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Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2017

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2017

Resources for the titles recognized by this award since 2000 -- promoting outstanding nonfiction for children

Resources for this booklist include:

  • 128 Videos
  • 100 Book Readings
  • 285 Lesson Plans
  • Total of 1964 resources

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Right Word, The: Roget and His Thesaurus
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus
  • by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
  • Multimedia Resources: 27
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    Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
    Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
  • by Duncan Tonatiuh
  • Multimedia Resources: 26
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    Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
    Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
  • by Laban Carrick Hill and Bryan Collier
  • Multimedia Resources: 24
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    Family Romanov, The: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
    The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
  • by Candace Fleming
  • Multimedia Resources: 24
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    Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
    Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
  • by Kadir Nelson
  • Multimedia Resources: 23
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    Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • by Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier
  • Multimedia Resources: 22
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    We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
    We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
  • by Kadir Nelson
  • Multimedia Resources: 22
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    Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
    Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
  • by Phillip Hoose
  • Multimedia Resources: 22
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    Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
    Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras
  • by Duncan Tonatiuh
  • Multimedia Resources: 21
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    Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
    Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
  • by Tanya Lee Stone
  • Multimedia Resources: 20
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    Locomotive
    Locomotive
  • by Brian Floca
  • Multimedia Resources: 20
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    Wall, The: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
    The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
  • by Peter Sís
  • Multimedia Resources: 19
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    When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
    When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
  • by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Brian Selznick
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Winner, 2003)
    Sibert Medal (Honor, 2003)
  • Multimedia Resources: 19
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    Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
    Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
  • by Melissa Sweet
  • Multimedia Resources: 19
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    Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
    Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
  • by Michelle Markel and Melissa Sweet
  • Multimedia Resources: 19
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    Giant Squid
    Giant Squid
  • by Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann
  • Multimedia Resources: 19
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    Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
    Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
  • by Susan Hood and Sally Wern Comport
  • Multimedia Resources: 18
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    Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
    Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
  • by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
  • Multimedia Resources: 17
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    Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring
    Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring
  • by Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan, and Brian Floca
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Winner, 2011)
    Sibert Medal (Honor, 2011)
  • Multimedia Resources: 17
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    Boy Who Loved Math, The: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos
    The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos
  • by Deborah Heiligman and LeUyen Pham
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2014)
    Cook Prize (Winner, 2014)
    Mathical Award (Honor, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 17
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    I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
    I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
  • by Debbie Levy and Elizabeth Baddeley
  • Multimedia Resources: 17
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    Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, The
    The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
  • by Barbara Kerley and Brian Selznick
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2002)
    Caldecott Medal (Honor, 2002)
  • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    Me . . . Jane
    Me . . . Jane
  • by Patrick McDonnell
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2012)
    Caldecott Medal (Honor, 2012)
    Zolotow Award (Winner, 2012)
  • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    Splash of Red, A: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
    A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
  • by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
  • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    Trombone Shorty
    Trombone Shorty
  • by Troy Andrews and Bryan Collier
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
    Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
  • by Steve Sheinkin
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova
    Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova
  • by Laurel Snyder and Julie Morstad
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Growing Up Pedro: How the Martinez Brothers Made it from the Dominican Republic All the Way to…
    Growing Up Pedro: How the Martinez Brothers Made it from the Dominican Republic All the Way to…
  • by Matt Tavares
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2016)
    Américas Award (Honor, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
    Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
  • by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Egg Is Quiet, An
    An Egg Is Quiet
  • by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2007)
    SB&F Prize (Winner, 2007)
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    River of Words, A: The Story of William Carlos Williams
    A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams
  • by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2009)
    Caldecott Medal (Honor, 2009)
    Zolotow Award (Honor, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
    We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
  • by Cynthia Y. Levinson
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
    Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
  • by Katherine Roy
  • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France
    Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France
  • by Mara Rockliff and Iacopo Bruno
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2016)
    Cook Prize (Winner, 2016)
    SB&F Prize (Commended, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Parrots Over Puerto Rico
    Parrots Over Puerto Rico
  • by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore
  • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White
    Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White
  • by Melissa Sweet
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Winner, 2017)
    BGHB Awards (Honor, 2017)
  • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Race to Save the Lord God Bird, The
    The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
  • by Phillip Hoose
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Living Color
    Living Color
  • by Steve Jenkins
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2008)
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Lincolns, The: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
    The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
  • by Candace Fleming
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2009)
    BGHB Awards (Winner, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Sisters & Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World
    Sisters & Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World
  • by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2009)
    SB&F Prize (Winner, 2008)
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
    At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
  • by Walter Dean Myers
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2000)
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books
    Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books
  • by Karen Leggett Abouraya and Susan L. Roth
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
    Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
  • by Tanya Lee Stone
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2014)
    YALSA Nonfiction Award (Finalist, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Actual Size
    Actual Size
  • by Steve Jenkins
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2005)
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    American Plague, An: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
    An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
  • by Jim Murphy
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Nic Bishop Spiders
    Nic Bishop Spiders
  • by Nic Bishop
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth
    Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth
  • by Anne Rockwell and R. Gregory Christie
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2001)
    CSK Book Awards (Honor, 2001)
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Frog Scientist, The
    The Frog Scientist
  • by Pamela S. Turner and Andy Comins
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Secret World of Walter Anderson, The
    The Secret World of Walter Anderson
  • by Hester Bass and E.B. Lewis
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Winner, 2010)
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution
    Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution
  • by Steve Jenkins
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2003)
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard
    Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard
  • by Loree Griffin Burns and Ellen Harasimowicz
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World
    Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World
  • by Steve Jenkins
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2015)
    Outstanding Science Trade Book (Commended, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat
    Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat
  • by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2015)
    Outstanding Science Trade Book (Commended, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
    Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
  • by Katheryn Russell-Brown and Frank Morrison
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2015)
    CSK Book Awards (Winner, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Infographics
    Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Infographics
  • by Steve Jenkins
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2017)
    Outstanding Science Trade Book (Commended, 2017)
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
    Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
  • by Caren Stelson
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2017)
    Jane Addams Award (Winner, 2017)
    Sibert Medal (Honor, 2017)
  • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Raindrops Roll
    Raindrops Roll
  • by April Pulley Sayre
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2016)
    Outstanding Science Trade Book (Commended, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
    Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
  • by Catherine Thimmesh
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Through My Eyes
    Through My Eyes
  • by Ruby Bridges and Margo Lundell
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Top of the World, The: Climbing Mount Everest
    The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest
  • by Steve Jenkins
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2000)
    BGHB Awards (Winner, 1999)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion
    Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion
  • by Loree Griffin Burns
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2008)
    BGHB Awards (Honor, 2007)
    SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2008)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
    Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
  • by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2006)
    Newbery Medal (Honor, 2006)
    Sibert Medal (Honor, 2006)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
    Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
  • by Sally M. Walker
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Henry Aaron's Dream
    Henry Aaron's Dream
  • by Matt Tavares
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2011)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
    Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
  • by Candace Fleming
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2012)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Mangrove Tree, The: Planting Trees to Feed Families
    The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families
  • by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Animals in Flight
    Animals in Flight
  • by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2002)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs, The: A Scientific Mystery
    The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs: A Scientific Mystery
  • by Sandra Markle
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Billions of Years, Amazing Changes: The Story of Evolution
    Billions of Years, Amazing Changes: The Story of Evolution
  • by Laurence Pringle and Steve Jenkins
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2012)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Mad Potter, The: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius
    The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius
  • by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2014)
    Sibert Medal (Honor, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    House That Jane Built, The: A Story about Jane Addams
    The House That Jane Built: A Story about Jane Addams
  • by Tanya Lee Stone and Kathryn Brown
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    Snake Scientist, The
    The Snake Scientist
  • by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2000)
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    George Washington Carver
    George Washington Carver
  • by Tonya Bolden
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2009)
    SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge
    If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge
  • by Marc Aronson
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2011)
    Outstanding Science Trade Book (Commended, 2011)
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People
    Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People
  • by Monica Brown and Julie Paschkis
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2012)
    Américas Award (Winner, 2012)
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos
    Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos
  • by Stephanie Roth Sisson
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl
    Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl
  • by Tonya Bolden
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2006)
    CSK Book Awards (Honor, 2006)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
    John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
  • by Kathryn Lasky and Stan Fellows
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2007)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Venom
    Venom
  • by Marilyn Singer
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2008)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy), The
    The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy)
  • by Barbara Kerley and Edwin Fotheringham
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2011)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
    They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
  • by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2011)
    YALSA Nonfiction Award (Finalist, 2011)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!
    You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!
  • by Shana Corey and Chesley McLaren
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2001)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Mighty Mars Rovers, The: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity, The
    The Mighty Mars Rovers, The: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity
  • by Elizabeth Rusch
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2013)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle
    America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle
  • by David A. Adler and Terry Widener
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2001)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
    Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
  • by Robert Byrd
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2013)
    BGHB Awards (Winner, 2013)
    Sibert Medal (Honor, 2013)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell
    Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell
  • by Tanya Lee Stone and Marjorie Priceman
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty
    Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty
  • by Tonya Bolden
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2014)
    Carter G. Woodson Award (Winner, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Lifetime: The Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives
    Lifetime: The Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives
  • by Lola M. Schaefer and Christopher Silas Neal
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives
    Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives
  • by Elizabeth Rusch and Tom Uhlman
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2014)
    SB&F Prize (Finalist, 2014)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights
    Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights
  • by Larry Dane Brimner
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2015)
    Américas Award (Honor, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
    Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
  • by Kathryn Gibbs Davis and Gilbert Ford
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2015)
    Cook Prize (Honor, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    First Step, The: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
    The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
  • by Susan E. Goodman and E.B. Lewis
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2017)
    Jane Addams Award (Honor, 2017)
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer
    Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer
  • by Diane Stanley and Jessie Hartland
  • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle's Journey to Alvin Ailey
    My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle's Journey to Alvin Ailey
  • by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2016)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
    Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
  • by Ann Bausum
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2007)
    Sibert Medal (Honor, 2007)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium
    Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium
  • by Carla Killough McClafferty
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2007)
    Outstanding Science Trade Book (Commended, 2007)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist
    Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist
  • by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2002)
    Sibert Medal (Honor, 2002)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Eleanor, Quiet No More
    Eleanor, Quiet No More
  • by Doreen Rappaport and Gary Kelley
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2010)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    When the Wolves Returned: Restoring Nature's Balance in Yellowstone
    When the Wolves Returned: Restoring Nature's Balance in Yellowstone
  • by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Dan Hartman, and Cassie Hartman
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2009)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Man Who Made Time Travel, The
    The Man Who Made Time Travel
  • by Kathryn Lasky and Kevin Hawkes
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2004)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Chameleon, Chameleon
    Chameleon, Chameleon
  • by Joy Cowley and Nic Bishop
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2006)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Monsieur Marceau: Actor without Words
    Monsieur Marceau: Actor without Words
  • by Leda Schubert and Gerard DuBois
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Winner, 2013)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Home for Mr. Emerson, A
    A Home for Mr. Emerson
  • by Barbara Kerley and Edwin Fotheringham
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2015)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Building the Book Cathedral: The Story of its Construction
    Building the Book Cathedral: The Story of its Construction
  • by David Macaulay
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Commended, 2000)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Olinguito, de La A a La Z! / Olinguito, from A to Z!
    Olinguito, de La A a La Z! / Olinguito, from A to Z!
  • by Lulu Delacre
    • Orbis Pictus Award (Honor, 2017)
  • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber
    Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber
  • by Sue Macy and C.F. Payne
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    Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark
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    Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
    Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
  • by Don Brown
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    Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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    Voice That Challenged a Nation, The: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
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    Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Through the Gates and Beyond
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Through the Gates and Beyond
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    M.L.K.: The Journey of a King
    M.L.K.: The Journey of a King
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    One Giant Leap
    One Giant Leap
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    Boy Who Invented TV, The: The Story of Philo Farnsworth
    The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth
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    Frank O. Gehry: Outside In
    Frank O. Gehry: Outside In
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    Thunder Birds: Nature's Flying Predators
    Thunder Birds: Nature's Flying Predators
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    Chuck Close: Face Book
    Chuck Close: Face Book
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    Black Hole Is Not a Hole, A
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    Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
    Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
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    Inkblot: Drip, Splat, and Squish Your Way to Creativity
    Inkblot: Drip, Splat, and Squish Your Way to Creativity
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    Scraps Book, The: Notes from a Colorful Life
    The Scraps Book: Notes from a Colorful Life
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    Girl from the Tar Paper School, The: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
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    Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World
    Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World
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    Streak, The: How Joe Dimaggio Became America's Hero
    The Streak: How Joe Dimaggio Became America's Hero
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    How to Build a Museum: Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture
    How to Build a Museum: Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • by Tonya Bolden
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    Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924
    Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924
  • by Deborah Hopkinson
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    George vs. George: The Revolutionary War as Seen from Both Sides
    George vs. George: The Revolutionary War as Seen from Both Sides
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    Darwin: With Glimpses into his Private Journal & Letters
    Darwin: With Glimpses into his Private Journal & Letters
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    Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator
    Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator
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    In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry
    In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry
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    Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
    Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
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    Grand Mosque of Paris, The: A Story of How Muslims Saved Jews During the Holocaust
    The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Saved Jews During the Holocaust
  • by Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah DeSaix
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    Emperor's Silent Army, The: Terracotta Warriors of Ancient China
    The Emperor's Silent Army: Terracotta Warriors of Ancient China
  • by Jane O'Connor
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    Life in the Boreal Forest
    Life in the Boreal Forest
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    Those Rebels, John & Tom
    Those Rebels, John & Tom
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    Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle
    Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle
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    Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library
    Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library
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    Dive!: World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific
    Dive!: World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific
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    Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness
    Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness
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    Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
    Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
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    Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
    Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
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    Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story about Brain Science
    Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story about Brain Science
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    Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
    Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
  • by Chris Crowe
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    Leonardo's Horse
    Leonardo's Horse
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    Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley
    Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley
  • by Sally M. Walker
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    Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
    Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
  • by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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    Trouble Begins at 8, The: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West
    The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West
  • by Sid Fleischman
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    3-D ABC: A Sculptural Alphabet
    3-D ABC: A Sculptural Alphabet
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    ER Vets
    ER Vets
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    Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story
    Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story
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    How Many Baby Pandas?
    How Many Baby Pandas?
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    Kids on Strike!
    Kids on Strike!
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    With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote
    With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote
  • by Ann Bausum
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    Yellow House, The: Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin Side by Side
    The Yellow House: Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin Side by Side
  • by Susan Goldman Rubin and Jos. A. Smith
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    Mosquito Bite
    Mosquito Bite
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    Birmingham Sunday
    Birmingham Sunday
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    Rescues!
    Rescues!
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    Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship
    Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship
  • by Russell Freedman
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    Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein
    Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein
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    Construction Zone
    Construction Zone
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    Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter
    Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter
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    Comics Confidential: Thirteen Graphic Novelists Talk Story, Craft, and Life Outside the Box
    Comics Confidential: Thirteen Graphic Novelists Talk Story, Craft, and Life Outside the Box
  • by Leonard S. Marcus
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    W Is for Webster: Noah Webster and His American Dictionary
    W Is for Webster: Noah Webster and His American Dictionary
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    Game Changers
    Game Changers
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    Confucius: The Golden Rule
    Confucius: The Golden Rule
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    Cat with the Yellow Star, The: Coming of Age in Terezin
    The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin
  • by Susan Goldman Rubin and Ela Weissberger
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    Boy Named Beckoning, A: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero
    A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero
  • by Gina Capaldi
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    Ice Bears
    Ice Bears
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    William Shakespeare & the Globe
    William Shakespeare & the Globe
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    Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
    Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
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    For Good Measure: The Ways We Say How Much, How Far, How Heavy, How Big, How Old
    For Good Measure: The Ways We Say How Much, How Far, How Heavy, How Big, How Old
  • by Ken Robbins
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    Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews
    Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews
  • by Ellen Levine
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    Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
    Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
  • by Karen Blumenthal
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    Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's 'Chocolate Pilot'
    Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's 'Chocolate Pilot'
  • by Michael O. Tunnell
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    Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas
    Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas
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    To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers
    To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers
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    Voices of the Alamo
    Voices of the Alamo
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    Forbidden Schoolhouse, The: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students
    The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students
  • by Suzanne Jurmain
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    For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
    For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
  • by Peggy Thomas and Laura Jacques
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    Amazing Harry Kellar: Great American Magician
    Amazing Harry Kellar: Great American Magician
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    Secrets of the Sphinx
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    Seurat and La Grande Jatte: Connecting the Dots
    Seurat and La Grande Jatte: Connecting the Dots
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    Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam
    Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam
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    Cod's Tale, The
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    B. Franklin, Printer
    B. Franklin, Printer
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    Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin, The
    The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin
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    Michelangelo
    Michelangelo
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    Wild and Swampy
    Wild and Swampy
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    Pick-And-Shovel Poet: The Journeys of Pascal D'Angelo
    Pick-And-Shovel Poet: The Journeys of Pascal D'Angelo
  • by Jim Murphy
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    Wild Dogs: Past and Present
    Wild Dogs: Past and Present
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    Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
    Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
  • by Andrea Warren
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    Brooklyn Bridge
    Brooklyn Bridge
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    Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Admiral Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter
    Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Admiral Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter
  • by Katherine Kirkpatrick
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    Black and White Airmen: Their True History
    Black and White Airmen: Their True History
  • by John Fleischman
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    Washington at Valley Forge
    Washington at Valley Forge
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    Great Serum Race, The: Blazing the Iditarod Trail
    The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail
  • by Debbie S. Miller and Jon Van Zyle
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    Leonardo, the Beautiful Dreamer
    Leonardo, the Beautiful Dreamer
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    Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso
    Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso
  • by Susanna Reich
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    Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age
    Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age
  • by Cheryl Bardoe
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    Noah Webster: Weaver of Words
    Noah Webster: Weaver of Words
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    About Reptiles: A Guide for Children
    About Reptiles: A Guide for Children
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    Author Talk
    Author Talk
  • by Leonard S. Marcus
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    Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: A Photobiography of Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews
    Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: A Photobiography of Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews
  • by Ann Bausum
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    Gandhi
    Gandhi
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    Far from Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage
    Far from Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage
  • by Sophie Webb
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    Fire in Their Eyes: Wildfires and the People Who Fight Them
    Fire in Their Eyes: Wildfires and the People Who Fight Them
  • by Karen Magnuson Beil
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    Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty
    Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty
  • by Russell Freedman
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    Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled: How Do We Know What Dinosaurs Really Looked Like?
    Scaly Spotted Feathered Frilled: How Do We Know What Dinosaurs Really Looked Like?
  • by Catherine Thimmesh
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    Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, & Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and...
    Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, & Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and...
  • by Ann Bausum
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