Microhistories For Juveniles – Social Histories of Things, Events and People

1.
Paddle-to-the-Sea
Paddle-to-the-Sea 4.29 avg rating — 6,805 ratings
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 4.24 avg rating — 11,235 ratings
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Tree in the Trail
Tree in the Trail 4.15 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 3.83 avg rating — 4,661 ratings
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Cathedral: By the Author of The Way Things Work
Cathedral: By the Author of The Way Things Work 4.26 avg rating — 2,388 ratings
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The Story of Salt
The Story of Salt 4.16 avg rating — 516 ratings
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Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 3.84 avg rating — 2,042 ratings
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 4.07 avg rating — 6,210 ratings
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The Cod's Tale
The Cod's Tale 3.98 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom
by: Sue Macy
3.84 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai 4.23 avg rating — 789 ratings
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Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 3.67 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
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Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food
Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food 3.76 avg rating — 4,976 ratings
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The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing
The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing 3.84 avg rating — 341 ratings
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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World
The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World 3.34 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science
Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science 3.74 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Five Thousand Years of Slavery
Five Thousand Years of Slavery 4.11 avg rating — 61 ratings
18.
World Without Fish
World Without Fish 3.88 avg rating — 1,296 ratings
19.
Votes for Women
Votes for Women 3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World
Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World 4.07 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Trail Fever: The Life of a Texas Cowboy
Trail Fever: The Life of a Texas Cowboy 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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1816: The Year That Summer Never Came
1816: The Year That Summer Never Came 3.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Detective's Assistant
The Detective's Assistant 3.92 avg rating — 1,857 ratings
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The Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad
The Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad 4.04 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Yoko's Diary
Yoko's Diary
by: Paul Ham
3.94 avg rating — 353 ratings
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The Battle of the Somme / The Easter Rising
The Battle of the Somme / The Easter Rising it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf: The Complete Story
The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf: The Complete Story 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
19.
B. R. Ambedkar: A Life in Books
B. R. Ambedkar: A Life in Books it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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William Shakespeare and His Dramatic Acts
William Shakespeare and His Dramatic Acts 4.07 avg rating — 396 ratings
29.
Kids on Strike!
Kids on Strike! 3.81 avg rating — 292 ratings
29.
Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged!
Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged! 4.05 avg rating — 248 ratings
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The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird 4.16 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Minn of the Mississippi: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
Minn of the Mississippi: A Newbery Honor Award Winner 3.96 avg rating — 1,438 ratings
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Mission Control, This Is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon
Mission Control, This Is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon 4.13 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Trail Fever: The Life of a Texas Cowboy
Trail Fever: The Life of a Texas Cowboy 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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I Rule World (Balu Baldauf #1)
I Rule World (Balu Baldauf #1) 4.69 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind
Louis Braille: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind 4.08 avg rating — 815 ratings
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The Sinking Of The Lusitania
The Sinking Of The Lusitania liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea 4.31 avg rating — 6,894 ratings
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Savitribai: Journey of a Trailblazer
Savitribai: Journey of a Trailblazer 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Roman Britain
Roman Britain 3.37 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Seabird
Seabird 4.02 avg rating — 2,334 ratings
41.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller 4.22 avg rating — 812 ratings
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Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl
Puritan Girl, Mohawk Girl 3.40 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Soldier Boy
Soldier Boy 3.22 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Bhimayana
Bhimayana 4.30 avg rating — 806 ratings
47.
Dolls & Toys of Native America
Dolls & Toys of Native America 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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From Hand to Mouth, Or, How We Invented Knives, Forks, Spoons, and Chopsticks, and the Manners to Go With Them
From Hand to Mouth, Or, How We Invented Knives, Forks, Spoons, and Chopsticks, and the Manners to Go With Them 3.51 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Underground Reporters
The Underground Reporters 4.10 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books)
Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books) 4.20 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Bhimrao Ambedkar: The Boy Who Asked Why
Bhimrao Ambedkar: The Boy Who Asked Why 4.42 avg rating — 60 ratings
52.
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 3.64 avg rating — 7,096 ratings
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The Amazing Potato: A Story in Which the Incas, Conquistadors, Marie Antoinette, Thomas Jefferson, Wars, Famines, Immigrants, and French Fries All P
The Amazing Potato: A Story in Which the Incas, Conquistadors, Marie Antoinette, Thomas Jefferson, Wars, Famines, Immigrants, and French Fries All P 3.70 avg rating — 57 ratings
52.
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 4.17 avg rating — 5,448 ratings
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Strongbow: The Story of Richard & Aoife
Strongbow: The Story of Richard & Aoife 3.66 avg rating — 435 ratings
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We'Ve Got a Job to Do: Chicagoans and World War II
We'Ve Got a Job to Do: Chicagoans and World War II really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Branded by the Pink Triangle
Branded by the Pink Triangle 4.12 avg rating — 1,531 ratings
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Ariel Bradley: Spy for General Washington
Ariel Bradley: Spy for General Washington 3.73 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Technology: A Groundwork Guide (Groundwork Guides, 13)
Technology: A Groundwork Guide (Groundwork Guides, 13) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Fermat's Last Theorem
Fermat's Last Theorem 3.94 avg rating — 1,845 ratings
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Terry Fox: A Story of Hope
Terry Fox: A Story of Hope 4.27 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Children of the Tipi: Life in the Buffalo Days
Children of the Tipi: Life in the Buffalo Days 4.26 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Empire (Groundwork Guides, 2)
Empire (Groundwork Guides, 2) 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Dust Bowl Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster
The Dust Bowl Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster 4.18 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Comic Art Propaganda: A Graphic History
Comic Art Propaganda: A Graphic History 3.73 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Mr. Sam: How Sam Walton Built Walmart and Became America's Richest Man
Mr. Sam: How Sam Walton Built Walmart and Became America's Richest Man 3.68 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Oh, Rats! The Story of Rats and People
Oh, Rats! The Story of Rats and People 3.78 avg rating — 512 ratings
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Burn: The Life Story of Fire
Burn: The Life Story of Fire 2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Watch This Space: Designing, Defending and Sharing Public Spaces
Watch This Space: Designing, Defending and Sharing Public Spaces 3.64 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Story of Mother Jones
The Story of Mother Jones 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat
Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat 3.83 avg rating — 717 ratings