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Kisses for Jet

Kisses for Jet

By: Joris Bas Backer
Illustrated by:
 Joris Bas Backer
ISBN: 9781913123031
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Hummingbird Heart

Hummingbird Heart

By: Travis Dandro
Illustrated by:
 Travis Dandro
ISBN: 9781770465626
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Celia Planted a Garden

Celia Planted a Garden

By: Phyllis Root; Gary D. Schmidt
Illustrated by:
 Melissa Sweet
ISBN: 9781536204292
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Bernice Sandler and the Fight for Title Ix

Bernice Sandler and the Fight for Title Ix

By: Jen Barton
Illustrated by:
 Sarah Green
ISBN: 9781433839467
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Quake Chasers

Quake Chasers

By: Lori Polydoros
Illustrated by:
 Sadie Teper
ISBN: 9781641606479
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Jerry Lawson and the Channel F

Jerry Lawson and the Channel F

By: Matt Slayter
Illustrated by:
 Marcus Kwame Anderson
Nonfiction, Teen, Background / Culture
Hilde on the Record

Hilde on the Record

By: Hilde Kate Lysiak
ISBN: 9781641605816
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Eighteen Vats of Water

Eighteen Vats of Water

By: Ji-li Jiang
Illustrated by:
 Nadia Hsieh
ISBN: 9781954354067
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Cesar Chavez, The Farm Workers’ Champion

Cesar Chavez, The Farm Workers’ Champion

By: Jorge Arroyo
Illustrated by:
 Jorge Arroyo
Nonfiction, Teen, Background / Culture
Big Problems, Little Problems

Big Problems, Little Problems

By: Ben Feller
Illustrated by:
 Mercè López
ISBN: 9780884488903
Fiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
All You Need

All You Need

By: Howard Schwartz
Illustrated by:
 Jasu Hu
ISBN: 9780823443291
Fiction, 4-6, Diversity
The Bug Girl

The Bug Girl

By: Sophia Spencer and Margaret McNamara
Illustrated by:
 Kerascoët
ISBN: 9780525645931
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Timeline: Science & Technology

Timeline

By: Peter Goes
ISBN: 9781776573004
Nonfiction, 7-12, Science
What’s in Your Pocket?

What’s in Your Pocket?

By: Heather L. Montgomery
Illustrated by:
 Maribel Lechuga
ISBN: 9781623541224
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
The Wild World Handbook: Habitats

The Wild World Handbook

By: Andrea Debbink
Illustrated by:
 Asia Orlando
ISBN: 9781683692461
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
The Wild World Handbook: Creatures

The Wild World Handbook

By: Andrea Debbink
Illustrated by:
 Asia Orlando
ISBN: 9781683692683
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest

The Leaf Detective

By: Heather Lang
Illustrated by:
 Jana Christy
ISBN: 9781684371778
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Saving the Countryside: The Story of Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit

Saving the Countryside

By: Linda Elovitz Marshall
Illustrated by:
 Ilaria Urbinati
ISBN: 9781499809602
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Kid Scientists

Kid Scientists

By: David Stabler
Illustrated by:
 Anoosha Syed
ISBN: 9781683690740
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Your Life Matters

Your Life Matters

By: Chris Singleton
Illustrated by:
 Taylor Barron
ISBN: 9781952239311
Fiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
You Can’t Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell

You Can’t Say That!

By: Leonard S. Marcus
ISBN: 9780763690366
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Yayoi Kusama: Ready-to-Read Level 3 (You Should Meet Series)

Yayoi Kusama

By: May Nakamura
Illustrated by:
 Alexandra Badiu
ISBN: 9781534495654
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Why Longfellow Lied

Why Longfellow Lied

By: Jeff Lantos
ISBN: 9781580899338
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Who Is Jane Goodall?: (A Who Was? Board Book)

Who Is Jane Goodall?

By: Lisbeth Kaiser and Who HQ
Illustrated by:
 Stanley Chow
ISBN: 9780593223420
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

By: Kirsten Anderson and Who HQ
Illustrated by:
 Manuel Gutierrez
ISBN: 9780593226407
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII

When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII

By: Susan H. Kamei
ISBN: 9781481401449
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
What’s in Your Pocket?

What’s in Your Pocket?

By: Heather L. Montgomery
Illustrated by:
 Maribel Lechuga
ISBN: 9781623541224
Nonfiction, 4-6, Science
What Is Black Lives Matter?

What Is Black Lives Matter?

By: Lakita Wilson and Who HQ
Illustrated by:
 Gregory Copeland
ISBN: 9780593385883
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Welcome to the New World

Welcome to the New World

By: Jake Halpern
Illustrated by:
 Michael Sloan
ISBN: 9781250305596
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
We the People and the President: An Infographic Look at the American Presidency

We the People and the President

By: PJ Creek and Jamie Creek
ISBN: 9781626724693
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
We Can: Portraits of Power

We Can

By: Tyler Gordon
Illustrated by:
 Tyler Gordon
ISBN: 9780374389666
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
The Water Lady: How Darlene Arviso Helps a Thirsty Navajo Nation

The Water Lady

By: Alice B. McGinty
Illustrated by:
 Shonto Begay
ISBN: 9780525645009
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott

Unbound

By: Joyce Sctoo and Brie Spangler
Illustrated by:
 Melissa Sweet
ISBN: 9780525648116
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

Unbound

By: Tarana Burke
ISBN: 9781250621733
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Try It!: How Frieda Caplan Changed the Way We Eat

Try It!

By: Mara Rockliff
Illustrated by:
 Giselle Potter
ISBN: 9781534460072
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
A True Wonder: The Comic Book Hero Who Changed Everything

A True Wonder

By: Kirsten W. Larson
Illustrated by:
 Katy Wu
ISBN: 9780358238423
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War

A Time of Fear

By: Albert Marrin
ISBN: 9780525644293
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth

This Very Tree

By: Sean Rubin
ISBN: 9781250788504
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe

The Stuff Between the Stars

By: Sandra Nickel
Illustrated by:
 Aimée Sicuro
ISBN: 9781419736261
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt

Stitch by Stitch

By: Rob Sanders
Illustrated by:
 Jamey Christoph
ISBN: 9781433837395
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Stitch by Stitch: Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly Sews Her Way to Freedom

Stitch by Stitch

By: Connie Schofield-Morrison
Illustrated by:
 Elizabeth Zunon
ISBN: 9780823439638
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Sprouting Wings: The True Story of James Herman Banning, the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States

Sprouting Wings

By: Louisa Jaggar and Shari Becker
Illustrated by:
 Floyd Cooper
ISBN: 9781984847621
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Song for Jimi

Song for Jimi

By: Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Illustrated by:
 Edel Rodriguez
ISBN: 9780823443338
Nonfiction, 7-12, Music / Art
Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir

Somewhere in the Unknown World

By: Kao Kalia Yang
ISBN: 9781250296856
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
She Persisted: Claudette Colvin

She Persisted

By: Lesa Cline-Ransome and Chelsea Clinton
Illustrated by:
 Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint
ISBN: 9780593115848
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
She Persisted: Ruby Bridges

She Persisted

By: Kekla Magoon and Chelsea Clinton
Illustrated by:
 Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint
ISBN: 9780593115879
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
She Persisted: Maria Tallchief

She Persisted

By: Christine Day and Chelsea Clinton
Illustrated by:
 Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint
ISBN: 9780593115817
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
She Persisted: Clara Lemlich

She Persisted

By: Deborah Heiligman
ISBN: 9780593115725
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch

Saving American Beach

By: Heidi Tyline King
Illustrated by:
 Ekua Holmes
ISBN: 9781101996294
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge

Runaway

By: Ray Anthony Shepard
Illustrated by:
 Keith Mallett
ISBN: 9780374307042
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Rock by Rock: The Fantastical Garden of Nek Chand

Rock by Rock

By: Jennifer Bradbury
Illustrated by:
 Sam Boughton
ISBN: 9781481481823
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Right Now!: Real Kids Speaking Up for Change

Right Now!

By: Miranda Paul
Illustrated by:
 Bea Jackson
ISBN: 9780358137320
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People

Revolution in Our Time

By: Kekla Magoon
ISBN: 9781536214185
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
A Queen to the Rescue: the Story of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah

A Queen to the Rescue

By: Nancy Churnin
Illustrated by:
 Yevgenia Nayberg
ISBN: 9781939547958
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
A Plan for the People: Nelson Mandela’s Hope for His Nation

A Plan for the People

By: Lindsey McDivitt
Illustrated by:
 Charly Palmer
ISBN: 9780802855022
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Papa’s Free Day Party

Papa’s Free Day Party

By: Marilyn Nelson
Illustrated by:
 Wayne Anthony Still
ISBN: 9780940975729
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Nina: A Story of Nina Simone

Nina

By: Traci N. Todd
Illustrated by:
 Christian Robinson
ISBN: 9781524737283
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Niki Nakayama: A Chef’s Tale in 13 Bites

Niki Nakayama

By: Debbi Michiko Florence and Jamie Michalak
Illustrated by:
 Yuko Jones
ISBN: 9780374313876
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
My Name Is Bana

My Name Is Bana

By: Bana Alabed
Illustrated by:
 Nez Riaz
ISBN: 9781534412484
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers

Latinitas

By: Juliet Menéndez
Illustrated by:
 Juliet Menéndez
ISBN: 9781250234629
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Last Witnesses (Adapted for Young Adults)

Last Witnesses (Adapted for Young Adults)

By: Svetlana Alexievich
ISBN: 9780593308530
Nonfiction, Teen, History
King of Ragtime: The Story of Scott Joplin

King of Ragtime

By: Stephen Costanza
Illustrated by:
 Stephen Costanza
ISBN: 9781534410367
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
How to Become an Accidental Activist

How to Become an Accidental Activist

By: Frieda Wishinsky and Elizabeth MacLeod
Illustrated by:
 Jenn Playford
ISBN: 9781459826113
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Hold on to Your Music: The Inspiring True Story of the Children of Willesden Lane

Hold on to Your Music

By: Mona Golabek, Lee Cohen, and Emil Sher
Illustrated by:
 Sonia Possentini
ISBN: 9780316463133
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom

Harriet Tubman

By: Whit Taylor
Illustrated by:
  Kazimir Lee
ISBN: 9780759555518
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution Problem

The Great Stink

By: Colleen Paeff
Illustrated by:
 Nancy Carpenter
ISBN: 9781534449299
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Grace Banker and Her Hello Girls Answer the Call: The Heroic Story of WWI Telephone Operators

Grace Banker and Her Hello Girls Answer the Call

By: Claudia Friddell
Illustrated by:
 Elizabeth Baddeley
ISBN: 9781684373505
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Flip! How the Frisbee Took Flight

Flip! How the Frisbee Took Flight

By: Margaret Muirhead
Illustrated by:
 Adam Gustavson
ISBN: 9781580898805
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Finding Home: The Journey of Immigrants and Refugees

Finding Home

By: Jen Sookfong Lee
Illustrated by:
 Drew Shannon
ISBN: 9781459818996
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee

The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee

By: Julie Leung
Illustrated by:
 Julie Kwon
ISBN: 9780759554955
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome

A Face for Picasso

By: Ariel Henley
ISBN: 9780374314071
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
An Equal Shot: How the Law Title IX Changed America

An Equal Shot

By: Helaine Becker
Illustrated by:
 Dow Phumiruk
ISBN: 9781250241955
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration

Drawn Across Borders

By: George Butler
Illustrated by:
 George Butler
ISBN: 9781536217759
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today

Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults)

By: Edited by Alice Wong
ISBN: 9780593381670
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Defiant: Growing up in the Jim Crow South

Defiant

By: Wade Hudson
ISBN: 9780593126356
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Code Name Badass: The True Story of Virginia Hall

Code Name Badass

By: Heather Demetrios
ISBN: 9781534431874
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the Nahua

Child of the Flower-Song People

By: Gloria Amescua
Illustrated by:
 Duncan Tonatiuh
ISBN: 9781419740206
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Buses Are A Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider

Buses Are A Comin’

By: Charles Person and Richard Rooker
ISBN: 9781250274199
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War

The Book Collectors

By: Delphine Minoui; Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud
ISBN: 9780374115166
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Areli is a Dreamer: A True Story by Areli Morales, a DACA Recipient

Areli is a Dreamer

By: Areli Morales
Illustrated by:
 Luisa Uribe
ISBN: 9781984893994
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Wonder Women of Science: Twelve Geniuses Who Are Currently Rocking Science, Technology, and the World

Wonder Women of Science

By: Tiera Fletcher and Ginger Rue
Illustrated by:
 Sally Wern Comport
ISBN: 9781536207347
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Thank You, Dr. Salk!: The Scientist Who Beat Polio and Healed the World

Thank You, Dr. Salk!

By: Dean Robbins
Illustrated by:
 Mike Dutton
ISBN: 9780374313913
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe

The Stuff Between the Stars

By: Sandra Nickel
Illustrated by:
 Aimée Sicuro
ISBN: 9781419736261
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Secrets of the Sea: The Story of Jeanne Power, Revolutionary Marine Scientist

Secrets of the Sea

By: Evan Griffith
Illustrated by:
 Joanie Stone
ISBN: 9780358244325
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
A Life Electric: The Story of Nikola Tesla

A Life Electric

By: Azadeh Westergaard
Illustrated by:
 Júlia Sardà
ISBN: 9780593114605
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest

The Leaf Detective

By: Heather Lang
Illustrated by:
 Jana Christy
ISBN: 9781684371778
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Lady Bird Johnson, That’s Who!

Lady Bird Johnson, That’s Who!

By: Tracy Nelson Maurer
Illustrated by:
 Ginnie Hsu
ISBN: 9781250240361
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution Problem

The Great Stink

By: Colleen Paeff
Illustrated by:
 Nancy Carpenter
ISBN: 9781534449299
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
From Here to There: Inventions That Changed the Way the World Moves

From Here to There

By: Vivian Kirkfield
Illustrated by:
 Gilbert Ford
ISBN: 9781328560919
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Code Breaker, Spy Hunter: How Elizebeth Friedman Changed the Course of Two World Wars

Code Breaker, Spy Hunter

By: Laurie Wallmark
Illustrated by:
 Brooke Smart
ISBN: 9781419739637
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer

Classified

By: Traci Sorell
Illustrated by:
 Natasha Donovan
ISBN: 9781541579149
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Building Zaha: The Story of Architect Zaha Hadid

Building Zaha

By: Victoria Tentler-Krylov
Illustrated by:
 Victoria Tentler-Krylov
ISBN: 9781338282832
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Benoit Mandelbrot: Reshaping the World

Benoit Mandelbrot

By: Robert Black
ISBN: 9780898246865
Nonfiction, Teen, Biography / Memoir
Wonder Women of Science: Twelve Geniuses Who Are Currently Rocking Science, Technology, and the World

Wonder Women of Science

By: Tiera Fletcher and Ginger Rue
Illustrated by:
 Sally Wern Comport
ISBN: 9781536207347
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
She Persisted: Virginia Apgar

She Persisted

By: Sayantani Dasgupta and Chelsea Clinton
Illustrated by:
 Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint
ISBN: 9780593115787
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Scientists: Inspiring Tales of the World’s Brightest Scientific Minds

Scientists

By: Isabel Thomas
Illustrated by:
 Jessamy Hawke
ISBN: 9780744033823
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
A Life Electric: The Story of Nikola Tesla

A Life Electric

By: Azadeh Westergaard
Illustrated by:
 Júlia Sardà
ISBN: 9780593114605
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir
Fred & Marjorie: A Doctor, a Dog, and the Discovery of Insulin

Fred & Marjorie

By: Deborah Kerbel
Illustrated by:
 Angela Poon
ISBN: 9781771474115
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
Fearless World Traveler: Adventures of Marianne North, Botanical Artist

Fearless World Traveler

By: Laurie Lawlor
Illustrated by:
 Becca Stadtlander
ISBN: 9780823439591
Nonfiction, 7-12, Biography / Memoir
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