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These books for children (most of them picture books) are wonderful for any age - I recommend using them to introduce new topics to older students (I've used them with juniors in high school).
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Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
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Thank You, Mr. Falker
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Stone Soup
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Bud, Not Buddy
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Exclamation Mark
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Macy the Mermaid: A Chesapeake Bay Adventure
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Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova
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Laurel Snyder (Goodreads Author)
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John, Paul, George & Ben
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Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
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Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
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Michelle Markel (Goodreads Author)
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The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps
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Declan Grows Up: It's Just Not Fair
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C. Austin Lee (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story
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Christmas Day in the Morning
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Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change
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4.44 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
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Jabari Asim (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 775 ratings
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Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People
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Monica Brown (Goodreads Author)
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Welcome to Felicity's World · 1774: Growing Up in Colonial America
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The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941
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Kirby Larson (Goodreads Author)
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Helen Keller's Teacher
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The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story
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Nelson Mandela
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Freedom Summer
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Deborah Wiles (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 2,938 ratings
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The Story of Ruby Bridges
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Song and Dance Man
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Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
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Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters
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Barack Obama (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 7,525 ratings
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Dear America: With the Might of Angels - Audio
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Countdown (The Sixties Trilogy, #1)
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Deborah Wiles (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 10,908 ratings
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Welcome to Kit's World · 1934: Growing Up During America's Great Depression
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Harriet Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 242 ratings
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How Rocket Learned to Read
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Annie
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A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
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Even More Parts
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More Parts
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Parts
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The Tree That Would Not Die
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Circle of Fire (American Girl History Mysteries, #14)
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3.93 avg rating — 346 ratings
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
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4.13 avg rating — 511 ratings
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The Orphan of Ellis Island
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Anne Frank Beyond the Diary: A Photographic Remembrance
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4.29 avg rating — 26,123 ratings
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Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei (Caldecott Honor Book)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,476 ratings
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All the Children Were Sent Away
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Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
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G. Neri (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 478 ratings
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From Anna
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The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
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The Book with No Pictures
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B.J. Novak (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 30,730 ratings
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Welcome to Addy's World · 1864: Growing Up During America's Civil War
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4.19 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos
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Kristy's Great Idea (The Baby-Sitters Club, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35,068 ratings
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I am Rosa Parks
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Brad Meltzer (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 1,731 ratings
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I am Amelia Earhart
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Brad Meltzer (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 1,645 ratings
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I am Abraham Lincoln
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Brad Meltzer (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 1,456 ratings
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All-of-a-Kind Family (All-of-a-Kind-Family, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 26,908 ratings
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A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
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Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
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4.07 avg rating — 586 ratings
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Laura's Album: A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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William Anderson (Compiler)
4.31 avg rating — 918 ratings
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Beautiful Oops [Board book]
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Barney Saltzberg (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 4,451 ratings
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Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story
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Nora Raleigh Baskin (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 8,389 ratings
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The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse
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4.06 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
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The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
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Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America
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The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever
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Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry
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The Stolen Smile
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J. Patrick Lewis (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Spark - A Bedtime Rhyming Picture Book
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Mark Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 24 ratings
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What Do I Count
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D.B. McNicol (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Catbug: If I Had Some Hoverpants
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Christmas from Heaven: The True Story of the Berlin Candy Bomber
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A Kids Book About Executive Functioning
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Iris Wong (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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ABC Animals an alphabetical rhyming picture book
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Mark Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Best of Catbug: My Name is Catbug, What's Yours? (Book 1)
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Dorothea Duck and Her Little Companion
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Jennifer K. Lafferty (Goodreads Author)
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Where Am I Sleeping Tonight?: A Story of Divorce
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Carol Gordon Ekster (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Do Monsters Wear Undies?
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Mark Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"
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Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
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Candace Fleming (Goodreads Author)
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Through My Eyes
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The Boy Who Loved Words
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Fly Away Home
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Nothing Rhymes With April
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Janey G. Blue: Pearl Harbor, 1941
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White Star
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A Boy of Heart Mountain
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The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
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Good Night, Mr. Tom
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Rosa
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Polar: The Titanic Bear
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Look, a Book!
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Grandpa's Mountain
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Chu's Day (Chu, #1)
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
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Yankee Girl
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Mary Ann Rodman (Goodreads Author)
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Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad
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Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky
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The Secret Lives of Princesses
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Journey to Topaz
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
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Eleven
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Tom Rogers (Goodreads Author)
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Glory Be
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Augusta Scattergood (Goodreads Author)
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