united states

"In 'The Small and the Mighty,' Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn't make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. Through meticulous research, she discovers history's unsung characters and brings their rich, riveting stories to light for the first time. You'll meet a woman astride a white horse riding down Pennsylvania Ave, a young boy detained at a Japanese incarceration camp, a formerly enslaved woman on a mission to reunite with her daughter, a poet on a train, and a teacher who learns to work with her enemies"--Publisher's website.

"A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II"--Provided by publisher.

"A picture book biography about Ida B. Wells and her life as a suffragist, with a focus on the Women's March of 1913"--Provided by publisher.

"Since the founding of the United States, wars have shaped the nation's history. This title explores the major conflicts in which the US military has been involved, examining the causes of these wars, how they were fought, and what their results were"--Provided by publisher.

In 1955, Calvin's family relocates from Chicago to the all-white suburbs of Levittown, Pennsylvania, where they must pass for white to survive, but when Calvin begins to uncover dark secrets about the town and its inhabitants, he puts his family and their new home at risk.

"A gay Jewish man has just been elected president of the United States--or so it seems, until the governor of Kansas decides that some election results in his state are invalid and awards crucial votes to the other candidate, his fellow party member. Things quickly go very wrong--and hundreds of thousands of people flock to Kansas to protest for what they believe is right and just. Among them are Jimmy and Duncan, teens who are not only fighting for the future of their country but for the future of their relationship, too"--Provided by publisher.

An interactive Revolutionary War adventure where the reader is cornered by the British and their plot choices determine whether they make it out alive.

"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--Provided by publisher.

"An illustrated tour of the US, highlighting the diversity of American lives through the stories of fifty real children, one from each of the fifty states, along with maps, demographic research and additional back matter"--.

Before meeting Huckleberry Finn, Mary Jane faces deadly illness, treacherous landowners, and swindlers as she goes on her own thrilling journey down the Mississippi in pre-Civil War America.