History - United States - 20th Century
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Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
$15.99 Add to cartOn March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City burst into flames. The factory was crowded. The doors were locked to ensure workers stay inside. One hundred forty-six people–mostl… [more below]
- Author: Marrin, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0553499351
- Language: English
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A Teddy Bear for Emily–And President Roosevelt, Too
$18.99 Add to cartDiscover the fascinating true story of Jewish immigrants who played a key role in the creation of the beloved teddy bear, connecting their humble Brooklyn candy shop to the President of the United Sta… [more below]
- Author: Churnin, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 06 2025
- ISBN10: 080750422X
- Language: English
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Wartime Secrets, Assassination Plots, and More Conspiracy Theories about U.S. History
$31.32 Read moreWas there a secret plot to kill President John F. Kennedy? Did the U.S. government know that the Pearl Harbor attack was going to happen? Conspiracy theories have cropped up since the U.S. formed. Unc… [more below]
- Series: Investigating Conspiracy Theories
- Author: Simpson, Phillip W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 166907756X
- Language: English
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Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission
$8.99 Add to cartExplore the inspiring biographies and gripping historical accounts of the true story books in the Everyone Can Be a Reader (Nonfiction) series, expertly designed to engage reluctant readers and provid… [more below]
- Series: Everyone Can Be a Reader (Nonfiction)
- Author: Long, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 145495860X
- Language: English
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On This Day in History: A Kid’s Day-By-Day Guide to 2,675 Significant Events
$14.99 Read moreUnearth all of history’s most significant events for every day of the year!
In On This Day in History, kids who love facts and trivia will spend hours poring over 2,675 milestones in sports, music,
- Author: Bushel & Peck Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 345
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1638192006
- Language: English
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Coming to America Through the Angel Island Immigration Station: A History Seeking Adventure
$9.99 Read moreYOU are an Asian immigrant in the early 1900s. You dream of a life in American, but first you’ll have to pass through the Angel Island Immigration Station. How long will you be stuck there? And will y… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Seeking History
- Author: Collins, Ailynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669032728
- Language: English
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The President Has Been Shot!: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
$12.99 Add to cartThis YALSA-ALA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award Finalist is a breathtaking and dramatic account of JFK’s assassination by NY Times bestselling author of CHASING LINCOLN’S KILLER.
In his award… [more below]
- Author: Swanson, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0545872197
- Language: English
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Kids on the March: 15 Stories of Speaking Out, Protesting, and Fighting for Justice
$16.95 Read moreFrom the March on Washington to March for Our Lives to Black Lives Matter, the powerful stories of kid-led protest in America. Kids have always been activists. They have even launched movement… [more below]
- Author: Long, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 164375100X
- Language: English
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The Supreme Court and Us
$17.99 Read moreTwo kids learn about the Supreme Court with the help of key figures from US history.
Ada and Bea are on a tour of Washington, DC, learning all about the US Supreme Court, from its founding in 1789 to- Author: Mihaly, Christy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0807576646
- Language: English
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Picturing a Nation: The Great Depression’s Finest Photographers Introduce America to Itself
$24.99 Add to cartA National Book Award winner mines photographic gold to show–and tell–the story of the Great Depression.
In an exquisitely curated volume of 140 full-color and black-and-white photographs, Martin W- Author: Sandler, Martin W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1536215252
- Language: English
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Fighting for the Civil Rights Act of 1964: A History Seeking Adventure
$34.65 Read moreYOU are fighting for equity and equal rights during the turbulent 1960s. How will you take part in this historic battle? Will you join the Freedom Riders to fight segregation on buses? Will you sit in… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Seeking History
- Author: Smith, Elliott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 166905828X
- Language: English
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A Storm Too Soon (Young Readers Edition): A Remarkable True Survival Story in 80-Foot Seas
$14.99 Read moreA spellbinding tale of maritime disaster, survival, and an absolutely daring rescue from Michael J. Tougias, the author of The Finest Hours, which is now a major motion picture.
When a forty-seven-fo- Series: True Rescue
- Author: Tougias, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 125011537X
- Language: English
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If You Were a Kid During the Civil Rights Movement (If You Were a Kid)
$7.95 Read moreFollow along with two girls as they find themselves in the middle of a civil rights demonstration, and find out how the fight for equality changed the country forever.
Joyce Jenkins has recently moved … [more below]
- Series: If You Were a Kid
- Author: Hooks, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0531230988
- Language: English
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The President Has Been Shot!: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
$18.99 Read moreA YALSA-ALA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award Finalist
A breathtaking and dramatic account of the JFK assassination by the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Lincoln’s Killer.
In his
- Author: Swanson, James L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0545490073
- Language: English
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Vaccines Change the World
$19.99 Read more2022 Foreword INDIES Finalist – Juvenile Nonfiction
With its colorful text and illustrations, this book explains the world’s pandemics and the people who helped save us from them with vaccines.
Unlike
- Series: Science in Action
- Author: King-Cargile, Gillian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0807584819
- Language: English
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Surviving as a Migrant Worker in the Great Depression: A History Seeking Adventure
$9.99 Read moreYOU are struggling to survive during the Great Depression. As a migrant worker, you travel from place to place hoping to earn enough money to get by. How will you find a way to feed and clothe yoursel… [more below]
- Series: You Choose: Seeking History
- Author: Doeden, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1669058107
- Language: English
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1919 the Year That Changed America
$24.99 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
1919 was a world-shaking year. America was recovering from World War I and black soldiers returned to racism so violent that that summer would become known as th- Author: Sandler, Martin W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1681198010
- Language: English
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The Voice That Won the Vote: How One Woman’s Words Made History: How One Woman’s Words Made History
$16.99 Read moreIn August of 1920, women’s suffrage in America came down to the vote in Tennessee. If the Tennessee legislature approved the 19th amendment it would be ratified, giving all American women the right to… [more below]
- Author: Boxer, Elisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1534110496
- Language: English
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Migrant Mother: How a Photograph Defined the Great Depression
$9.99 Read moreIn the 1930s, photographer Dorothea Lange traveled the American West documenting the experiences of those devastated by the Great Depression. She wanted to use the power of the image to effect politic… [more below]
- Series: Captured History
- Author: Nardo, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: December 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0756544483
- Language: English
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Justice Rising: 12 Amazing Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement
$18.99 Add to cartA celebration of twelve Black women who were pivotal to the civil rights movement and the fight for justice and equal rights in America. On the Black Caucus American Library Association’s Best of the … [more below]
- Author: Russell-Brown, Katheryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0593403541
- Language: English
