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568457
March : book two [March]by Lewis, John 

BTSB Prebound(Top Shelf, 2015)

BTSB #: 568457 Available

Dewey: 323.1196/NAges: 13-16   
AR: 5.5 MG+RC: 6.5 6-8 Lexile: 850 GN

Subjects: Lewis, John,|d1940-2020 Civil rights movements Civil rights workers Historical comic books, strips, etc


Summary: Congressman John Lewis takes us behind the scenes of some of the most pivotal moments of the Civil Rights Movement. In graphic novel form, his first-hand account makes these historic events both accessible and relevant to an entire new generation of Americans. In graphic novel format.


23.96 *

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916131
Sinking the Sultana : a Civil War story of imprisonment, greed, and a doomed journey home by Walker, Sally M. 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2017)

BTSB #: 916131 Available

Dewey: 976.8/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.7 MG+RC: 10.3 6-8 Lexile: 1090 F&P: Z

Subjects: Sultana (Steamboat) Steamboat disasters Mississippi River


Summary: The worst maritime disaster in American history was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River-and it could have been prevented.


6.50 *

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748959
Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you by Reynolds, Jason 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2020)

BTSB #: 748959 Available

Dewey: 305.8009/NAges: 12-16   
AR: 7.4 MG+ Lexile: 1000 F&P: Z+

Subjects: Racism - United States - History United States - Race relations - History


Summary: A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today.


151828
Strike! : the farm workers' fight for their rights by Brimner, Larry Dane 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2014)

BTSB #: 151828 Available

Dewey: 331/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 8.5 MG RC: 11.6 6-8 Lexile: 1220

Subjects: Chavez, Cesar,|d1927-1993 United Farm Workers Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970 Filipino Americans Mexican Americans Migrant labor


Summary: Oral histories, FBI files, personal diaries, letters, and newspapers tell the dramatic story of the Delano grape strike and the rise (and fall) of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers of America.


311458
Surrender tree : poems of Cuba's struggle for freedom by Engle, Margarita 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2008)

BTSB #: 311458 Available

Dewey: 811/NAges: 12-18   
AR: 6.4 MG RC: 5.2 6-8 Lexile: NP F&P: Z

Subjects: American poetry Cuba - History - Poetry


Summary: Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. This history in verse creates a lyrical portrait of Cuba.


6.25 *

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441479
They went left by Hesse, Monica 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2020)

BTSB #: 441479 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.1 UG Lexile: 730 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Holocaust survivors - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Jews - Poland - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Poland - Fiction Europe - History|y1945- - Fiction Poland - History|yGerman occupation, 1940-1945 - Fiction


Summary: Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life.


9.01 *

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361462
This light between us : a novel of World War II by Fukuda, Andrew Xia 

Paperback(Tor Teen, 2020)

BTSB #: 361462 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-17   
AR: 5 MG+ Lexile: 690

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: United States.|bArmy.|bRegimental Combat Team, 442nd - Fiction Pen pals - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Japanese Americans - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 - Fiction Jews - France - Paris - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction


Summary: In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Levy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.


9.83 *

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361464
This light between us : a novel of World War II by Fukuda, Andrew Xia 

BTSB Prebound(Tor Teen, 2020)

BTSB #: 361464 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-17   
AR: 5 MG+ Lexile: 690

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: United States.|bArmy.|bRegimental Combat Team, 442nd - Fiction Pen pals - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Japanese Americans - Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945 - Fiction Jews - France - Paris - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction


Summary: In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Levy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.


22.58 *

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151826
Twelve days in May : freedom ride 1961 by Brimner, Larry Dane 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2017)

BTSB #: 151826 Available

Dewey: 323.1/NAges: 10-18   
AR: 7 MG Lexile: 1080

Subjects: Civil rights workers Civil rights movements Freedom Rides|y1961 Segregation Race relations - United States Southern States


Summary: For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the "Freedom Riders," traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled.


445353
Unbroken : an Olympian's journey from airman to castaway to captive by Hillenbrand, Laura 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2014)

BTSB #: 445353 Temp OS

Dewey: 940.54/BAges: 12-16   
AR: 6.4 UG RC: 8.6 9-12 Lexile: 850

Subjects: Zamperini, Louis,|d1917-2014 World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons - Japan Prisoners of war - United States - Biography Prisoners of war - Japan - Biography World War, 1939-1945 - American aerial operations Long-distance runners - United States - Biography Olympic athletes - United States - Biography


Summary: An Olympian becomes an airman when World War II breaks out. When his plane crashes in the Pacific, he begins a journey driving him to the limits of endurance where he responds to desperation with ingenuity, to suffering with hope and humor, to brutality with rebellion.


556860
Under a painted sky by Lee, Stacey 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2015)

BTSB #: 556860 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.9 MG RC: 4.5 9-12 Lexile: 730

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Adventure fiction Runaway children - Fiction Gender role - Fiction Chinese Americans - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Oregon National Historic Trail - Fiction West (U.S.) - History|y1848-1860 - Fiction


Summary: In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri.


209402
We are not free by Chee, Traci 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020)

BTSB #: 209402 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.5 UG Lexile: 860

Genres: Historical Fiction Multicultural


Subjects: Japanese Americans - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction California - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.


842992
What the night sings : a novel by Stamper, Vesper 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2018)

BTSB #: 842992 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.9 UG RC: 5.4 9-12 Lexile: 720 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Refugees - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Fiction Jews - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Germany - History|y1945-1955 - Fiction


Summary: Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.


955354
White Rose by Wilson, Kip 

Paperback(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021)

BTSB #: 955354 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 7 UG RC: 10.2 9-12 Lexile: 1080

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Scholl, Sophie,|d1921-1943 - Fiction White Rose (German resistance group) - Fiction Novels in verse World War, 1939-1945 - Fiction Resistance to government - Fiction National socialists - Fiction Germany - History|y1933-1945 - Fiction


Summary: Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.


8.19 *

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311486
With a star in my hand : Ruben Dario, poetry hero by Engle, Margarita 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum, 2020)

BTSB #: 311486 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 7.1 UG Lexile:  NP F&P: Z+

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Dario, Ruben,|d1867-1916 - Childhood and youth - Fiction Novels in verse Poets - Fiction Nicaragua - History|y1838-1909 - Fiction Nicaragua - History|y1937-1979 - Fiction


Summary: A novel in verse about the life and work of Ruben Dario, a Nicaraguan poet who started life as an abandoned child and grew to become the father of a new literary movement. Includes historical notes.


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