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Experience daily life in the Middle Ages in this richly informative story of Camdenton Manor, where the household is frantically preparing a fancy feast for the visiting king and queen. We learn fascinating details about the feudal era鈥檚 fashion, farming, cooking, castles, serfs, jugglers, hawkers 鈥� and yes, it鈥檚 true, blackbirds actually flew out of pies.

Perfect for: Kids who like history.

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This inspiring biography of Harriet Tubman covers all 90 years of her heroic life. She鈥檚 rebellious as a plantation slave girl, finally escaping north to freedom. She later went south again and liberated 300 other slaves via the Underground Railroad, then became a Union spy during the Civil War. Includes vivid illustrations of her hair-raising adventures.

Perfect for: Kids who like to read about real people.

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Fannie Farmer is a kitchen servant in 1880s Massachusetts who prepares amazingly delicious meals for little Marcia Shaw鈥檚 family. How does she create these tasty miracles? Marcia convinces her to write down the 鈥渞ecipes鈥� 鈥� thus creating one of the world鈥檚 first cookbooks. Warm, witty, and whimsical with period etchings and engravings.

Perfect for: Kids who like to learn about colonial life.

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Althea is a hyperactive, high-spirited Harlem girl who is always in trouble, stealing stuff, and skipping 黄色app. When a neighbor recognizes her athletic skill and mentors her, the wild tomboy is transformed into a disciplined tennis champion. Jazzy prose and exuberant acrylics team up perfectly in this bio of a flawed, feisty heroine.

Perfect for: Kids who like to read about real people.

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Charlotte May Pierstorff wants to visit Grandma, but in 1914, a 75-mile train trip through the Idaho mountains is too expensive at $1.55. What to do? The pricey problem is ingeniously solved by “shipping” the 5-year-old in the railroad鈥檚 mailing car. Labeled as a 48.5-pound baby chick with a $0.55 cent stamp on her back, May makes the trip as a poultry package. Yes, it’s a true story. Warm, amusing, creatively designed, and historically informative.

Perfect for: Children tightly bonded with their grandparents.

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During the Great Depression, poverty forces Lydia Grace Finch’s family to send her to the city to stay with her grumpy Uncle Jim, a baker. In her suitcase she brings seeds and bulbs from her family鈥檚 farm, and the flowers she grows brighten Uncle Jim鈥檚 bakery 鈥� but not his mood. Lydia hopes that her secret project, a rooftop garden, will make Uncle Jim happy once and for all. The story is told through Lydia鈥檚 short letters, which express her appreciation for life, even during the toughest of times.

Perfect for: Kids who are optimistic or need to see optimism.

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Marianne is traveling west on an “Orphan Train” with 13 other children. (Under a policy introduced in the 1850s and continued into the 1900s, the trains carried orphaned and abandoned city children to the Midwest to live with farm families.) At every station, the other children are adopted, one by one, until only Marianne remains. At the final stop in Somewhere, Iowa, an elderly couple accepts her. Warm watercolors enhance this moving tale.

Perfect for: Kids who like historical fiction.

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Amelia Bloomer hated the painful clothes 鈥減roper women鈥� wore in the mid-1800s: steel corsets that caused suffocation and 40-pound dresses that dragged in the mud. To liberate ladies, her newspaper promoted comfortable 鈥渂loomers鈥� 鈥� baggy pantaloons with a short skirt. Chic illustrations complement this bio of an early feminist.

Perfect for: Kids who like historical fiction.

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Childhood polio and a horrific bus crash leave Frida Kahlo, the Mexican artist, with a broken, suffering body. Does she cry forever? No! She transforms her pain into playful paintings teeming with fantastic skeletons, jaguars, devils, and monkeys. Her courageous life is accurately portrayed in this richly emotional book, with poetic text, playful font, and surreal drawings. The book鈥檚 gritty theme, that inner strength can conquer all challenges, is ideal for young artists, little ones feeling under the weather, and complainers needing a pick-me-up.

Perfect for: Little ones who need a burst of inspiration.

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