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- Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845–1850Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- BonesChristine Webster
- Come Back, Salmon: How a Group of Dedicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek and Brought it Back to LifeMolly Cone
- Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil RightsJim Haskins
- The Double Life of PocahontasJean Fritz
- Experiments with ElectricitySalvatore Tocci
- Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on EarthNicola Davies
- The First Americans: Prehistory–1600 (A History of US)*Joy Hakim
- For the Love of Chimps: The Jane Goodall StoryMartha E. Kendall
- The Frog ScientistPamela Turner
- Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's MicroscopeStephen Kramer
- If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther KingEllen Levine
- If You Lived with the Sioux IndiansAnn McGovern
- If You Lived When There Was Slavery in AmericaAnne Kamma
- John MuirKathryn Lasky
- Leonardo da VinciDiane Stanley
- Lewis and ClarkGeorge Sullivan
- Mandela: From the Life of the South African StatesmanFloyd Cooper
- The New Nation: 1789–1850 (A History of US)Joy Hakim
- Quest for the Tree KangarooSy Montgomery
- Rachel CarsonKathleen V. Kudlinski
- Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the WorldJane Yolen
- So You Want to Be An Inventor?Judith St. George
- Starry MessengerPeter Sis
- Thomas EdisonG. Sullivan
- We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League BaseballKadir Nelson
- What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?Jean Fritz
- Who Was Albert Einstein?Jess M. Brallier
- Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?Sydelle Kramer
*Common Core State Standards informational exemplar title