade
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

Amelia Lost

By: Candace Fleming
ISBN: 9780593177846
Nonfiction, Biography, 2-3 Grade
Her Own Two Feet: A Rwandan Girl’s Brave Fight to Walk

Her Own Two Feet

By: Meredith Davis & Rebeka Uwitonze
ISBN: 9781338356373
Nonfiction, Biography, 2-3 Grade
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Science

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies

By: Joyce Sidman
ISBN: 9780544717138
Nonfiction, Biography, 2-3 Grade
The One and Only Ivan

The One and Only Ivan

By: Katherine Applegate
Illustrated by:
 Patricia Castelao
ISBN: 9780062641946
Nonfiction, Biography, 2-3 Grade
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?

What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?

By: Chris Barton
Illustrated by:
 Ekua Holmes
ISBN: 9781481465618
Nonfiction, Biography, 2-3 Grade
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

Women in Science

By: Rachel Ignotofsky
ISBN: 9781607749769
Nonfiction, Biography, 2-3 Grade
Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time

Girl Rising

By: Tanya Lee Stone
ISBN: 9780553511499
Nonfiction, Biography, 4-5 Grade
Legends, Icons & Rebels: Music that Changed the World

Legends, Icons & Rebels

By: Robbie Robertson et al.
ISBN: 9781101918685
Nonfiction, Biography, 4-5 Grade
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers

Lincoln’s Grave Robbers

By: Steve Sheinkin
ISBN: 9780545405720
Nonfiction, Mystery / Thriller, 4-5 Grade
Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls

Pathfinders

By: Tonya Bolden
ISBN: 9781419714559
Nonfiction, History, 4-5 Grade
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story

Sachiko

By: Caren Stelson
ISBN: 9781467789035
Nonfiction, History, 4-5 Grade
Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

Samurai Rising

By: Pamela S. Turner
Illustrated by:
 Gareth Hinds
ISBN: 9781580895842
Nonfiction, Biography, 4-5 Grade
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

By: William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Illustrated by:
 Anna Hymas
ISBN: 9781984816122
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality

This Promise of Change

By: Jo Ann Allen Boyce
Illustrated by:
 Debbie Levy
ISBN: 9781681198521
Nonfiction, History, 4-5 Grade
We Will Not Be Silent

We Will Not Be Silent

By: Russell Freedman
ISBN: 9780544223790
Nonfiction, Biography, 4-5 Grade
A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park

A Green Place to Be

By: Ashley Benham Yazdani
Illustrated by:
 Ashley Benham Yazdani
ISBN: 9780763696955
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation

A Place to Land

By: Barry Wittenstein
Illustrated by:
 Jerry Pinkney
ISBN: 9780823443314
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
A Royal Ride: Catherine the Great’s Great Invention

A Royal Ride

By: Kristen Fulton
Illustrated by:
 Lucy Fleming
ISBN: 9781481496575
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Away With Words: The Daring Story of Isabella Bird

Away With Words

By: Lori Mortensen
Illustrated by:
 Kristy Caldwell
ISBN: 9781682630051
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins

Brave Ballerina

By: Michelle Meadows
Illustrated by:
 Ebony Glenn
ISBN: 9781250127730
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Brave with Beauty: A Story of Afghanistan

Brave with Beauty

By: Maxine Rose Schur
Illustrated by:
 Patricia Grush, Robin Dewitt, and Golsa Yaghoobi
ISBN: 9781949528978
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Carter Reads the Newspaper

Carter Reads the Newspaper

By: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrated by:
 Don Tate
ISBN: 9781561459346
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963)

Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963)

By: Sharon Robinson
ISBN: 9781338282801
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln

Dancing Hands

By: Margarita Engle
Illustrated by:
 Rafael López
ISBN: 9781481487405
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Dear America: Young Readers’ Edition: The Story of an Undocumented Citizen

Dear America

By: Jose Antonio Vargas
ISBN: 9780062914590
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Fighter in Velvet Gloves : Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich

Fighter in Velvet Gloves

By: Annie Boochever and Roy Peratrovich
ISBN: 9781602233706
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Girl Under a Red Moon: Growing Up During China’s Cultural Revolution

Girl Under a Red Moon

By: Da Chen
ISBN: 9781338263862
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Groundbreaking Guys: 40 Men Who Became Great by Doing Good

Groundbreaking Guys

By: Stephanie True Peters
Illustrated by:
 Shamel Washington
ISBN: 9780316529419
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Her Own Two Feet: A Rwandan Girl’s Brave Fight to Walk

Her Own Two Feet

By: Meredith Davis
Illustrated by:
 Rebeka Uwitonze
ISBN: 9781338356373
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Ida B. Wells: Discovering History’s Heroes

Ida B. Wells

By: Diane Bailey
ISBN: 9781534424852
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace

Infinite Hope

By: Ashley Bryan
Illustrated by:
 Ashley Bryan
ISBN: 9781534404908
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Instructions Not Included: How a Team of Women Coded the Future

Instructions Not Included

By: Tami Lewis Brown and Debbie Loren Dunn
Illustrated by:
 Chelsea Beck
ISBN: 9781368011051
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way

It Began with a Page

By: Kyo Maclear
Illustrated by:
 Julie Morstad
ISBN: 9780062447623
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines

Just Like Rube Goldberg

By: Sarah Aronson
Illustrated by:
 Robert Neubecker
ISBN: 9781481476683
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Leading the Way: Women in Power

Leading the Way

By: Janet Howell and Theresa Howell
Illustrated by:
 Alexandra Bye and Kylie Akia
ISBN: 9781536208467
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Let ‘Er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People’s Champion

Let ‘Er Buck!

By: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Illustrated by:
 Gordon C. James
ISBN: 9781512498080
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial

Monument Maker

By: Linda Booth Sweeney
Illustrated by:
 Shawn Fields
ISBN: 9780884486435
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition

Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge

By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Van Cleve
ISBN: 9781534416178
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
O Captain, My Captain: Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War

O Captain, My Captain

By: Robert Burleigh
Illustrated by:
 Sterling Hundley
ISBN: 9781419733581
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist

Paper Son

By: Julie Leung
Illustrated by:
 Chris Sasaki
ISBN: 9781524771874
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré

Planting Stories

By: Anika Aldamuy Denise
Illustrated by:
 Paola Escobar
ISBN: 9780062748683
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Playlist: The Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound

Playlist

By: James Rhodes
Illustrated by:
 Martin O'Neill
ISBN: 9781536212143
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Prairie Boy: Frank Lloyd Wright Turns the Heartland into a Home

Prairie Boy

By: Barb Rosenstock
Illustrated by:
 Christopher Silas Neal
ISBN: 9781629794402
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Robert E. Lee: The Man, the Soldier, the Myth

Robert E. Lee

By: Brandon Marie Miller
ISBN: 9781629799100
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Sisters: Venus & Serena Williams

Sisters

By: Jeanette Winter
Illustrated by:
 Jeanette Winter
ISBN: 9781534431218
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Smile: How Young Charlie Chaplin Taught the World to Laugh (and Cry)

Smile

By: Gary Golio
Illustrated by:
 Ed Young
ISBN: 9780763697617
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air

Soaring Earth

By: Margarita Engle
ISBN: 9781534429536
Nonfiction, Teen, Memoir
Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War

Soldier for Equality

By: Duncan Tonatiuh
ISBN: 9781419736827
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children

Survivors of the Holocaust

By: Edited by Kath Shackleton
Illustrated by:
 Zane Whittingham
ISBN: 9781492688921
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Sweet Dreams, Sarah: From Slavery to Inventor

Sweet Dreams, Sarah

By: Vivian Kirkfield
Illustrated by:
 Chris Ewald
ISBN: 9781939547316
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon: The True Story of Alan Bean

The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon

By: Dean Robbins
Illustrated by:
 Sean Rubin
ISBN: 9781338259537
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
The Bluest of Blues: Anna Atkins and the First Book of Photographs

The Bluest of Blues

By: Fiona Robinson
ISBN: 9781419725517
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come

The Book Rescuer

By: Sue Macy
Illustrated by:
 Stacy Innerst
ISBN: 9781481472203
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons

The Crayon Man

By: Natascha Biebow
Illustrated by:
 Steven Salerno
ISBN: 9781328866844
Nonfiction, 4-6 / 7-12, Biography
The Far Away Brothers (Adapted for Young Adults): Two Teenage Immigrants Making a Life in America

The Far Away Brothers (Adapted for Young Adults)

By: Lauren Markham
ISBN: 9781984829771
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown

The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown

By: Mac Barnett
Illustrated by:
 Sarah Jacoby
ISBN: 9780062393449
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border

The Other Side

By: Juan Pablo Villalobos
ISBN: 9780374305734
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in Our Food and Drugs

The Poison Eaters

By: Gail Jarrow
ISBN: 9781629794389
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
The Undefeated

The Undefeated

By: Kwame Alexander
Illustrated by:
 Kadir Nelson
ISBN: 9781328780966
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality

This Promise of Change

By: Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy
ISBN: 9781681198521
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Thurgood

Thurgood

By: Jonah Winter
Illustrated by:
 Bryan Collier
ISBN: 9781524765330
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Titan and the Wild Boars: The True Cave Rescue of the Thai Soccer Team

Titan and the Wild Boars

By: Susan Hood and Pathana Sornhiran
Illustrated by:
 Dow Phumiruk
ISBN: 9780062907721
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Two Brothers, Four Hands: The Artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti

Two Brothers, Four Hands

By: Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
Illustrated by:
 Hadley Hooper
ISBN: 9780823441709
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Warhead: The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World

Warhead

By: Jeff Henigson
ISBN: 9780525647904
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults

We Are Here to Stay

By: Susan Kuklin
Illustrated by:
 Susan Kuklin
ISBN: 9780763678845
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
When Sue Found Sue: Sue Hendrickson Discovers Her T. Rex

When Sue Found Sue

By: Toni Buzzeo
Illustrated by:
 Diana Sudyka
ISBN: 9781419731631
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Who Did It First?: 50 Scientists, Artists, and Mathematicians Who Revolutionized the World

Who Did It First?

By: Julie Leung
Illustrated by:
 Caitlin Kuhwald
ISBN: 9781250211712
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Wild Horse Annie: Friend of the Mustangs

Wild Horse Annie

By: Tracey Fern
Illustrated by:
 Steven Salerno
ISBN: 9780374303068
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Wilma’s Way Home: The Life of Wilma Mankiller

Wilma’s Way Home

By: Doreen Rappaport
Illustrated by:
 Linda Kukuk
ISBN: 9781484747186
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Yes She Can: 10 Stories of Hope & Change from Young Female Staffers of the Obama White House

Yes She Can

By: Compiled by Molly Dillion
ISBN: 9781984848451
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Crayon Man

Crayon Man

By: Natascha Biebow
Illustrated by:
 Steven Salerno
ISBN: 9781328866844
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
From an Idea to Disney

From an Idea to Disney

By: Lowey Bundy Sichol
Illustrated by:
 C.S. Jennings
ISBN: 9781328453617
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Me and the Sky

Me and the Sky

By: Beverly Bass with Cynthia Williams
Illustrated by:
 Joanie Stone
ISBN: 9780525645498
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
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