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769489
Bill Gates : founder of Microsoft [Computer pioneers]by Roza, Greg 

BTSB Prebound(PowerKids, 2017)

BTSB #: 769489 Available

Dewey: 338.7/BAges: 9-12   
AR: 6.2 MG Lexile: 1030

Subjects: Gates, Bill,|d1955- Microsoft Corporation - History Businessmen Computer software industry - United States - History


Summary: A biography of Bill Gates, one of the biggest names in computer history as a pioneering founder of Microsoft and a groundbreaking computer programmer.


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365839
Birthday cake for George Washington by Ganeshram, Ramin 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2016)

BTSB #: 365839 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-9   
Lexile: 760

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Washington, George,|d1732-1799 - Fiction Slaves - Fiction Cooks - Fiction Father-daughter relationship - Fiction Cake - Fiction African Americans - Fiction United States - History|y1783-1815 - Fiction Philadelphia (Pa.) - History|y1783-1815 - Fiction


Summary: It is President Washington's birthday, and Hercules, Washington's slave and head chef, is planning to bake a special cake, provided he and his daughter can find a substitute for sugar.


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929509
Black dove, white raven by Wein, Elizabeth 

BTSB Prebound(Disney/Hyperion, 2015)

BTSB #: 929509 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.8 UG Lexile: 900

Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction


Subjects: Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 - Fiction Americans - Ethiopia - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Air pilots - Fiction Adventure fiction Race relations - Fiction Adoption - Fiction Ethiopia - History|y1889-1974 - Fiction


Summary: Having moved to Ethiopia to avoid the prejudices of 1930s America, Emilia Menotti, her black adoptive brother Teo, and their mother Rhoda, a stunt pilot, are devoted to their new country even after war with Italy looms, drawing the teens into the conflict.


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158064
Black girl unlimited : the remarkable story of a teenage wizard by Brown, Echo 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2020)

BTSB #: 158064 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 6.1 UG Lexile: 920

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Poverty - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Cleveland (Ohio) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: From age six through her high school valedictory speech, believing she and her mother are wizards helps young Echo cope with poverty, hunger, her mother's drug abuse, and much more.


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502249
Black is a rainbow color by Joy, Angela 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 502249 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   


Genres: Multicultural


Subjects: Stories in rhyme African Americans - History - Fiction


Summary: A child reflects on the meaning of being Black in this anthem about a people, a culture, a history, and a legacy that lives on.


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416784
Black kids by Hammonds Reed, Christina 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2020)

BTSB #: 416784 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.3 UG Lexile: 830 HL F&P: Z+

Genres: Multicultural Family Life


Subjects: Race relations - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 - Fiction Family life - California - Los Angeles - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Los Angeles (Calif.) - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.


476428
Black Tuesday and the Great Depression [Uncovering the past: analyzing primary sources]by Hyde, Natalie 

BTSB Prebound(Crabtree, 2016)

BTSB #: 476428 Available

Dewey: 330.973/NAges: 10-13   
AR: 6.7 MG Lexile: 990

Subjects: Great Depression, 1929-1939 - United States Economic history|y1918-1945 World politics|y1933-1945 United States - History|y1933-1945 United States - History|y1919-1933 United States - Economic conditions|y1918-1945


Summary: Explores the causes of the stock market crash in 1929 and the resulting Great Depression.


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489954
Blood and germs : the Civil War battle against wounds and disease [Medical Fiascoes]by Jarrow, Gail 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2020)

BTSB #: 489954 Available

Dewey: 610/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.8 MG+ Lexile: 1030 F&P: Z+

Subjects: Medicine - History|y19th century Wounds and injuries Diseases United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War


Summary: Explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts.


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622330
Blood water paint by McCullough, Joy 

Paperback(Dutton Books, 2019)

BTSB #: 622330 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.5 UG RC: 5.5 9-12 Lexile: 740 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction


Subjects: Gentileschi, Artemisia,|d1593-1652 or 1653 - Fiction Novels in verse Artists - Fiction Sex role - Fiction Rape - Fiction Trials (Rape) - Fiction Renaissance - Italy - Fiction Italy - History|y1559-1789 - Fiction


Summary: In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.


827083
Blossom and the firefly by Smith, Sherri L. 

Paperback(Penguin Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 827083 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-18   
AR: 5.2 UG Lexile: 720 HL

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life


Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Japan - Fiction Kamikaze pilots - Fiction Musicians - Fiction Family life - Japan - Fiction Japan - History|y1926-1945 - Fiction


Summary: Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary.


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739030
Bones in the White House : Thomas Jefferson's mammoth by Ransom, Candice F. 

BTSB Prebound(Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 2020)

BTSB #: 739030 Available

Dewey: 569.67/NAges: 5-8   
AR: 5.1 LG Lexile: 910 AD F&P: Q

Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas,|d1743-1826 Mammoths Fossils - History Extinction (Biology)


Summary: A fascinating story about Thomas Jefferson and his obsessive quest to find America's first complete mastodon skeleton.


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595690
Book rescuer : how a mensch from Massachusetts saved Yiddish literature for generations to come by Macy, Sue 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster, 2019)

BTSB #: 595690 Available

Dewey: 20.75/BAges: 5-8   
AR: 5 LG Lexile: 890

Subjects: Lansky, Aaron,|d1955- National Yiddish Book Center (U.S.) - History Book collectors - Massachusetts - New Bedford - Biography Jewish men - Massachusetts - New Bedford - Biography Yiddish language - Revival


Summary: The story of one man's heroic effort to save the world's Yiddish books.


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984854
Book thief by Zusak, Markus 

Paperback(Knopf, 2007)

BTSB #: 984854 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   


Subjects: Books and reading - Fiction Storytelling - Fiction Death - Fiction Jews - Germany - History|y1933-1945 - Fiction World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Rescue - Fiction Germany - History|y1933-1945 - Fiction


Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. Includes readers' guide.


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114647
Books by horseback : a librarian's brave journey to deliver books to children by Berne, Emma Carlson 

BTSB Prebound(Little Bee Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 114647 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   


Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction


Subjects: Packhorse librarians - Fiction Librarians - Fiction Traveling libraries - Fiction Libraries - Fiction Books and reading - Fiction Appalachian Region - History|y20th century - Fiction


Summary: A young librarian rides a pack horse through the mountains to deliver books to children in Appalachia during the Great Depression. Includes historical note on the packhorse library project.


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809546
Born to fly : the first women's air race across America by Sheinkin, Steve 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2019)

BTSB #: 809546 Available

Dewey: 797.5/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 6.3 MG RC: 6.6 6-8 Lexile: 930

Subjects: Powder Puff Derby Women air pilots - United States - History Airplane racing - United States - History


Summary: The story of the 1929 Women's Air Derby, the first official all-female air race in the U.S.


878783
Born to ride : a story about bicycle face by Theule, Larissa 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2019)

BTSB #: 878783 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 2.7 LG Lexile: 550 AD F&P: M

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life


Subjects: Bicycles - Fiction Gender role - Fiction Siblings - Fiction Family life - New York (State) - Rochester - Fiction Rochester (N.Y.) - History|y19th century - Fiction


Summary: In Rochester, New York, in 1896, Louisa Belinda Bellflower defies convention and ignores her brother's warnings by learning to ride a bicycle. Includes a history of bicycling and its connection to the women's rights movement.


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640188
Boston Jacky : being an account of the further adventures of Jacky Faber, taking care of business [Bloody Jack adventure]by Meyer, L. A. 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)

BTSB #: 640188 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 6.5 MG+ Lexile: 1010

Genres: Adventure Fiction


Subjects: Gender role - Fiction Adventure fiction Immigrants - Fiction Irish - United States - Fiction Temperance - Fiction Boston (Mass.) - History|y1600-1775, Colonial period - Fiction


Summary: The irrepressible Jacky Faber, recently arrived in Boston, finds herself at odds with the Women's Temperance Union and local residents angry at the arrival of hundreds of Irish immigrants on a ship owned by Faber Shipping Worldwide.


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848342
Bowl full of peace : a true story by Stelson, Caren Barzelay 

BTSB Prebound(Carolrhoda, 2020)

BTSB #: 848342 Available

Dewey: 940.54/BAges: 6-8   
AR: 3.6 LG Lexile: 650

Subjects: Yasui, Sachiko Atomic bomb victims - Japan - Nagasaki-shi - Biography World War, 1939-1945 - Japan - Nagasaki-shi Nagasaki-shi (Japan) - History|yBombardment, 1945


Summary: Six-year-old Sachiko and her family suffered greatly after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and in the years that followed, the miraculous survival of a ceramic bowl became a key part of Sachiko's journey toward peace.


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445588
Boy who thought outside the box : the story of video game inventor Ralph Baer [People Who Shaped Our World]by Wessels, Marcie 

BTSB Prebound(Sterling Children's Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 445588 Available

Dewey: 794.8092/BAges: 5-9   
Lexile: 740

Subjects: Baer, Ralph H Video games - United States - Biography Inventors - United States - Biography Video games industry - United States - History


Summary: A picture book biography of Ralph Baer, nicknamed "The Father of Videogames," which shows how a great inventor found a way to transform the early television set into a vehicle for gaming.


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158054
Boys in the boat : the true story of an American team's epic journey to win gold at the 1936 Olympics by Brown, Daniel 

Paperback(Puffin Books, 2016)

BTSB #: 158054 Available

Dewey: 797.12/NAges: 11-14   


Subjects: University of Washington - Rowing - History Olympic Games|n(11th :|d1936 : - Berlin, Germany) Rowing - United States - History Rowers - United States - Biography


Summary: The true story of the American rowing team that overcame great difficulties to win the rowing race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.


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