Books like Fever 1793
12 books with a reading profile close to Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
The story centers on the Watsons, a Black family living in Flint, Michigan.
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2
Refugee
by Alan Gratz
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Three children, in three different decades, are forced to flee their homes.
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The Blind Side
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Michael Lewis details the evolution of the left tackle position in American football, triggered by the rising impact of speed-rushing linebackers like Lawrence Taylor.
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The Astronaut Wives Club
by Lily Koppel
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Lily Koppel chronicles the lives of the women married to flight crews in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs.
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Set in Italy during the final years of World War II, the story follows Pino Lella, a teenager who becomes an underground operative helping Jews escape across the Alps.
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Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Elizabeth Keckley, a formerly enslaved woman who bought her freedom through her needlework, establishes a successful business in Washington, D.C., and becomes the personal confidante and modiste to Mary Todd Lincoln.
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The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Sharon McMahon, a former high school government teacher, profiles twelve lesser-known Americans whose choices, often made quietly, changed the country, from the founding era through the civil rights movement.
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The Innocent Man
by John Grisham
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Ron Williamson was a former minor league baseball player who spiraled into mental illness and addiction before being arrested for the 1982 murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada, Oklahoma.
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Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Maureen Callahan tells the stories of several women connected to the Kennedy family and argues that they were treated badly by the men around them and by the family's image-making.
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America's First Daughter
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph serves as the primary protector of Thomas Jefferson’s reputation and household throughout this narrative.
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The First Ladies
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
This historical novel centers on the real-world partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune.
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A Single Shard
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In twelfth-century Korea, an orphan named Tree-ear lives under a bridge in Ch’ulp’o, scavenging for food alongside his disabled protector, Crane-man.
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