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The Buffalo Are Back
by George, Jean Craighead
This picture book is a hybrid of nonfiction and fiction, as George tells the story of how the buffalo made a comeback in the American Midwest after being nearly decimated in the late 1800s.
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Topics
19th-Century History,
20th-Century History - Age Groups Early Elementary: K-3, Late Elementary: 4-6
- Book Type Fiction
- Award
- Publisher Dutton Children's Books, 2010, New York, NY
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
by Gerstein, Mordicai
A lyrical story of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers
- Topic 20th-Century History
- Age Groups Early Elementary: K-3, Late Elementary: 4-6
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award Caldecott Medal
- Publisher Roaring Book Press, 2003, New Milford, CT
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
by Gerstein, Mordicai
A lyrical evocation of Phillippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
- Topic 20th-Century History
- Age Groups Preschool, Early Elementary: K-3, Late Elementary: 4-6, Middle School
- Book Type Fiction
- Award Caldecott Medal
- Publisher Roaring Brook Press, 2003, Brookfield, CT
Benjamin Banneker: Pioneering Scientist
by Ginger Wadsworth
An introduction to a free black man who contributed to science in the eighteenth century.
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Topics
African American History,
18th-Century History - Age Group Early Elementary: K-3
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Carolrhoda Books, Inc., 2003, New York, NY
Shimmy, Shimmy, Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems
by Giovanni, Nikki, ed.
An anthology of poetry from the Harlem Renaissance.
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Topics
African American History,
20th-Century History - Age Groups Middle School, High School
- Book Type Fiction
- Award
- Publisher Henry Holt, 1996, 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.
