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Lighter Than Air

Lighter Than Air

By: Matthew Clark Smith
Illustrated by:
 Matt Tavares
ISBN: 9780763677329
Voice of Freedom

Voice of Freedom

By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrated by:
 Ekua Holmes
ISBN: 9780763665319
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)

Wheels of Change

By: Sue Macy
ISBN: 9781426328558
Nonfiction, 7-12, History
Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall

Untamed

By: Anita Silvey; Foreward by Jane Goodall
ISBN: 9781426315183
The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: the Story of Dr. Patricia Bath

The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes

By: Julia Finley Mosca
Illustrated by:
 Daniel Rieley
ISBN: 9781943147311
Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist

Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells

By: Philip Dray
Illustrated by:
 Stephen Alcorn
ISBN: 9781561454174
Mama Africa!

Mama Africa!

By: Kathryn Erskine
Illustrated by:
 Charly Palmer
ISBN: 9780374303013
Ada’s Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer

Ada’s Ideas

By: Fiona Robinson
ISBN: 9781419718724
Preaching to the Chickens

Preaching to the Chickens

By: Jabari Asim
Illustrated by:
 E.B. Lewis
ISBN: 9780399168567
The Life and Times of Martin Luther

The Life and Times of Martin Luther

By: Meike Roth-Beck
Illustrated by:
 Klaus Ensikat
ISBN: 9780802854957
Radioactive!: How Irene Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World

Radioactive!

By: Winifred Conkling
ISBN: 9781616204150
National Geographic Readers: Ibn al-Haytham

National Geographic Readers

By: Libby Romero
ISBN: 9781426325007
What’s the Big Deal About First Ladies?

What’s the Big Deal About First Ladies?

By: Ruby Shamir
Illustrated by:
 Matt Faulkner
ISBN: 9780399547249
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures

By: Julia Finley Mosca
Illustrated by:
 Daniel Rieley
ISBN: 9781943147304
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Red Cloud: A Lakota Story of War and Surrender

Red Cloud

By: S.D Nelson
ISBN: 9781419723131
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams

A River of Words

By: Jen Bryant
Illustrated by:
 Melissa Sweet
ISBN: 9780802853028
Martina and Chrissie

Martina and Chrissie

By: Phil Bildner
Illustrated by:
 Brett Helquist
ISBN: 9780763673086
The Book of Heroes

The Book of Heroes

By: Crispin Boyer
ISBN: 9781426325533
What’s the Big Deal About Freedom?

What’s the Big Deal About Freedom?

By: Ruby Shamir
Illustrated by:
 Matt Faulkner
ISBN: 9780399547287
Babe Conquers the World: The Legendary Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Babe Conquers the World

By: Rich Wallace and Sandra Neil Wallace
ISBN: 9781590789810
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March

We’ve Got a Job

By: Cynthia Levinson
ISBN: 9781561456277
Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America

Alexander Hamilton

By: Teri Kanefield
ISBN: 9781419725784
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus

The Right Word

By: Jen Bryant
Illustrated by:
 Melissa Sweet
ISBN: 9780802853851
Kate Warne, Pinkerton Detective

Kate Warne, Pinkerton Detective

By: Marissa Moss
Illustrated by:
 April Chu
ISBN: 9781939547330
The Book of Heroines

The Book of Heroines

By: Stephanie Warren Drimmer
ISBN: 9781426325571
Schomburg

Schomburg

By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrated by:
 Eric Velasquez
ISBN: 9780763680466
I Am Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Am Martin Luther King, Jr.

By: Brad Meltzer
Illustrated by:
 Christopher Eliopoulos
ISBN: 9780525428527
Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz

Surviving the Angel of Death

By: Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri
ISBN: 9781933718576
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By: Jonah Winter
Illustrated by:
 Stacy Innerst
ISBN: 9781419725593
Simone Biles

Simone Biles

By: James Buckley Jr.
ISBN: 9781684022410
Danza!

Danza!

By: Duncan Tonatiuh
ISBN: 9781419725326
Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories

Writing Radar

By: Jack Gantos
ISBN: 9780374304560
Nonfiction, 7-12, How-To / Activity
Bet You Didn’t Know: Fascinating, Far-out, Fun-tastic Facts!

Bet You Didn’t Know

By: National Geographic Kids
ISBN: 9781426328374
The World is Not a Rectangle

The World is Not a Rectangle

By: Jeanette Winter
ISBN: 9781481446693
Weird But True Know-It-All: U.S. Presidents

Weird But True Know-It-All

By: Brianna DuMont
ISBN: 9781426327964
Pablo Pineda: Being Different is a Value (English edition)

Pablo Pineda

By: Albert Bosch and María Salas
Illustrated by:
 Silvia Álvarez
ISBN: 9788416733231
Evelyn Cameron: Photographer on the Western Prairie

Evelyn Cameron

By: Lorna Milne
ISBN: 9780878426751
Choose to Matter: Being Courageously and Fabulously YOU

Choose to Matter

By: Julie Foudy
ISBN: 9781368003384
Lopez Lomong (English version)

Lopez Lomong (English version)

By: Ana Eulate
Illustrated by:
 Nívola Uyá
ISBN: 9788416733156
The Dead Inside

The Dead Inside

By: Cyndy Etler
ISBN: 9781492635734
Shark Lady

Shark Lady

By: Jess Keating
Illustrated by:
 Marta Alvarez Miguens
ISBN: 9781492642046
Audubon, On The Wings Of The World

Audubon, On The Wings Of The World

By: Fabien Grolleau
Illustrated by:
 Jérémie Royer
ISBN: 9781910620151
Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America

Alexander Hamilton

By: Teri Kanefield
ISBN: 9781419725784
Karl, Get Out of the Garden!

Karl, Get Out of the Garden!

By: Anita Sanchez
Illustrated by:
 Catherine Stock
ISBN: 9781580896061
The Hole Story of the Doughnut

The Hole Story of the Doughnut

By: Pat Miller
Illustrated by:
 Vincent X. Kirsch
ISBN: 9780544319615
Bold Women in Montana History

Bold Women in Montana History

By: Beth Judy
ISBN: 9780878426768
Malala: Activist for Girls’ Education

Malala

By: Raphaelle Frier
Illustrated by:
 Aurelia Fronty
ISBN: 9781580897853
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

Out of Wonder

By: Kwame Alexander; Chris Colderley
Illustrated by:
 Ekua Holmes
ISBN: 9780763680947
100 Women Who Made History

100 Women Who Made History

By: DK
ISBN: 9781465456885
Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees

Wangari Maathai

By: Franck Prévot
Illustrated by:
 Aurélia Fronty
ISBN: 9781580896269
The Inventor’s Secret: What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford

The Inventor’s Secret

By: Suzanne Slade
Illustrated by:
 Jennifer Black Reinhardt
ISBN: 9781580896672
Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine

Fearless Flyer

By: Heather Lang
Illustrated by:
 Raul Colon
ISBN: 9781620916506
Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator Is Changing the World

Breakthrough

By: Jake Andraka with Matthew Lysiak
ISBN: 9780062369659
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Ben Franklin’s Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention

Ben Franklin’s Big Splash

By: Barb Rosenstock
Illustrated by:
 S.D. Schindler
ISBN: 9781620914465
Ada’s Ideas

Ada’s Ideas

By: Fiona Robinson
ISBN: 9781419718724
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer

Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science

By: Diane Stanley
Illustrated by:
 Jessie Hartland
ISBN: 9781481452496
Women Who Launched the Computer Age

Women Who Launched the Computer Age

By: Laurie Calkhoven
Illustrated by:
 Alyssa Petersen
ISBN: 9781481470476
Undefeated

Undefeated

By: Steve Sheinkin
ISBN: 9781596439542
Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali

By: Gene Barretta
Illustrated by:
 Frank Morrison
ISBN: 9780062430168
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne

The Legendary Miss Lena Horne

By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrated by:
 Elizabeth Zunon
ISBN: 9781481468244
The Youngest Marcher

The Youngest Marcher

By: Cynthia Levinson
Illustrated by:
 Vanessa Brantley Newton
ISBN: 9781481400701
Life in Motion

Life in Motion

By: Misty Copeland
ISBN: 9781481479790
Radiant Child

Radiant Child

By: Javaka Steptoe
ISBN: 9780316213882
Comics Confidential

Comics Confidential

By: Leonard S. Marcus
ISBN: 9780763659387
Women Heroes of World War II—The Pacific Theater

Women Heroes of World War II—The Pacific Theater

By: Kathryn J. Atwood
ISBN: 9781613731680
Marie Curie for Kids

Marie Curie for Kids

By: Amy O'Quinn
ISBN: 9781613733202
The Book of Heroines

The Book of Heroines

By: Stephanie Warren Drimmer
ISBN: 9781426325571
Preaching to the Chickens

Preaching to the Chickens

By: Jabari Asim
Illustrated by:
 E.B. Lewis
ISBN: 9780399168567
Charles Darwin’s Around-the-World Adventure

Charles Darwin’s Around-the-World Adventure

By: Jennifer Thermes
ISBN: 9781419721205
Every Falling Star

Every Falling Star

By: Sungju Lee and Susan McClelland
ISBN: 9781419721328
Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall

Untamed

By: Anita Silvey
ISBN: 9781426315183
Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan

Lost Boy, Lost Girl

By: John Bul Dau and Martha Arual Akech with Michael S. Sweeney and Karen M. Kostyal
ISBN: 9781426307089
Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White

Some Writer!

By: Melissa Sweet
ISBN: 9780544319592
Christmas from Heaven: The True Story of the Berlin Candy Bomber

Christmas from Heaven

By: Tom Brokaw
Illustrated by:
 Robert T. Barrett
ISBN: 9781609077006
Shackleton’s Journey

Shackleton’s Journey

By: William Grill
Illustrated by:
 William Grill
ISBN: 9781909263109
Looking Back

Looking Back

By: Lois Lowry
ISBN: 9780544807969
National Geographic Readers: Ibn al-Haytham

National Geographic Readers

By: Libby Romero
ISBN: 9781426325007
Let Your Voice Be Heard: The Life and Times of Pete Seeger

Let Your Voice Be Heard

By: Anita Silvey
ISBN: 9780547330129
Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed his Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service

Mountain Chef

By: Annette Bay Pimental
Illustrated by:
 Rich Lo
ISBN: 9781580897112
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen

Being Jazz

By: Jazz Jennings
ISBN: 9780399554643
Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower

Tricky Vic

By: Greg Pizzoli
ISBN: 9780670016525
Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still

Nadia

By: Karlin Gray
Illustrated by:
 Christine Davenier
ISBN: 9780544319608
Weird but True Sports

Weird but True Sports

By: National Geographic Kids
ISBN: 9781426324673
Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong

Just a Lucky So and So

By: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Illustrated by:
 James E. Ransome
ISBN: 9780823434282
Gabe: A Story of Me, My Dog, and the 1970s

Gabe

By: Shelley Gill
Illustrated by:
 Marc Scheff
ISBN: 9781570913549
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super Stream of Inventions

Whoosh!

By: Chris Barton
Illustrated by:
 Don Tate
ISBN: 9781580892971
Will’s Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk

Will’s Words

By: Jane Sutcliffe
Illustrated by:
 John Shelley
Mercy

Mercy

By: Nancy Furstinger
Illustrated by:
 Vincent Desjardins
ISBN: 9780544650312
Hatshepsut of Egypt

Hatshepsut of Egypt

By: Shirin Yim Bridges
Illustrated by:
 Albert Nguyen
ISBN: 9780984509805
Artemisia of Carria

Artemisia of Carria

By: Shirin Yim Bridges
Illustrated by:
 Albert Nguyen
ISBN: 9780984509812
Njinga: “The Warrior Queen”

Njinga

By: Janie Havemeyer
Illustrated by:
 Peter Malone
ISBN: 9780983425663
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch

The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch

By: Chris Barton
Illustrated by:
 Don Tate
ISBN: 9780802853790
The Kid from Diamond Street

The Kid from Diamond Street

By: Audrey Vernick
Illustrated by:
 Steven Salerno
ISBN: 9780544611634
Bobbie the Wonder Dog

Bobbie the Wonder Dog

By: Tricia Brown
Illustrated by:
 Carey Porter
ISBN: 9781943328369
Frida Kahlo (Little People, Big Dreams)

Frida Kahlo (Little People, Big Dreams)

By: Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Illustrated by:
 Gee Fan Eng
ISBN: 9781847807830
Voice of Freedom

Voice of Freedom

By: Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrated by:
 Ekua Holmes
ISBN: 9780763665319
Facing the Lion

Facing the Lion

By: Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton with Herman Viola
ISBN: 9780792272977
Bold Women in Indiana History

Bold Women in Indiana History

By: Louise Hillery
ISBN: 9780878426553
How To Be Human: Diary of an Autistic Girl

How To Be Human

By: Florida Frenz
ISBN: 9781939547019
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