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The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs
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4.62 avg rating — 660 ratings
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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
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4.49 avg rating — 4,232 ratings
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Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration
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4.49 avg rating — 1,702 ratings
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Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America
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4.01 avg rating — 680 ratings
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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Caldecott Honor Book)
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4.65 avg rating — 1,087 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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March: Book Three (March, #3)
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4.64 avg rating — 21,590 ratings
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Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability
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4.45 avg rating — 1,097 ratings
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Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
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4.24 avg rating — 2,499 ratings
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All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team:
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4.49 avg rating — 6,579 ratings
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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
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4.04 avg rating — 9,165 ratings
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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
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4.31 avg rating — 2,808 ratings
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Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
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4.14 avg rating — 20,911 ratings
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Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
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4.38 avg rating — 1,055 ratings
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Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
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4.41 avg rating — 6,374 ratings
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Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
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4.32 avg rating — 742 ratings
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Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard
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4.18 avg rating — 691 ratings
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Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II
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3.89 avg rating — 594 ratings
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Grand Canyon
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4.34 avg rating — 2,683 ratings
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
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4.18 avg rating — 3,911 ratings
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
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4.09 avg rating — 4,649 ratings
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We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler – Sibert Honor History of Hans and Sophie Scholl for Kids (Ages 10-12)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,968 ratings
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The Book of Turtles: A Fact-Filled Picture Book About Beloved Reptile Species for Children (Ages 4-8)
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4.50 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Jumper: A Day in the Life of a Backyard Jumping Spider
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4.36 avg rating — 889 ratings
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Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera
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4.54 avg rating — 1,952 ratings
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Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books)
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3.87 avg rating — 4,546 ratings
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How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure
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4.40 avg rating — 448 ratings
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
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4.11 avg rating — 6,321 ratings
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Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
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3.98 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor
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3.88 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate
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4.17 avg rating — 530 ratings
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When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana
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4.03 avg rating — 444 ratings
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The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
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4.06 avg rating — 6,395 ratings
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Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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4.44 avg rating — 361 ratings
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A Seed Grows
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4.13 avg rating — 707 ratings
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We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
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4.27 avg rating — 4,078 ratings
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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
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4.39 avg rating — 6,955 ratings
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The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art
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4.16 avg rating — 669 ratings
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The Tarantula Scientist
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4.12 avg rating — 323 ratings
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The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem
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4.34 avg rating — 902 ratings
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All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World
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4.07 avg rating — 547 ratings
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The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science
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4.32 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
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Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
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3.91 avg rating — 2,087 ratings
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The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
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4.08 avg rating — 6,698 ratings
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
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4.16 avg rating — 13,540 ratings
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When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
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4.34 avg rating — 4,226 ratings
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Spiders
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4.20 avg rating — 667 ratings
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Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes
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4.18 avg rating — 390 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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4.15 avg rating — 92,790 ratings
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Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
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4.10 avg rating — 2,437 ratings
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Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
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3.99 avg rating — 1,920 ratings
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Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
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4.27 avg rating — 2,580 ratings
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The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors
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3.95 avg rating — 1,712 ratings
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A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
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3.89 avg rating — 5,328 ratings
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Brooklyn Bridge
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3.93 avg rating — 112 ratings
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My Season With Penguins: An Antarctic Journal
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3.63 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Drawing from Memory
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3.99 avg rating — 55,921 ratings
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Black and White: The Confrontation of Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor
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3.89 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Giant Squid
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4.29 avg rating — 1,566 ratings
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Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
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4.05 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
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4.09 avg rating — 13,380 ratings
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What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!
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4.08 avg rating — 2,485 ratings
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Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix (Food Heroes, 3)
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3.83 avg rating — 813 ratings
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Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
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4.02 avg rating — 636 ratings
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
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4.09 avg rating — 6,181 ratings
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Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills
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4.37 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos
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4.21 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall
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4.59 avg rating — 682 ratings
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The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees: A Graphic Novel
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4.06 avg rating — 3,794 ratings
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The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II
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4.07 avg rating — 3,091 ratings
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The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
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3.97 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
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The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival
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4.45 avg rating — 1,393 ratings
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Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild – An Award-Winning Science Book About Giant Pandas and Conservation in China for Kids (Ages 10-12)
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3.88 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
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4.34 avg rating — 2,307 ratings
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Walt Whitman: Words for America
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4.04 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Parrots Over Puerto Rico
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4.08 avg rating — 1,859 ratings
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The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
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4.05 avg rating — 424 ratings
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We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
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4.29 avg rating — 1,311 ratings
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Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
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4.17 avg rating — 5,489 ratings
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The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
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3.82 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America
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3.81 avg rating — 1,457 ratings
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I Face the Wind
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
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4.39 avg rating — 4,028 ratings
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The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius
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3.92 avg rating — 479 ratings
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Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
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3.96 avg rating — 634 ratings
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Hey, Water!
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4.10 avg rating — 1,416 ratings
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Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot – The Sibert Medal-Winning Story of Endangered Birds in New Zealand for Kids (Ages 10-12)
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4.10 avg rating — 1,354 ratings
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
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4.07 avg rating — 6,249 ratings
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Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
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4.11 avg rating — 335 ratings
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
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3.83 avg rating — 4,714 ratings
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We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
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4.32 avg rating — 2,707 ratings
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Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
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4.14 avg rating — 1,836 ratings
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Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
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4.04 avg rating — 1,587 ratings
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Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring
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3.91 avg rating — 996 ratings
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Locomotive
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4.13 avg rating — 6,178 ratings
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Lightship
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4.02 avg rating — 558 ratings
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To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
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3.84 avg rating — 3,938 ratings
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Titanic: Voices From the Disaster
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4.05 avg rating — 4,920 ratings
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Action Jackson
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3.90 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Lafayette and the American Revolution
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3.92 avg rating — 353 ratings
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The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for most distinguished informational book for children: “Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall,” written by Lynn Brunelle and illustrated by Jason Chin, is the Sibert Award winner. The book is published by Neal Porter Books, Holiday House.
Sibert Honor Books
"Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos," written by Nathalie Alonso, illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez and published by Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers;
"The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II," written by Candace Fleming and published by Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.;
"The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival," written by Estelle Nadel and Sammy Savos with Bethany Strout, illustrated by Sammy Savos and published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing;
"Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills," written by Billy Mills and Donna Janell Bowman, illustrated by S. D. Nelson and published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group.