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Joey Goes to Sea
by Alan Villiers
Joey was a ginger cat who really did go to sea with Alan Villiers on the ship Joseph Conrad.
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Topics
19th-Century History,
20th-Century History - Age Group Late Elementary: 4-6
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Mystic Maritime Graphics, 2005, Mystic, CT
John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
by Lasky, Kathryn
A picture-book sketch of naturalist John Muir focuses on Muir's special love of California's snowy Sierras and Yosemite Valley and his successes in founding Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Club.
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Topics
19th-Century History,
20th-Century History - Age Groups Early Elementary: K-3, Late Elementary: 4-6
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Candlewick, 2008, Somerville, MA
Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker, The
by Durbin, William
A young boys experience of working on the Transcontinental Railroad.
- Topic 19th-Century History
- Age Group Late Elementary: 4-6
- Book Type Fiction
- Award
- Publisher Scholastic, 1999, New York, NY
Julia Morgan Built a Castle
by Celeste Davidson Mannis
The life, education, and work of Julia Morgan, one of America's first female architects.
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Topics
Women's History,
19th-Century History,
20th-Century History - Age Groups Early Elementary: K-3, Late Elementary: 4-6, Middle School
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Viking, 2006, New York, NY
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln
by Jean Fritz
The story of the Gettysburg Address, illustrated with watercolors and archival photographs.
- Topic 19th-Century History
- Age Group
- Book Type Fiction
- Award
- Publisher Grossett & Dunlap, 1993, New York, NY
Award Key
- Caldecott Medal
- Most distinguished American picture book for children (annually).
- Newberry Medal
- Most distinguished contribution to American literature for children (annually).
- Coretta Scott King Award
- Distinguished books by authors and illustrators of African descent which promote an understanding and appreciation of the American dream (annually).
- Golden Kite Award
- Outstanding examples of text, illustration, fiction and nonfiction (four awards annually).
- Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
- Outstanding work of historical fiction published by a U.S. publisher set in the New World.
