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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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The Worst Hard Time

By Timothy Egan ,

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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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Fast Food Nation

By Eric Schlosser ,

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Farewell to Manzanar
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Farewell to Manzanar

By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston , James D. Houston (illustrator) ,

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The Diviners
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The Diviners

By Libba Bray ,

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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
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The Big Burn

By Timothy Egan ,

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Bomb: The Race to Build--And Steal--The World's Most Dangerous Weapon
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Bomb

By Steve Sheinkin ,

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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
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Claudette Colvin

By Phillip Hoose ,

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Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
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Manhunt

By James L Swanson ,

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On the Horizon
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On the Horizon

By Lois Lowry , Kenard Pak (illustrator) ,

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Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
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Revolutionaries

By Jack N. Rakove ,

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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl

By Daniel Stashower ,

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Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
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Triumph

By Jeremy Schaap ,

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The Middle Passage: White Ships / Black Cargo
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The Middle Passage

By Tom Feelings ,

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The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
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The Deviant's War

By Eric Cervini ,

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Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
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Here in Harlem

By Walter Dean Myers ,

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Into the Mist: Tales of Death and Disaster, Mishaps and Misdeeds, Misfortune and Mayhem in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Into the Mist

By David Brill ,

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Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away
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Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge

By Erica Armstrong Dunbar , Kathleen Van Cleve ,

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When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration During WWII
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When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration During WWII

By Susan H. Kamei ,

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Grover Cleveland, Again!: A Treasury of American Presidents
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Grover Cleveland, Again!

By Ken Burns , Gerald Kelley (illustrator) ,

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We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
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We've Got a Job

By Cynthia Levinson ,

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The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas
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The Sea-Ringed World

By Maria Garcia Esperon , Amanda Mijangos (illustrator) , David Bowles (translator)

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Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-The-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford
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Write It When I'm Gone

By Thomas M. DeFrank ,

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The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America
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The Invention of Air

By Steven Johnson ,

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How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
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How They Croaked

By Georgia Bragg , Kevin O'Malley (illustrator) ,

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Orthodox Christians in America: A Short History
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Orthodox Christians in America

By John H. Erickson ,

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Looking Like the Enemy
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Looking Like the Enemy

By Mary Matusda Gruenewald ,

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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
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The Port Chicago 50

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Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
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Freedom's Children

By Ellen S. Levine ,

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The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence
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The Signers

By Dennis Brindell Fradin , Michael McCurdy (illustrator) ,

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The Founders: The 39 Stories Behind the U.S. Constitution
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The Founders

By Dennis Brindell Fradin , Michael McCurdy (illustrator) ,

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American Murderer: The Parasite that Haunted the South
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American Murderer

By Gail Jarrow ,

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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
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Close to Shore

By Michael Capuzzo ,

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed the World
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

By Penny Colman ,

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Undefeated
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Undefeated

By Steve Sheinkin ,

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