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Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

by Steve Sheinkin
Hardcover, 2012
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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

by Malala Yousafzai
Hardcover, 2014
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NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, Contemporary Concerns, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)
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Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hardcover, 2018
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NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, NCSS Standards Theme--Science-Technology-Society, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, Biography, Reading Level-Primary (K-2)Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5), Reading Level-Primary (K-2), Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5)
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The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

by Dashka Slater
Hardcover, 2017
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NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, NCSS Standards Theme--Civic Ideals and Practices, Contemporary Issues, Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House Reader's Circle)

by Tracy Kidder
Paperback, 2009
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NCSS Standards Theme--Global Connections, NCSS Standards Theme--Science-Technology-Society, Biography, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))

by Phillip M Hoose
Hardcover, 2009
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NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, NCSS Standards Theme--Civic Ideals and Practices, Biography, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))

by Tanya Lee Stone
Hardcover, 2009
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Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice

by Bryan Stevenson
Hardcover, 2018
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NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, Contemporary Concerns, Reading Level-High (9-12)
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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

by Steve Sheinkin
Hardcover, 2014
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NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, History-Life & Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia (Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children (Awards))

by Candace Fleming
Hardcover, 2014
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NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, Geograpy-Peoples-Places, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

by M.T. Anderson
Hardcover, 2015
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NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, Geography-People-Places, Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))

by Steve Sheinkin
Hardcover, 2015
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They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group

by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Hardcover, 2010
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Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam

by Elizabeth Partridge
Hardcover, 2018
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NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Civic Ideals and Practices, History-Life & Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Grand Canyon

by Jason Chin
Hardcover, 2017
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Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

by Steve Sheinkin
Hardcover, 2017
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NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, History-Life and Cultures in the Americas, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Hardcover, 2015
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NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, NCSS Standards Theme--Civic Ideals and Practices, History-life and Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Chasing King's Killer

by James L. Swanson
Hardcover, 2018
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NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, NCSS Standards Theme--Civic Ideals and Practices, History-Life & Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (A Big Words Book, 1)

by Doreen Rappaport
Hardcover, 2001
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NCSS Standards Theme--Civic Ideals and Practices, NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, Biography, Not avaliable
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Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town

by Warren St. John
Hardcover, 2012
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NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--Civic Ideals and Practices, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, Geography-People-Places, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers (Junior Library Guild Selection)

by Tanya Lee Stone
Hardcover, 2013
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NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, History-Life and Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today

by Cynthia; Levinson Levinson, Sanford
Hardcover, 2017
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NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, NCSS Standards Theme--Civic Ideals and Practices, Contemporary Issues, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Newbery Honor Book)

by Jim Murphy
Hardcover, 2003
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NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--Science-Technology-Society, History, Life, History-Life-and Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5)Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), History Life, & Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5) — 2 more, Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

by Albert Marrin
Hardcover, 2018
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NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, World History & Culture, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
Hardcover, 2017
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NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Global Connections, Contemporary Issues, Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Hardcover, 2005
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NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, World History and Culture, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))

by Phillip Hoose
Hardcover, 2015
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Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World

by Sarah Prager
Hardcover, 2017
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Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards))

by Russell Freedman
Hardcover, 2006
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Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem

by Rosalyn Schanzer
Hardcover, 2011
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NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, History-life and Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5)Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5), Reading Level-Middle (6-8)
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Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13

by Helaine Becker
Hardcover, 2018
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NCSS Standards Theme--Science-Technology-Society, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, Biography, Reading Level-Primary (K-2)Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5), Reading Level-Primary (K-2), Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5)
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Hardcover, 2015
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We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))

by Russell Freedman
Hardcover, 2016
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NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, World History & Culture, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope

by Diane Guerrero
Hardcover, 2018
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NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, Contemporary Concerns, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)
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Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans (Coretta Scott King Award - Author Winner Title(s))

by Kadir Nelson
Hardcover, 2011
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NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, History-life and Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)
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"The President Has Been Shot!": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

by James L. Swanson
Hardcover, 2013
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NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, History-Life and Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi

by Neal Bascomb
Hardcover, 2019
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NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, NCSS Standards Theme--Civic Ideals and Practices, World History and Culture, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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AN Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming

by Al Gore
Hardcover, 2007
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NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, Contemporary Concerns, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote

by Susan Zimet
Hardcover, 2018
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NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, NCSS Standards Theme--Civic Ideals and Practices, History-Life & Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story

by Caren Stelson
Hardcover, 2016
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NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, World History & Culture, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City

by Phillip Hoose
Hardcover, 2018
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NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, History-Life & Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science

by Marc Aronson
Hardcover, 2010
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NCSS Standards Theme--Production-Distribution-Consumption, NCSS Standards Theme--Science-Technology-Society, NCSS Standards Theme--Global Connections, World History & Culture, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives

by Kenneth C. Davis
Hardcover, 2016
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NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, History-Life & Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Middle (6-8)Reading Level-High (9-12), Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-High (9-12)
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The Origins of Totalitarianism (Harvest Book Book 244)

by Hannah Arendt
Ebook, 1973
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NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, Biography, Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5), Reading Level-Middle (6-8)
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The Origins of Totalitarianism (Harvest Book Book 244)

by Hannah Arendt
Ebook, 1973
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NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, Biography, Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5)Reading Level-Middle (6-8)
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History vs Women: The Defiant Lives that They Don't Want You to Know

by Anita Sarkeesian
Hardcover, 2018
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NCSS Standards Theme--Individuals-Groups-Institutions, NCSS Standards Theme--Production-Distribution-Consumption, NCSS Standards Theme--Global Connections, Biography, Reading Level-High (9-12)
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Through My Eyes

by Ruby Bridges
Hardcover, 1999
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NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, NCSS Standards Theme--Civic Ideals and Practices, History, Life, History-Life-and Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5)Reading Level-Middle (6-8), History Life, & Culture in the Americas, Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5), Reading Level-Middle (6-8)
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First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great

by Sandra Neil Wallace
Hardcover, 2018
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NCSS Standards Theme--Time-Continuity-Change, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, Biography, Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5)Reading Level-Middle (6-8), Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5), Reading Level-Middle (6-8)
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Maya Lin: Thinking with Her Hands (Middle Grade Nonfiction Books, History Books for Kids, Women Empowerment Stories for Kids)

by Susan Goldman Rubin
Hardcover, 2017
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NCSS Standards Theme--Culture, NCSS Standards Theme--People-Places-Environments, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, Women's History, Reading Level-Intermediate (3-5)
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Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage

by In This Together Media Editor
Hardcover, 2018
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NCSS Standards Theme--Power-Authority-Governance, NCSS Standards Theme--Civic Ideals and Practices, NCSS Standards Theme--Individual Development and Identity, Contemporary Concerns, Reading Level-High (9-12)
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