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AIN'T NOTHING BUT A MAN: MY QUEST TO FIND THE REAL JOHN HENRY by Scott Reynolds Nelson with Marc Aronson, National Geographic, January 2008, 64p. ISBN: 978-1-4263-0000-4  

ANDY WARHOL: PRINCE OF POP by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan, Random House/Delacorte, October 2004, includes 32 page color insert, ISBN: 0-385-73056-X; Library ISBN: 0-385-90079-1

BEN FRANKLIN'S ALMANAC: BEING A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE GOOD GENTLEMAN'S LIFE by Candace Fleming, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, September 2003, ISBN 0-689-83549-3

BRING ME SOME APPLES AND I'LL MAKE YOU A PIE: A STORY ABOUT EDNA LEWIS by Robbin Gourley, Clarion, 48p., January 2009, ISBN: 978-0-618-15836-2

COSECHANDO ESPERANZA: LA HISTORIA DE CÉSAR CHÁVEZ por Kathleen Krull, ilustrado por Yuyi Morales, Harcourt/Libros Viajeros, ISBN 0-15-204755-7; 0-15-201437-3 

THE DINOSAURS OF WATERHOUSE HAWKINS by Barbara Kerley, Illustrated by Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, September 2001 

ESCAPE: THE STORY OF THE GREAT HOUDINI by Sid Fleischman, Greenwillow, July 2006, ISBN: 0-06-085094-9; Libr. ISBN:  0-06-085095-7 

FIGHT ON: MARY CHURCH TERRELL'S BATTLE FOR INTEGRATION by Dennis Brindell Fradin & Judith Bloom Fradin, Clarion Books, ISBN 0-618-13349-6

HAIL TO THE CHIEFS: PRESIDENTIAL MISCHIEF, MORALS, AND MALARKEY FROM GEORGE W TO GEORGE W by Barbara Holland, The Permanent Press, ISBN 1-57962-081-7

HANK AARON AND THE HOME RUN THAT CHANGED AMERICA by Tom Stanton, HarperCollins/William Morrow, March 2004, ISBN 0-0-06-057976-5

HERO OF THE HIGH SEAS: JOHN PAUL JONES AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION by Michael L. Cooper, National Geographic, September 2006, ISBN: 0-7922-5547-X  

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON: DREAMS TAKING FLIGHT by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Amy June Bates, September 2008, 40p., ISBN: 978-1-4169-7129-0

HITLER YOUTH: GROWING UP IN HITLER'S SHADOW by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Scholastic Nonfiction, February 2005, ISBN: 0-439-35379-3   

HONDA: THE BOY WHO DREAMED OF CARS by Mark Weston, illustrated by Katie Yamasaki, Lee & Low Books, September 2008, 32p., ISBN: 978-1-60060-246-7

HOW ANGEL PETERSON GOT HIS NAME AND OTHER OUTRAGEOUS TALES ABOUT EXTREME SPORTS by Gary Paulsen, Random House/Wendy Lamb Books, January 2003

I AND I: BOB MARLEY by Tony Medina and Jesse Joshua Watson, Lee & Low, April 2009, 48p., ISBN: 978-1-60060-257-3

JANE ADDAMS: CHAMPION OF DEMOCRACY by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin, Clarion, 2006, ISBN: 0-618-50436-2 

JOHN LENNON: ALL I WANT IS THE TRUTH by Elizabeth Partridge, Penguin/Viking, October 2005, ISBN: 0-670-05954-4 

JOHN LEWIS: FROM FREEDOM RIDER TO CONGRESSMAN by Christine M. Hill, Enslow Publishers, July 2002, 128 p., b/w photos, timeline  

KING OF THE MILD FRONTIER: AN ILL-ADVISED AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Chris Crutcher, Greenwillow, April 2003

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER by by James Cross Giblin, Clarion Books, April 2002  

THE LINCOLNS: A SCRAPBOOK LOOK AT ABRAHAM AND MARY by Candace Fleming, Schwartz & Wade Books, October 2008, 176 pages, ISBN: 978-0-375-83618-3; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-375-93618-0

LOUIE! by Will Hillenbrand, Philomel, March 2009, 40p., ISBN: 978-399-24707-1 

LOUISA: THE LIFE OF LOUISA MAY ALCOTT by Yena Zeldis McDonough and Bethanne Andersen, Holt, August 2009, 48p., ISBN: 9780805081923

MENDEL'S DAUGHTER by Martin Lemelman

MICHAEL ROSEN'S SAD BOOK by Michael Rosen, Illustrated by Quentin Blake, Candlewick Press, March 2005, ISBN: 0-7636-2597-3 

MLK: JOURNEY OF A KING by Tonya Bolden, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007, ISBN: 0-8109-5476-1 

OUR ELEANOR: A SCRAPBOOK LOOK AT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S REMARKABLE LIFE by Candace Fleming, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/an Anne Schwartz Book, October 2005, ISBN: 0-689-86544-9

THE PASSIONATE EYE: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega Harper Entertainment, April 2001  

PHINEAS GAGE: A GRUESOME BUT TRUE STORY ABOUT BRAIN SCIENCE by John Fleischman, Houghton Mifflin, 2002

PLANTING THE TREES OF KENYA: THE STORY OF WANGARI MAATHAI by Claire A. Nivola, FSG/Frances Foster Books, April 2008, 32p. ISBN: 0-374-39918-2 

PONZI: THE MAN AND HIS LEGENDARY SCHEME by Mitchell Zuckoff, Random House, March 2005, ISBN: 0-4000-6039-7  

THE RISE AND FALL OF SENATOR JOE MCCARTHY by James Cross Giblin, Clarion Books, December 2009, 304p., ISBN: 978-0-618-61058-7

THE RADIOACTIVE BOY SCOUT: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor by Ken Silverstein, Random House, March 2004, ISBN: 0-375-50351-X 

A RIVER OF WORDS: THE STORY OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, July 2008, 32p. ISBN: 978-0-8028-5302-8

ROBERT F. KENNEDY: A TWENTIETH-CENTURY LIFE (UPCLOSE SERIES) by Marc Aronson, Viking, April 2007, ISBN: 0-670-06066-5 by Marc Aronson, Viking, April 2007, ISBN: 0-670-06066-5

RUNAWAY GIRL: THE ARTIST LOUISE BOURGEOIS by by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan, Abrams, March 2003, ISBN 0-8109-4237-2

SICKENED: THE MEMOIR OF A MUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY CHILDHOOD by Julie Gregory, Random House/Bantam, September 2003, ISBN 0-553-80307-7  

STITCHES: A MEMOIR by David Small, W.W. Norton & Co., September 2009, 344p., ISBN: 978-0-393-06857-3 

THOMAS JEFFERSON: DRAFTSMAN OF A NATION by Natalie S. Bober, University of Virginia Press, March 2007, ISBN: 978-0-8139-2632-2

THOREAU AT WALDEN by John Porcellino from the writings of Henry David Thoreau; with an introduction by D.B. Johnson, Hyperion/The Center for Cartoon Studies, April 2008, ISBN: 1-4231-0038-7 (hardcover); 1-4231-0039-5 (paperback)

TO DANCE: A BALLERINA'S GRAPHIC NOVEL by Siena Cherson Siegel with artwork by Mark Siegel, Aladdin Paperbacks, 2006, ISBN: 1-4169-2687-9

THE TROUBLE BEGINS AT 8: A LIFE OF MARK TWAIN IN THE WILD, WILD WEST by Sid Fleischman, Greenwillow, July 2008, 200p. ISBN: 978-0-06-134431-2

TWELVE ROUNDS TO GLORY: THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD ALI by Charles R. Smith Jr., illustrated by Bryan Collier, Candlewick, THE VOICE THAT CHALLENGED A NATION: MARIAN ANDERSON AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS by Russell Freedman. Clarion, May 2004. 128 pages. ISBN: 0-618-15976-2

WALT WHITMAN: WORDS FOR AMERICA by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, October 2004, 56 pages, ISBN: 0-439-35791-8   

WE ARE THE SHIP: THE STORY OF NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL by Kadir Nelson, Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, January 2008, 88p., ISBN: 0-7868-0832-2 

WORKING FIRE: THE MAKING OF AN ACCIDENTAL FIREMAN by Zac Unger, The Penguin Press, March 2004, ISBN: 1-59420-001-7

YOUR OWN, SYLVIA: A VERSE PORTRAIT OF SYLVIA PLATH by Stephanie Hemphill, Alfred A. Knopf, March 2007. ISBN: 0-385-83799-9;

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