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CLAUDETTE COLVIN: TWICE TOWARD JUSTICE

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Hoose
Author's First Name: 
Philip
Publisher: 
Melanie Kroupa
Publication Date: 
2009

Claudette Colvin, just a teenager in 1955, was the first African-American to refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus—an act of courage that changed her life and helped to change the world.

THE GREAT AND ONLY BARNUM: THE TREMENDOUS STUPENDOUS LIFE OF SHOWMAN P.T. BARNUM

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Fleming
Author's First Name: 
Candace
Publisher: 
Schwartz & Wade
Publication Date: 
2009

Legendary showman P.T. Barnum, master of the "humbug" and flamboyant hoax, comes to life in an eminently entertaining and fascinating biography filled with photographs, engravings, and period illustrations.

MR. LINCOLN'S HIGH TECH WAR: HOW THE NORTH USED THE TELEGRAPH, RAILROADS, SURVEILLANCE BALLOONS, IRONCLADS, HIGH-POWERED WEAPONS, AND MORE TO WIN THE CIVIL WAR

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Allen
Author's First Name: 
Thomas B.
Illustrator's First Name: 
Roger MacBride
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Allen
Publisher: 
National Geographic Society
Publication Date: 
2009

Photos, engravings, and lively text describe Abraham Lincoln’s enthusiasm for new technology and, chapter by chapter, how he used each invention and the concept of total war, to win America’s Civil War in the 1860s.

ELEANOR, QUIET NO MORE: THE LIFE OF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Rappaport
Author's First Name: 
Doreen
Illustrator's First Name: 
Gary
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Kelley
Publisher: 
Hyperion
Publication Date: 
2009

A quiet, lonely girl grows into a woman who finds her voice and uses it to benefit those who could not speak for themselves. Striking illustrations and a sparse text combined with quotations provide a portrait of the woman who became “First Lady to the World”.

BAD NEWS FOR OUTLAWS: THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF BASS REEVES, DEPUTY U. S. MARSHAL

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Author's Last Name: 
Nelson
Author's First Name: 
Vaunda Micheaux
Illustrator's First Name: 
R. Gregory
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Christie
Publisher: 
Carolrhoda Books
Publication Date: 
2009

Guns and outlaws may crowd the pages of this book, but the true story of a former slave, crack shot, and wily lawman is the stuff of legends. Text that reads like a tall tale and dramatic paintings provide an exciting picture of the life of an unsung hero of the American West.

WHAT BLUEBIRDS DO

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Kirby
Author's First Name: 
Pamela F.
Publisher: 
Boyds Mills
Publication Date: 
2009

Close-up photographs and a clear, simple text that is appropriate for newly independent readers chronicles one season in the life of a pair of Eastern Bluebirds and their five babies. Back matter includes information about attracting and supporting Bluebirds.

NEVER SMILE AT A MONKEY

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Jenkins
Author's First Name: 
Steve
Publisher: 
Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date: 
2009
2013 Nomination (not yet selected): 

Torn and cut paper collages and playful alliterative warnings (“Never bother a blue-ringed octopus”) introduce animals that use claws, teeth, spines and venom to protect themselves. Extra information will lure older readers.

Torn and cut paper collages and playful alliterative warnings introduce animals that use claws, teeth, spines and venom to protect themselves.  Extra information will lure older readers.

DOWN, DOWN, DOWN: A JOURNEY TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Jenkins
Author's First Name: 
Steve
Publisher: 
Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date: 
2009

Readers plunge the ocean’s surface to reach the darkness of nearly 36,000 feet and meet 50 sea creatures along the way. Cut-paper collages and surprising information offer a fascinating glimpse of this little-known part of the natural world.

LIFE IN THE BOREAL FOREST

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Guiberson
Author's First Name: 
Brenda
Illustrator's First Name: 
Gennady
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Spirin
Publisher: 
Holt
Publication Date: 
2009

Exquisitely detailed and stunningly realistic illustrations combine with a lyrical text to capture the complexity of life within this unique, yet diminishing, ecosystem, whose resources are threatened by ever encroaching human development.

MOONSHOT: THE FLIGHT OF APOLLO 11

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Floca
Author's First Name: 
Brian
Publisher: 
Atheneum
Publication Date: 
2009

Spare text and stunning watercolors in an oversized format convey the extraordinary effort it took to send men to the moon. The familiar moon in Earth's sky frames a story that contrasts the cramped interior of the rockets with the vastness of space.

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