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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
Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

Rising Water

By: Marc Aronson
ISBN: 9781534444133
Fiction, 7-12, Biography
Superpower Dogs

Superpower Dogs

By: Cosmic
ISBN: 9780316453592
Nonfiction, 4-6, 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, 7-12, Biography
The Eternal Soldier: The True Story of How a Dog Became a Civil War Hero

The Eternal Soldier

By: Allison Crotzer Kimmel
Illustrated by:
 Rotem Teplow
ISBN: 9781499808636
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
The Girl Who Named Pluto

The Girl Who Named Pluto

By: Alice B. McGinty
Illustrated by:
 Elizabeth Haidle
ISBN: 9781524768317
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
Undefeated

Undefeated

By: Kwame Alexander
Illustrated by:
 Kadir Nelson
ISBN: 9781328780966
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
Before They Were Authors

Before They Were Authors

By: Elizabeth Haidle
ISBN: 9781328801531
Nonfiction, Teen, History
Fly Girls Young Readers’ Edition

Fly Girls Young Readers’ Edition

By: Keith O'Brien
ISBN: 9781328618429
Nonfiction, Teen, History
Life Sucks

Life Sucks

By: Michael I. Bennett and Sarah Bennett
Illustrated by:
 Bridget Gibson
ISBN: 9781524787905
Nonfiction, Teen, Memoir
SHOUT

SHOUT

By: Laurie Halse Anderson
ISBN: 9780670012107
Nonfiction, Teen, Memoir
A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon

A Computer Called Katherine

By: Suzanne Slade
Illustrated by:
 Veronica Miller Jamison
ISBN: 9780316435178
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World

All in a Drop

By: Lori Alexander
Illustrated by:
 Vivien Mildenberger
ISBN: 9781328884206
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Anna & Samia: The True Story of Saving a Black Rhino

Anna & Samia

By: Paul Meisel
ISBN: 9780374305772
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician

Counting the Stars

By: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Illustrated by:
 Raúl Colón
ISBN: 9781534404755
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Darwin: An Exceptional Voyage

Darwin

By: Fabien Grolleau
Illustrated by:
 Jérémie Royer
ISBN: 9781910620502
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer

Dreaming in Code

By: Emily Arnold McCully
ISBN: 9780763693565
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Evelyn the Adventurous Entomologist: The True Story of a World-Traveling Bug Hunter

Evelyn the Adventurous Entomologist

By: Christine Evans
Illustrated by:
 Yasmin Imamura
ISBN: 9781943147663
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Hawking

Hawking

By: Jim Ottaviani
Illustrated by:
 Leland Myrick
ISBN: 9781626720251
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor

Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life

By: Laurie Wallmark
Illustrated by:
 Katy Wu
ISBN: 9781454926917
Nonfiction, 7-12, 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
Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our Planet

Mario and the Hole in the Sky

By: Elizabeth Rusch
Illustrated by:
 Teresa Martínez
ISBN: 9781580895811
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Mario y el agujero en el cielo: Cómo un químico salvó nuestro planeta

Mario y el agujero en el cielo

By: Elizabeth Rusch
Illustrated by:
 Teresa Martínez
ISBN: 9781580895828
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Pollen: Darwin’s 130-Year Prediction

Pollen

By: Darcy Pattison
Illustrated by:
 Peter Willis
ISBN: 9781629441191
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge

Secret Engineer

By: Rachel Dougherty
Illustrated by:
 Rachel Dougherty
ISBN: 9781250155320
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
The Electric War: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Light the World

The Electric War

By: Mike Winchell
ISBN: 9781250120168
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, Science
Undaunted: The Wild Life of Biruté Mary Galdikas and Her Fearless Quest to Save Orangutans

Undaunted

By: Anita Silvey
ISBN: 9781426333569
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography
What Miss Mitchell Saw

What Miss Mitchell Saw

By: Hayley Barrett
Illustrated by:
 Diana Sudyka
ISBN: 9781481487597
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon

A Computer Called Katherine

By: Suzanne Slade
Illustrated by:
 Veronica Miller Jamison
ISBN: 9780316435178
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
A Dream of Flight: Alberto Santos-Dumont’s Race Around the Eiffel Tower

A Dream of Flight

By: Jef Polivka and Rob Polivka
Illustrated by:
 Rob Polivka
ISBN: 9780374306618
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
All in a Drop

All in a Drop

By: Lori Alexander
Illustrated by:
 Vivien Mildenberger
ISBN: 9781328884206
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
Born Just Right

Born Just Right

By: Jordan Reeves and Jen Lee Reeves
ISBN: 9781534428386
Nonfiction, 7-12, Memoir
Buzzing with Questions the Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner

Buzzing with Questions the Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner

By: Janice N. Harrington
Illustrated by:
 Theodore Taylor III
ISBN: 9781629795584
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Crayon Man

Crayon Man

By: Natascha Biebow
Illustrated by:
 Steven Salerno
ISBN: 9781328866844
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography
Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World

Elon Musk

By: Anna Crowley Redding
ISBN: 9781250313621
Nonfiction, Teen, Science
From an Idea to Lego: The Building Bricks Behind the World’s Largest Toy Company

From an Idea to Lego

By: Lowey Bundy Sichol
Illustrated by:
 C.S. Jennings
ISBN: 9781328954930
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Full of Beans Henry Ford Grows a Car

Full of Beans Henry Ford Grows a Car

By: Peggy Thomas
Illustrated by:
 Edwin Fotheringham
ISBN: 9781629796390
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
Guitar Genius: How Les Paul Engineered the Solid-Body Electric Guitar and Rocked the World

Guitar Genius

By: Kim Tomsic
Illustrated by:
 Brett Helquist
ISBN: 9781452159195
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
How to Become and Accidental Genius

How to Become and Accidental Genius

By: Elizabeth MacLeod & Frieda Wishinsky
Illustrated by:
 Jenn Playford
ISBN: 9781459816763
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
Instructions Not Included: How a Team of Women Coded the Future

Instructions Not Included

By: Tami Lewis Brown, Debbie Loren Dunn
Illustrated by:
 Chelsea Beck
ISBN: 9781368011051
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
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
Samuel Morse, That’s Who!: The Story of the Telegraph and Morse Code

Samuel Morse, That’s Who!

By: Tracy Nelson Maurer
Illustrated by:
 El Primo Ramón
ISBN: 9781627791304
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
Save the Crash-test Dummies

Save the Crash-test Dummies

By: Jennifer Swanson
Illustrated by:
 TeMika Grooms
ISBN: 9781682630228
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
The Electric War: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Light the World

The Electric War

By: Mike Winchell
ISBN: 9781250120168
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge

Secret Engineer

By: Rachel Dougherty
ISBN: 9781250155320
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
The House That Cleaned Itself: The True Story of Frances Gabe’s (Mostly) Marvelous Invention

The House That Cleaned Itself

By: Laura Dershewitz and Susan Romberg
Illustrated by:
 Meghann Rader
ISBN: 9781943147656
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
Titan and the Wild Boars: The True Cave Rescue of the Thai Soccer Team

Titan and the Wild Boars

By: Susan Hood & Pathana Sornhiran
Illustrated by:
 Dow Phumiruk
ISBN: 9780062907721
Nonfiction, 4-6, Action / Adventure
Meredith Foster: Fostering Your Best Self

Meredith Foster

By: Meredith Foster
Illustrated by:
 n/a
ISBN: 9781499810301
Nonfiction, Teen, How-to / Activity
I Am Not a Label

I Am Not a Label

By: Cerrie Burnell
Illustrated by:
 Lauren Mark Baldo
ISBN: 9780711247451
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography
My Book About Me, by ME, Myself

My Book About Me, by ME, Myself

By: Dr. Seuss
Illustrated by:
 Roy McKie
ISBN: 9780394800936
Nonfiction, Biography, 4-6
Kindergarten Hat

Kindergarten Hat

By: Janet Lawler
Illustrated by:
 Geraldine Rodriquez
ISBN: 9781499809893
Fiction, Biography, 4-6
Greta Thurnberg

Greta Thurnberg

By: Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Illustrated by:
 Anke Weckmann
ISBN: 9780711256453
Nonfiction, Biography, 4-6
The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor

The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor

By: Alznauer, Amy
ISBN: 9781592702954
Nonfiction, biography, history, 4-6
Drawing On Walls: A Story of Keith Haring

Drawing On Walls

By: Burgess, Matthew
ISBN: 9781592702671
Nonfiction, biography, history, 4-6
Alphamaniacs

Alphamaniacs

By: Melissa Sweet
Illustrated by:
 Paul Fleischman
ISBN: 9780763690663
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