Showing 1–8 of 8 titles

• Audience: Middle
• Genre: History
• Award year: 2019

• 

  All that Trash: The Story of the 1987 Garbage Barge and Our Problem with Stuff

  By Meghan McCarthy

  In 1987, a garbage barge spends five months adrift in the Atlantic, unsuccessfully attempting to find a place to dump its contents.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History
  • Notable Children's Books 2019
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9781481477529
• 

  The Eye that Never Sleeps: How Detective Pinkerton Saved President Lincoln

  By Marissa Moss, Jeremy Holmes (Illustrator)

  Modern illustrations and lively text combine to relate the early history of the Pinkerton Detective Agency and how they thwarted an attempt to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2019
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9781419730641
• 

  Hammering for Freedom

  By Rita Lorraine Hubbard, John Holyfield (Illustrator)

  In informative paragraphs and expressive paintings, this picture book tells the story of an enslaved blacksmith who steadfastly worked to buy freedom for himself and his family.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2019
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9781600609695
• 

  Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968

  By Alice Faye Duncan, R. Gregory Christie (Translator)

  Nine-year-old Lorraine, whose daddy is a sanitation worker, recounts the two-month sanitation strike led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History
  • Notable Children's Books 2019
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9781629797182
• 

  No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas

  By Tonya Bolden, Don Tate (Illustrator)

  Junius G. Groves went from being enslaved in Kentucky to owning 500 acres in Kansas and making his fortune by growing potatoes.

  • Nonfiction, History, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2019
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9780385752763
• 

  Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How Monopoly Was Invented

  By Tanya Lee Stone, Steven Salerno (Illustrator)

  This picture-book history offers a spirited account of the evolution of the popular board game and the people who were involved over the years in its creation.

  • Nonfiction, History, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2019
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9781627791687
• 

  So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk toward Freedom

  By Gary D. Schmidt, Daniel Minter (Illustrator)

  This poetic and haunting picture-book biography reflects the larger-than-life experiences of abolitionist Sojourner Truth.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2019
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9781626728721
• 

  Thirty Minutes over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story

  By Marc Tyler Nobleman, Melissa Iwai (Illustrator)

  This is the little-known story of a Japanese WWII pilot who unsuccessfully attempted to bomb the Oregon coast, and years later reconciled with Oregonians he had targeted.

  • Nonfiction, History, World History, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2019
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9780544430761