10 True Tales: Heroes of 9/11 (Ten True Tales) Paperback 

By Allan Zullo

Published by Scholastic Nonfiction

Allan Zullo’s book contains ten true stories of true American heroes on the day that changed America, September 11, 2001.

 

 

The Wild Life of Jane Goodall Hardcover

By Anita Silvery with a Foreword from Jane Goodall

Published by National Geographic Children’s Books

Silvey’s book tells the story of Goodall’s fascination with animals when she was growing up and her ground breaking research with chimpanzees in Africa.  Goodall’s forward to the book is a “call to action” for readers to do their part to preserve or world and the animals in it.

 

Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent 

By Pearl Witherington Cornioley

Published by Chicago Review Press

Cornioley was one of the most celebrated female resistance fighters of World War II.  In her autobiography she shares her remarkable story of working with the British Special Operations Executive (SEO).

 

 

 The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams

By Tanya Lee Stone and Illustrated by Kathryn Brown

Published by Henry Holt and Co.

This is a moving story of Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  Addams turned her house into a community center which help transform a poor neighborhood in Chicago.

 Happy Reading!