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Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities

Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities

Kerrie Logan Hollihan
Nonfiction
For ages 9 and up
Chicago Review Press, 2012   ISBN: 978-1883052898
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Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman, Olympic High-Jump Champion

Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman, Olympic High-Jump Champion

Heather Lang
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 7 to 10
Boyds Mills Press, 2012   ISBN: 978-1590788509
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All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel

All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel

Dan Yaccarino
Picture Book
For ages 6 to 8
Random House, 2011   ISBN: 978-0375866425
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If You Traveled West In A Covered Wagon

If You Traveled West In A Covered Wagon

Ellen Levine
Illustrator:  Elroy Freem 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 7 to 9
Scholastic, 1992   ISBN: 0590451588
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Maggie’s Amerikay

Maggie’s Amerikay

Barbara Timberlake Russell
Illustrator:  Jim Burke 
Picture Book
For ages 7 to 10
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006   ISBN: 978-0374347222
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Dizzy

Dizzy

Jonah Winter
Illustrator:  Sean Qualls 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 4 to 8
Scholastic, 2006   ISBN: 978-0439507370
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Odetta: The Queen of Folk

Odetta: The Queen of Folk

Stephen Alcorn, Samantha Thornhill
Illustrator:  Stephen Alcorn 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 7 to 9
Scholastic Press, 2010   ISBN: 978-0439928182
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Write On, Mercy! The Secret Life of Mercy Otis Warren

Write On, Mercy! The Secret Life of Mercy Otis Warren

Gretchen Woelfle
Illustrator:  Alexandra Wallner 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 7 to 9
Boyds Mills Press, 2012   ISBN: 978-1590788226
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The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier de Saint-George

The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier de Saint-George

Hugh Brewster
Illustrator:  Eric Velasquez 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 8 to 12
Harry N. Abrams, 2006   ISBN: 0810957205
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Surviving the Hindenburg

Surviving the Hindenburg

Larry Verstraete
Illustrator:  David Geister 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 6 to 9
Sleeping Bear Press, 2012   ISBN: 978-1585367870
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P.K. Pinkerton and the Case of the Deadly Desperados

P.K. Pinkerton and the Case of the Deadly Desperados

Caroline Lawrence
Fiction
For ages 8 to 11
Penguin, 2012   ISBN: 978-0399256332
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Wild Women of the Wild West

Wild Women of the Wild West

Jonah Winter
Illustrator:  Susan Guevara 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 9 and up
Holiday House, 2011   ISBN: 978-0823416011
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Iceberg, Right Ahead! The Tragedy of the Titanic

Iceberg, Right Ahead! The Tragedy of the Titanic

Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Nonfiction
For ages 12 and up
Lerner, 2012   ISBN: 978-0761367567
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Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner

Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner

Monica Kulling
Illustrator:  Richard Walz 
Nonfiction
For ages 6 to 8
Random House Books for Young Readers, 2012   ISBN: 978-0375867255
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Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime

Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime

Gloria Spielman
Illustrator:  Manon Gauthier 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 6 to 8
Lerner, 2011   ISBN: 978-0761339625
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