CCBC ChoicesHistorical People, Places, and Events

Given by Cooperative Children’s Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison (CCBC)

Other Names: Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice Award, Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice Book
94 Works 22,169 Books 1,512 Reviews 4.3
CCBC CHOICES is an annual list of recommended books for children and young adults selected by the librarians at the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, a library of the School of Education at show more the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

[1987-2015: category designations not yet entered]
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Categories:
All, ? (2), Activities (37), Activities, 1983; Activities, 1984 (1), Biography (21), Biography and Autobiography (16), Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir (31), Books for Babies (9), Books for Beginning Readers (20), Books for Newly Independent (3), Books for Newly Independent Readers (15), Books for Newly Independent Readerssurely (1), Books for the Youngest (96), Concept Books (59), Contemporary People, Places, and Events (14), Contemporary People, Places, and Issues (17), English / Canada (1), Exceptional Children (5), Fiction for Children (204), Fiction for Middle Readers (48), Fiction for Older Children (12), Fiction for Older Readers (63), Fiction for Older Readers, 1980, New Editions, 1983 (1), Fiction for Teenagers (42), Fiction for Young Adults (173), Fiction for Young Readers (22), Fiction for Younger Readers (25), Fiction for the Younger Reader (14), Folklore (45), Folklore, Mythology and Traditional Literature (23), Folklore, Mythology, and Traditional Literature (6), Historical People, Places, and Events (94), Historical People, Places, and Events, 2016; The Arts, 2016 (1), History, People and Places (127), History, People and Places, 1984; History, People and Places, 1985 (1), Issues in Today's World (23), New Editions (17), Noteworthy New Editions of Classic Novels (2), Picture Books (164), Picture Books for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers (101), Picture Books for Babies, Toddles, and Preschoolers (2), Picture Books for School-Age Children (102), Picture Books for School–Age Children (29), Picture Books for School–Age Children, 2017 (1), Picture Books for Young Children (85), Picture Books, 1984; Picture Books, 1985 (1), Poetry (71), Recursively added (1), Recursively included (2), Science, Technology and the Natural World (12), Science, Technology, and the Natural World (63), Seasons and Celebrations (60), Seasons and Celebrations, 1980; New Editions, 1985; 2005 (1), Technology (4), The Arts (74), The Natural World (68), Understanding Oneself and Others (54), No Category (7,091)
Years:
All, 2024 (11), 2023 (12), 2022 (19), 2017 (28), , 2016 (24)
Announced:
January 18: 2024 Recent
WorkYear
Glitter Everywhere!: Where it Came From, Where It's Found & Where It's Going by Chris Barton
2024
To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights by Angela Dalton
2024
The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day
2024
Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion: A True Story by Dave Eggers
2024
Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II (Scholastic Focus) by Deborah Hopkinson
2024
Yukie's Island: My Family's World War II Story by Yukie Kimura
2024
Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany by Steve Sheinkin
2024
Gertie, the Darling Duck of WWII by Shari Swanson
2024
Paul Bunyan: The Invention of an American Legend by Noah Van Sciver
2024
How Do You Spell Unfair? MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Carole Boston Weatherford
2024
More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by Yohuru Williams
2024
The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile by Neal Bascomb
2023
Seeking Freedom: The Untold Story of Fortress Monroe and the Ending of Slavery in America by Selene Castrovilla
2023
Of Walden Pond: Henry David Thoreau, Frederic Tudor, and the Pond Between by Lesa Cline-Ransome
2023
Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime by Candace Fleming
2023
A Bear Far from Home by Susan Fletcher
2023
Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood
2023
American Murderer: The Parasite that Haunted the South (Medical Fiascoes) by Gail Jarrow
2023
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy
2023
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge
2023
The Sweetest Scoop: Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Revolution by Lisa Robinson
2023
The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs by Chana Stiefel
2023
Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
2023
I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story by Martha Brockenbrough
2022
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert
2022
Survivor Tree by Marcie Colleen
2022
The Story of Bodri by Hedi Fried
2022
Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield by Gail Jarrow
2022
When can we go back to America? : voices of Japanese American incarceration during World War II by Susan H Kamei
2022
Why Longfellow Lied: The Truth About Paul Revere's Midnight Ride by Jeff Lantos
2022
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
2022
Crazy Horse and Custer: Born Enemies by S.D. Nelson
2022
The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem by Colleen Paeff
2022
Try It!: How Frieda Caplan Changed the Way We Eat by Mara Rockliff
2022
Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World's First Female Rabbi by Sigal Samuel
2022
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown by Steve Sheinkin
2022
Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge by Ray Anthony Shepard
2022
Kate's Light: Kate Walker at Robbins Reef Lighthouse by Elizabeth Spires
2022
Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men by Sandra Neil Wallace
2022
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
2022
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo
2022
The People Remember by Ibi Zoboi
2022
Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis by Jabari Asim
2017
Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science by Jeannine Atkins
2017
Sabotage: The Mission to Destroy Hitler's Atomic Bomb [YA] by Neal Bascomb
2017
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
2017
The Secret Subway by Shana Corey
2017
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives by Kenneth C. Davis
2017
I Am Not a Number by Dr. Jenny Kay Dupuis
2017
Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words by Margarita Engle
2017
Vietnam: A History of the War by Russell Freedman
2017
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman
2017
Doing Her Bit: A Story About the Woman's Land Army of America by Erin Hagar
2017
Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America by Gail Jarrow
2017
On Our Way to Oyster Bay: Mother Jones and Her March for Children's Rights by Monica Kulling
2017
Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine by Heather Lang
2017
March: Book Three by John Lewis
2017
Irena's Children: Young Readers Edition; A True Story of Courage by Tilar J. Mazzeo
2017
The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero by Patricia McCormick
2017
The Hole Story of the Doughnut by Pat Miller
2017
The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller
2017
This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration by Linda Barrett Osborne
2017
The Stone Thrower by Jael Ealey Richardson
2017
Two Friends : Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass by Dean Robbins
2017
Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles by Mara Rockliff
2017
Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice by Susan Goldman Rubin
2017
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story by Caren Stelson
2017
Will's Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk by Jane Sutcliffe
2017
Crossing Niagara: The Death-Defying Tightrope Adventures of the Great Blondin by Matt Tavares
2017
Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford
2017
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson
2016
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
2016
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton
2016
Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights by Ann Bausum
2016
Tommy: The Gun That Changed America by Karen Blumenthal
2016
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
2016
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans by Don Brown
2016
Freedom's School by Lesa Cline-Ransome
2016
Game Changer: John Mclendon and the Secret Game (Carolrhoda Picture Books) by John Coy
2016
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts by Nikki Grimes
2016
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose
2016
Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary by Gail Jarrow
2016
March: Book Two by John Lewis
2016
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
2016
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick
2016
Earmuffs for Everyone!: How Chester Greenwood Became Known as the Inventor of Earmuffs by Meghan McCarthy
2016
Queen of the Diamond: The Lizzie Murphy Story by Emily Arnold McCully
2016
Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever by Jim Murphy
2016
Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People by S.D. Nelson
2016
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem's Greatest Bookstore by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
2016
Hiawatha and the Peacemaker by Robbie Robertson
2016
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin
2016
Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh by Sally M. Walker
2016
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
2016

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