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The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown: An Essential Picture Book Biography of the Legendary Goodnight Moon Author for Children (Ages 4-8)
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4.20 avg rating — 1,710 ratings
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Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs
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4.26 avg rating — 1,196 ratings
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Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando
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4.32 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
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Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
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4.42 avg rating — 3,072 ratings
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This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality
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4.47 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
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Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet
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4.17 avg rating — 362 ratings
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The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons
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4.37 avg rating — 2,188 ratings
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A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park
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4.16 avg rating — 457 ratings
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Sparky & Spike: Charles Schulz and the Wildest, Smartest Dog Ever
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4.16 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
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3.77 avg rating — 15,504 ratings
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The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets
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4.01 avg rating — 2,552 ratings
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A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks
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4.16 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII
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4.23 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzer’s Historic Boston Marathon
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4.49 avg rating — 392 ratings
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The Discovery of Anime and Manga: The Asian Hall of Fame
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4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings
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It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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4.38 avg rating — 9,399 ratings
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Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"
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4.14 avg rating — 1,543 ratings
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Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor (People Who Shaped Our World, #4)
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4.24 avg rating — 612 ratings
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Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II
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4.15 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Just Like Beverly: A Biography of Beverly Cleary
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4.41 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
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3.60 avg rating — 562 ratings
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The Journey of York: The Unsung Hero of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books with 4D)
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4.22 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Bringing Down A President: the Watergate Scandal
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3.82 avg rating — 143 ratings
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You Are My Friend: The Story of Mister Rogers and His Neighborhood
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4.32 avg rating — 644 ratings
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers (Mister Rogers Poetry Books Book 1)
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4.21 avg rating — 5,159 ratings
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The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng
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4.50 avg rating — 705 ratings
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Guitar Genius: How Les Paul Engineered the Solid-Body Electric Guitar and Rocked the World
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4.38 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Rocket to the Moon! (Big Ideas That Changed the World, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 536 ratings
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The Tornado Scientist: Seeing Inside Severe Storms
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4.11 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Incredible True Story of the Man Behind the Machines
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4.17 avg rating — 601 ratings
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Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial (The History Makers Series)
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4.27 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Crossings: Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals
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4.53 avg rating — 527 ratings
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A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa
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4.08 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Ice Breaker: How Mabel Fairbanks Changed Figure Skating
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4.15 avg rating — 182 ratings
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The Astronaut With a Song for the Stars: The Story of Dr. Ellen Ochoa (Amazing Scientists, 4)
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4.15 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom (People Who Shaped Our World, 6)
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4.34 avg rating — 870 ratings
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It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way
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4.45 avg rating — 1,245 ratings
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Pencils, Pens & Brushes: A Great Girls' Guide to Disney Animation
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4.19 avg rating — 235 ratings
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A Ray of Light: A Book of Science and Wonder
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3.95 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Sweet Dreams, Sarah: From Slavery to Inventor
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4.43 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963
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3.96 avg rating — 1,029 ratings
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The Boy Who Invented the Popsicle: The Cool Science Behind Frank Epperson's Famous Frozen Treat
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4.16 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Ninita's Big World: The True Story of a Deaf Pygmy Marmoset – A Picture Book About Friendship and Disability for Children (Ages 4-7)
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3.96 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
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4.22 avg rating — 1,991 ratings
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The Bug Girl: Maria Merian's Scientific Vision
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4.12 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Electric War: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Light the World
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3.96 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island
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4.45 avg rating — 374 ratings
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The Perfect Horse: The Daring Rescue of Horses Kidnapped During World War II
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3.87 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Fly Girls Young Readers’ Edition: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History – The Untold True Stories of Tenacious Women Pilots and Their 1920s and 1930s Air Racing Triumphs
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist
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4.33 avg rating — 984 ratings
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Running with Wolves
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4.37 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany
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3.90 avg rating — 594 ratings
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The Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa’s Last Great Herds – A Breathtaking Photographic Story of Nature's Greatest Journey
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4.02 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Sound of Silence: Growing Up Hearing with Deaf Parents
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4.25 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Locked in Ice: Nansen's Daring Quest for the North Pole
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4.05 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Grandpa Stops a War: A Paul Robeson story
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4.01 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia
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3.87 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins
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4.25 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Me and the Sky: Captain Beverley Bass, Pioneering Pilot
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4.25 avg rating — 219 ratings
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When Sue Found Sue: Sue Hendrickson Discovers Her T. Rex
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4.12 avg rating — 565 ratings
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The Incredible yet True Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt: The Greatest Inventor-Naturalist-Scientist-Explorer Who Ever Lived
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4.19 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Finding the Speed of Light: The 1676 Discovery that Dazzled the World (The History Makers Series)
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3.82 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Like a Lizard
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3.83 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Borrowing Bunnies: A Surprising True Tale of Fostering Rabbits
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4.19 avg rating — 300 ratings
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The Bluest of Blues: Anna Atkins and the First Book of Photographs
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4.10 avg rating — 345 ratings
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When Eleanor Roosevelt Learned to Jump A Horse
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3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge
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4.03 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Saving the Tasmanian Devil: How Science Is Helping the World's Largest Marsupial Carnivore Survive
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3.95 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson and the Mammoth Hunt: The True Story of the Quest for America's Biggest Bones
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3.74 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Crossing on Time: Steam Engines, Fast Ships, and a Journey to the New World
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4.19 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918: A Graphic Novel
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3.68 avg rating — 1,389 ratings
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The Frog Book: An Illustrated Nonfiction Book About Amazing Amphibians for Kids (Ages 4-8)
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4.24 avg rating — 174 ratings
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Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War
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4.18 avg rating — 522 ratings
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Karl's New Beak: 3-D Printing Builds a Bird a Better Life (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books with 4D)
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4.15 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Daring Dozen: The Twelve Who Walked on the Moon
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4.17 avg rating — 179 ratings
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A Giant Man from a Tiny Town
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4.05 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Let 'er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People's Champion
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4.07 avg rating — 364 ratings
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I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon
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4.29 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Out of This World: The Surreal Art of Leonora Carrington – A Picture Book Biography About a Girl Who Followed Her Imagination for Children (Ages 4-8)
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3.96 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Hector: A Boy, A Protest, and the Photograph that Changed Apartheid
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4.29 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Carter Reads the Newspaper
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4.34 avg rating — 585 ratings
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The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon: The True Story of Alan Bean
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4.22 avg rating — 344 ratings
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A Girl Called Genghis Khan: How Maria Toorpakai Wazir Pretended to Be a Boy, Defied the Taliban, and Became a World Famous Squash Player
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4.08 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Dancing Through Fields of Color: The Story of Helen Frankenthaler
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4.07 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Helen Oxenbury: A Life in Illustration
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4.44 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Robert E. Lee: The Man, the Soldier, the Myth
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3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Popcorn Country: The Story of America's Favorite Snack
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3.82 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Bad Boys of Fashion: Style Rebels and Renegades Through the Ages
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3.65 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World
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4.34 avg rating — 988 ratings
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A Is for Audra: Broadway's Leading Ladies from A to Z
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4.39 avg rating — 427 ratings
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The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets
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4.04 avg rating — 1,368 ratings
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