Phillip M. Hoose - We Were There, Too: Young People in Us History

Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history, including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and civil rights workers.

Nina Bernstein - The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care

Through a long study of several principles in a landmark court decision, a journalist exposes the gulag of New York's foster care system. The author examines the lost lives that were caught up in the ...

James Carroll - An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us

Joe Carroll was an Air Force lieutenant general who chose Vietnamese targets for American bombs. Joe's son James began adulthood by fulfilling his father's abandoned dream of joining the priesthood. ...

Robert Wohl - The Generation of 1914