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• Audience: Older
• List: John Newbery Medal
• Genre: US History

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  Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

  By Phillip Hoose

  Hoose reveals the true story of an unsung hero of the Montgomery bus boycott in a work that seamlessly merges Colvin's own recollections with the narrative voice, providing a uniquely personal view of Colvin and the civil rights movement.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History
  • John Newbery Medal 2010 (Honor Title), Notable Children's Books 2010, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2010 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780374313227
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  The Great Fire

  By Jim Murphy

  The riveting narrative of the 1871 Chicago fire thrusts the reader into the center of the raging conflagration. Murphy weaves eyewitness accounts of the disaster with factual and social commentary, period photographs, etchings, and maps into memorable nonfiction writing.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History
  • John Newbery Medal 1996 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 0-590-47267-4