Browse Books: Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / 20th Century

Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover) By Angela Joy, Janelle Washington (Illustrator) $19.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Sew Sister: The Untold Story of Jean Wright and NASA's Seamstresses (Hardcover) By Elise Matich $18.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? (Who Was?) (Paperback) By Sherri L. Smith, Who HQ, Jake Murray (Illustrator) $5.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
True Rescue: The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue (True Rescue Series) (Paperback) By Michael J. Tougias, Mark Edward Geyer (Illustrator), Casey Sherman $6.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Saving Earth: Climate Change and the Fight for Our Future (Hardcover) By Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Nathaniel Rich (Introduction by), Tim Foley (Illustrator) $19.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Dangerous Jane: ?The Life and Times of Jane Addams, Crusader for Peace (Paperback) By Suzanne Slade, Alice Ratterree (Illustrator) $8.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade (Hardcover) By Melissa Sweet, Melissa Sweet (Illustrator) $17.99 Add to Wish List No new copies on our shelves but maybe in used, now or arriving soon. Ask us.	Farewell to Manzanar (Paperback) By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston (Illustrator), James D. Houston $10.99 Add to Wish List Coming Soon: available for pre-order now	H Is for Harlem (Hardcover) By Dinah Johnson, April Harrison (Illustrator) $18.99 Add to Wish List No new copies on our shelves but maybe in used, now or arriving soon. Ask us.
Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker (Hardcover) By Patricia Hruby Powell, R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator) $18.99 Add to Wish List No new copies on our shelves but maybe in used, now or arriving soon. Ask us.	Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation (Hardcover) By Duncan Tonatiuh $19.99 Add to Wish List No new copies on our shelves but maybe in used, now or arriving soon. Ask us.	The Teachers March!: How Selma's Teachers Changed History (Hardcover) By Sandra Neil Wallace, Rich Wallace, Charly Palmer (Illustrator) $18.99 Add to Wish List No new copies on our shelves but maybe in used, now or arriving soon. Ask us.

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