Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower 

By Greg Pizzoli

Viking Books for Young Readers

Robert Miller was a con artist.  In 1900, he moved Paris, France, to practice his trade.  Using the alias “Count Victor Lustig” he sold the Eiffel Tower twice.

In Mary’s Garden 

By Tina Kugler  (Author, Illustrator), Carson Kulger (Author, Illustrator)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers

Wisconsin artist Mary Nohl made art out of anything she liked and turned common things into unusual art.  Her garden became her art gallery.

John Muir Wrestles a Waterfall

By Julie Danneberg (Author), Jamie Hogan (Illustrator)

Charlesbridge

One night while living at the base of Yosemite Falls in California, John Muir ventured up the trail from his cabin and almost lost his life while exploring the waterfall.

Black Elk’s Vision: A Lakota Story 

By S. D. Nelson

Abrams Books for Young Readers

Black Elk, a unique historical figure and Oglala Lakota medicine man, was involved in the battles of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee and journeyed to New York City and Europe with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.

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