Category - Young Adult Nonfiction
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Tommy: The Gun That Changed America
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The fascinating and topical nonfiction story of how one gun changed American courtrooms, streets, and homes, told for a YA audience by award-winn...
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You Call This Democracy?: How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /A 2021 YALSA EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION FINALIST America is the greatest democracy in the world . . . isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines som...
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Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Nearly every day there's another news story or pop cultural anecdote related to feminism and women's rights. #YesAllWomen, conversations around c...
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You Call This Democracy?: How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A 2021 YALSA EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION FINALIST America is the greatest democracy in the world . . . isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines som...
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I Am a Secret Service Agent: My Life Spent Protecting the President
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Adapted from Within Arm’s Length for a young adult audience, a rare inside look at the Secret Service from an agent who protected Presidents Geor...
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Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Meet Lucy McRae and two other young people, Willie Lord and Frederick Grant, all survivors of the Civil War's Battle for Vicksburg. In 1863, Unio...
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Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /“Lively . . . Defiant . . . Pulling back the curtain on 100 years of struggle . . . The women who shaped the American narrative come to life with...
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Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /★ "Partridge proves once again that nonfiction can be every bit as dramatic as the best fiction."*America's war in Vietnam. In over a decade of b...
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Hanged!: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the critically acclaimed author of The Borden Murders comes the thrilling story of Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the US go...
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Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti & the End of the American Dream
HardcoverOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /From John Florio and Emmy Award-winning writer Ouisie Shapiro comes a monumental YA nonfiction book about the heartbreaking case of Sacco and Van...
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Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young readers the causes and curses that divided America into ...
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Hole in My Life
PaperbackOriginal price $10.99 - Original price $10.99Original price $10.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /From the Newbery Award–winning author of Dead End in Norvelt, this is a memoir about becoming a writer the hard way. A Printz Honor and Sibert Ho...
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Antebellum America, 1784-1850, Volume 4 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $43.20 - Original price $43.20Original price $43.20$56.99$56.99 - $56.99Current price $56.99| /The time between America's independence in 1783 and the year 1850 was an era of remarkable growth in territory and power for the new nation, as w...
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World War I: The Great War to End All Wars
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An interdisciplinary book for students ages 12 to 15 that delves into one of the most horrific periods in global history. An excellent roadmap for ...
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A Tide of Dreams: The Untold Backstory of Coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant and Coaches Carney Laslie and Frank Moseley
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /With the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, dreams of young men and women across the nation were sidelined while the country prepared for wa...
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I Could Not Do Otherwise: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Grateful American Book Prize Book of Honorable Mention As a teenager, Mary Edwards Walker determined she would no longer wear the confining corset...
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Crafting Change: Handmade Activism, Past and Present
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An informative and inspiring exploration of craftivism -- the intersection of handicraft and activism -- designed to encourage young creators while...
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Fighting in a World on Fire: The Next Generation's Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An argument for bold action to halt climate destruction, adapted for young people from Andreas Malm's best-selling book Young people are inheriting...
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From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentimen...
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
PaperbackOriginal price $10.99 - Original price $10.99Original price $10.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes--now in paperback will an all-new discussion guide. As the youngest marcher ...
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The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition): The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /This adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Case...
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Rad American History A-Z: Movements and Moments That Demonstrate the Power of the People
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the New York Times bestselling team behind Rad American Women A-Z comes an illustrated collection of radical and transformative political, soc...
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American Murderer: The Parasite That Haunted the South
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Included on NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" ListFinalist, 2023 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction ALSC Notable Children's Book What made workers i...
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In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years After the 9/11 Attacks
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistA graphic novel chronicling the immediate aftermath and rippling effects of one of the most impac...
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