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10,000 DAYS OF THUNDER: A HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR by Philip Caputo, Simon & Schuster/Byron Preiss Visual Publications, September 2005, ISBN: 0-689-86231-8

THE 9/11 REPORT: A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon, Hill and Wang, 2006, ISBN: 0-8090-5738-7

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

ALMOST ASTRONAUTS: 13 WOMEN WHO DARED TO DREAM by Tanya Lee Stone, Candlewick Press, February 2009, 134p. ISBN: 978-0-7636-3611-1

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

BIOFUEL POWER OF THE FUTURE: NEW WAYS OF TURNING ORGANIC MATTER INTO ENERGY by Chris Hayhurst, (The Library of Future Energy series), Rosen Publishing Group, 2003. 64 pages. 18-point type. ISBN: 0-8239-3659-7

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

CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER by James Swanson, Scholastic Press, February 2009, 196p., ISBN: 978-0-439-90354-7

THE CHEATING CULTURE: WHY MORE AMERICANS ARE DOING WRONG TO GET AHEAD by David Callahan, Harcourt, January 2004, ISBN 0-15-101018-8

CHEW ON THIS! EVERYTHING YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT FAST FOOD by Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson, Houghton Mifflin, May 2006, ISBN: 0-618-71031-0

CLOSE TO SHORE: THE TERRIFYING SHARK ATTACKS OF 1916 by Michael Capuzzo, Crown Publishers, April 2003, ISBN 0-375-82231-3

COAL: A HUMAN HISTORY by Barbara Freese, Perseus, February 2003, ISBN 0-7382-0400-5

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 

DAN'S ANGEL: A DETECTIVE'S GUIDE TO THE LANGUAGE OF PAINTINGS by Alexander Sturgis, illustrated by Lauren Child, Kane/Miller, September 2003, ISBN 1-929132-47-6

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

DUEL! BURR AND HAMILTON'S DEADLY WAR OF WORDS, by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Larry Day (ill.), Walker, June 2008, 40p., ISBN: 9780802795830  

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

EVERY HUMAN HAS RIGHTS: A PHOTOGRAPHIC DECLARATION FOR KIDS National Geographic, 2009, 48p., ISBN: 978-1-4263-0510-8 

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

FLESH & BLOOD SO CHEAP: THE TRIANGLE FIRE AND ITS LEGACY by Albert Marrin, Knopf, February 2011, 192p., ISBN: 978-0-375-86889-4

FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, HarperCollins/William Morrow, May 2005, ISBN: 0-06-073132-X  

FREEDOM RIDERS: JOHN LEWIS AND JIM ZWERG ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT by Ann Bausum, National Geographic, January 2006

FREEDOM WALKERS: THE STORY OF THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT by Russell Freedman, Holiday House, September 2006, ISBN: 0-8234-2031-0 

G IS FOR GOATS by Patricia Polacco, PenguinPutnam/Philomel, May 2003, ISBN 0-399-24018-7

THE GATE-KEEPERS: INSIDE THE ADMISSIONS PROCESS OF A PREMIER COLLEGE by Jacques Steinberg, Viking, September 2002  

GHOSTS OF WAR: MY TOUR OF DUTY by Ryan Smithson, Harper Teen, April 2009, 307p., ISBN: 978-0-06-166468-7; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-06-166470-0

GOLD IN THE WATER: THE TRUE STORY OF ORDINARY MEN AND THEIR EXTRAORDINARY DREAM OF OLYMPIC GLORY by P. H. Mullen, St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books

THE GUY BOOK: AN OWNER'S MANUAL by Mavis Jukes, Crown Publishers, 2002 

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  

IF AMERICA WERE A VILLAGE: A BOOK ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES by David J. Smith and Shelagh Armstrong, ill., Kids Can Press, August 2009, 32p., 978-1-55453-344-2

IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY: THE STORY OF AMERICA'S BILL OF RIGHTS by Russell Freedman, Holiday House, October 2003, ISBN 0-8234-1585-6

IS IT STILL CHEATING IF I DON'T GET CAUGHT? by The Ethics Guy, Bruce Weinstein, Ph.D., Roaring Brook/Flash Point, April 2009, 160p., paperback ISBN: 978-1-59643-306-9  

IT'S YOUR WORLD--IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, CHANGE IT: ACTIVISM FOR TEENAGERS by Mikki Halpin, Simon Pulse, September 2004, paperback ISBN: 0-689-87448-0 

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

LEFT FOR DEAD: A YOUNG MAN'S SEARCH FOR JUSTICE FOR THE USS INDIANAPOLIS by Pete Nelson, Preface by Hunter Scott, Random House/Delacorte Press, May 2002

LET ME PLAY: THE STORY OF TITLE IX, THE LAW THAT CHANGED THE FUTURE OF GIRLS IN AMERICA by Karen Blumenthal, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, June 2005, ISBN: 0-689-85957-0  

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

MARCHING FOR FREEDOM: WALK  TOGETHER, CHILDREN, AND DON'T YOU GROW WEARY by Elizabeth Partridge, Viking,  October 2009, 80p., ISBN: 978-0-670-01189-6

MEADOWLANDS: A WETLANDS SURVIVAL STORY by Thomas F. Yezerski, Farrar Straus Giroux, March 2011, 40p.. ISBN: 978-0-375-34913-4

MELTDOWN: A RACE AGAINST NUCLEAR DISASTER AT THREE MILE ISLAND by Wilborn Hampton, Candlewick Press, October 2001  

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 

A MORE PERFECT CONSTITUTION: 23 PROPOSALS TO REVITALIZE OUR CONSTITUTION AND MAKE AMERICA A FAIRER COUNTRY by Larry J. Sabato, Walker, October 2007, ISBN: 0-8027-1621-0

THE MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE: SUPERNOVAE, DARK ENERGY, AND BLACK HOLES (Scientists in the Field series) by Ellen Jackson, photos and illustrations by Nic Bishop, Houghton Mifflin, May 2008, 60p., ISBN: 978-0-618-56325-8  

NOBODY PARTICULAR and THE TRUTH ABOUT SPARROWS: NOBODY PARTICULAR: ONE WOMAN'S FIGHT TO SAVE THE BAYS by Molly Bang, Holt, 2000, 45 pages, ISBN: 0-8050-5396-4  

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

OUR WHITE HOUSE: LOOKING IN, LOOKING OUT by created by 108 renowned authors and illustrators, Candlewick Press, September 2008, 242p., ISBN: 978-0-7636-2067-7 

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 

POND CIRCLE by Betsy Franco and Stefano Vitale, ill., McElderry Books, June 2009, 32p., ISBN: 978-1-4169-4021-0 

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 RACE TO SAVE THE LORD GOD BIRD by Phillip Hoose, Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 2004, ISBN: 0-374-36173-8 

RADICAL READS: 101 YOUNG ADULT NOVELS ON THE EDGE by Joni Richards Bodart

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 

RATS: OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY & HABITAT OF THE CITY'S MOST UNWANTED INHABITANTS by Robert Sullivan, Bloomsbury, April 2004, ISBN 1-58234-385-3

RECYCLE THIS BOOK: 100 TOP CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHORS TELL YOU HOW TO GO GREEN edited by Dan Gutman, Yearling, March 2009, 267p., ISBN: 978-0-385-73721-0 

REMEMBER LITTLE ROCK by Paul Robert Walker, National Geographic, January 2009, 64p., ISBN: 978-1-4263-0402-6  

REVENGE OF THE WHALE: THE TRUE STORY OF THE WHALESHIP ESSEX by Nathaniel Philbrick, Putnam, September 2002

RIVER OF DREAMS: THE STORY OF THE HUDSON RIVER by Hudson Talbott, Putnam Juvenile, January 2009, 40p., ISBN: 978-0-399-24521-3

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

SEA OF GLORY: AMERICA'S VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY, THE US EXPLORING EXPEDITION, 1838-1842 by Nathaniel Philbrick, Viking, November 2003, ISBN: 0-670-03231-X 

SEEING THE BLUE BETWEEN: ADVICE AND INSPIRATION FOR YOUNG POETS compiled by Paul B. Janeczko, Candlewick, April 2002

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

SIT-IN: HOW FOUR FRIENDS STOOD UP BY SITTING DOWN by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney, ill., Little Brown, February 2010, 40p., ISBN: 978-0-316-07016-4

THE SMART ALECK'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN HISTORY by Adam Selzer, Delacorte, December 2009, 336p., ISBN: 978-0-385-73650-3; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-385-90613-5

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

THIS CHILD, EVERY CHILD: A BOOK ABOUT THE WORLD'S CHILDREN by David J. Smith and Shelagh Armstrong, ill., Kids Can Press, February 2011, 36p., ISBN: 978-1-55453-466-1

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

TRACKING TRASH: FLOTSAM, JETSAM, AND THE SCIENCE OF OCEAN MOTION by Loree Griffin Burns (Scientists in the Field series), Houghton Mifflin, 2007, 58p. ISBN: 0-618-58131-6

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

THE ULTIMATE WEAPON: THE RACE TO DEVELOP THE ATOMIC BOMB by Edward T. Sullivan, Holiday House, June 2007, ISBN: 08234-1855-3

TWELVE ROUNDS TO GLORY: THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD ALI by Charles R. Smith Jr., illustrated by Bryan Collier, Candlewick,

UP BEFORE DAYBREAK: COTTON AND PEOPLE IN AMERICA by Deborah Hopkinson, Scholastic Nonfiction, April 2006, ISBN: 0-439-63901-8

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

WAKE UP OUR SOULS: A CELEBRATION OF BLACK AMERICAN ARTISTS by Tonya Bolden, Harry N. Abrams Inc., published in association with the Smithsonian American  

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

WAR IS: SOLDIERS, SURVIVORS, AND STORYTELLERS TALK ABOUT WAR edited by Marc Aronson and Patty Campbell, Candlewick Press, September 2008, 200p., ISBN: 978-0-7636-3625-8   

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 

THE WHAT TO EXPECT BABY-SITTER'S HANDBOOK by Heidi Murkoff with Sharon Mazel, Workman, January 2004, ISBN 0-7611-2845-X  

WITH COURAGE AND CLOTH: WINNING THE FIGHT FOR A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO VOTE by Ann Bausum, National Geographic, September 2004, 112 pages, ISBN: 0-7922-7647-7

WITH THEIR EYES: SEPTEMBER 11TH--THE VIEW FROM A HIGH SCHOOL AT GROUND ZERO edited by Annie Thoms, Harper Tempest, September 2002

THE WOLVES ARE BACK by Jean Craighead George, illustrated by Wendell Minor, Dutton, April 2008, 32p. ISBN: 0-525-47947-3

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; Lib. ISBN: 0-375-93799-6 

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