Further Reading Book List for People Who Changed the World
Informational Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
Environmental Activists
- Emi and the Rhino Scientist by Mary Kay Carson (910L)
- Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service by Annette Bay Pimentel (940L)
- One Earth: People of Color Protecting our Planet by Anuradha Rao (1050L)
- One Plastic Bag by Miranda Paul (570L)
- Our House is on Fire: Greta Thunberg’s Call to Save the Planet by Jeanette Winter (680L)
- Rachel Carson and Her Book that Changed the World by Laurie Lawlor (890L)
- Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist by Jess Keating
- The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever by H. Joseph Hopkins (760L)
Inventors and Scientists
- Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet (1000L)
- Counting on Catherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker (710L)
- Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit up the World by Elizabeth Rusch (840L)
- The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath by Julia Finley Mosca (530L)
- The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague by Julia Finley Mosca (460L)
- The House that Cleaned Itself: The True Story of Frances Gabe’s (Mostly) Marvelous Invention by Susan Romberg (760L)
- The Right Word by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet (590L)
- Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
Social Activists and Politicians
- Enough! 20 Protestors who Changed America by Emily Easton (450L)
- Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
- No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History by Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, Jeanette Bradly
- Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Dee Romito (890L)
- She Was the First! by Katheryn Russell-Brown and illustrated by Eric Velasquez
- Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson (680L)
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