8 NonFiction Text Sets
September 11
Picture Books
14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy
Saved by the Boats by Julie Gassman
Fireboat by Maira Kalman
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
- News Broadcast - video 3 mins
- Time Magazine Article
- Biography: Philippe Petit
Seven and a Half Tons of Steel by Janet Nolan
Websites:
History.com Facts, Timeline and videos
Article:
Britannica: September 11 Attacks
Storycorps:
Personal story of a victim - Audio
Images:
- When the President was told
- The Buildings As It Happened
- Running from the Falling Towers
- The Rubble and Rescuers
Video:
The 9/11 Terrorists Attacks 2 mins
Touring the Remains of the Towers 2 mins
The 9/11 Memorial 2 mins
american revolution
Gingerbread for Liberty by Mara Rockliff
Long May She Wave by Kristen Fulton
George Did It by Suzanne Jurmain
George Washington's Teeth by Deborah Chandra
Now and Ben by Gene Barretta
environmental pioneers
Picture Books - Recycling
Ada's Violin by Susan Hood
One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul
Websites recycling
Videos recycling
Technology Behind Recycling Garbage 5 mins
Making Marbles from Recycled Glass 2:44 mins
Plastic Bags Into New Roads 6 mins
Picturebooks - Exploring Nature
The Boy Who Drew Birds by Jacqueline Davies
The Watcher by Jeanette Winter
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Martin
Wangari Maathai by Franck Prevot
Manfish by Jennifer Berne
Civil Rights movement
Picture Books
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
Rosa's Bus by Jo S. Kittinger
Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles
Sit In by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Boycott Blues by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
Be a King by Carol Boston Weatherford
Martin's Dream Day by Kitty Kelley
Preaching to the Chickens by Jabari Asim
Henry Aaron's Dream by Matt Tavares
We March by Shane Evans
Martin and Mahalia by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Pies from Nowhere by Dee Romito
Civil Rights in Other Countries
The Right to Learn by Rebecca Langston-George
Grandfather Gandhi by Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus
Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson
Pies from Nowhere by Dee Romito
Slavery
Picture Books
Frederick Douglas by Walter Dean Myers
Dave the Potter by Laban Carrick Hill
Moses by Carole Weatherford
Before She Was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Brick by Brick by Charles Smith
Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
Only Passing Through by Anne Rockwell
The Journey of York by Hasan Davis and Alleanna Harris
The Holocaust
Picture Books
Jars of Hope by Jennifer Roy
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
The Numbers on My Grandfather's Arm by David Adler
Anne Frank by Josephine Poole
Child of the Warsaw Ghetto by David Adler
I Will Come Back for You by Marisabina Russo
MUSIC
Picture Books - Jazz
Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews
Dizzy by Jonah Winter
Duke Ellington by Davis Pinkney
Ella Fitzgerald by Andrea David Pinkney
Jazz by Walter Dean Myers
Before John Was a Jazz Giant by Carole Boston Weatherford
Picture Books - The Beatles
The Beatles Were Fab by Kathleen Krull
John's Secret Dreams by Doreen Rappaport
Websites
History.com - Beatlemania Sweeps the United States
Videos
New York Greets the Beatles 1 min
The British Pop Explosion 1 min
Love Me Do 44 secs
Song Lyrics/Album Covers
groundbreaking women
Eleanor Roosevelt - Picture Books
Eleanor: Quiet No More by Doreen Rappaport
Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride by Pam Munoz Ryan
Hot Dog! Eleanor Roosevelt Throws a Picnic by Leslie Kimmelman
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Picturebooks
I Dissent by Debbie Levy
Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Johan Winter
Fighting for's Rights
Brave Girl by Melissa Sweet
Helen's Big World by Doreen Rappaport
The Right to Learn by Rebecca Langston-George
What About Alice by by Barbara Kerley and Edwin Fotheringham
Mama Went to Jail for the Vote by Kathleen Karr
Going to the Moon
Picture Books
Moonshot by Brian Floca
One Giant Leap: First Moon Landing by Robert Burleigh
One Giant Leap: Neil Armstrong by Don Brown
Reaching the Moon by Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin: Look to the Stars by Buzz Aldrin and Wendell Minor
Margaret and the Moon by Dean Robbins
Astronaut Who Painted the Moon by Dean Robbins/Sean Rubin
sports
Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull
Jesse Owens Fastest Man Alive by Carole Boston Weatherford
Float by Ntozake Shange
A Nation's Hope by Matt de la Pena
The Girl Who Ran by Frances Poletti and Kristina Yee
innovators in science
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science by Diane Stanley
The Boy Who Invented TV by Kathleen Krull
Star Stuff by Stephanie Roth Sisson
Neo Leo by Gene Barretta
Twenty-One Elephants by April Jones Prince
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Grace Hopper Queen of Computer Code by Laurie Wallmark
Lighter Than Air by Matthew Clark Smith and Matt Tavares
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel by Kathryn Gibbs Davis/Gilbert Ford
Artists
Picture Books
Hanging Off Jefferson's Nose by Tina Nichols Coury
Julia, Child by Kyo Maclear
A Splash of Red by Jen Bryant
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Martin
Radiant Child by Javaka Steptoe