Books like Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book
By Keila V. Dawson
For the kid who wants to know how one determined person can change life for millions, this is a real story about a man who built a solution with his own two hands. Hopeful, historical, and steady — a quiet kind of courage.
A champion Italian cyclist who won the 1938 Tour de France secretly uses his bicycle and racing fame to help save Jewish lives during World War II, risking everything without ever telling a soul.
A costumed superhero girl and her Bug Squad friends volunteer at a dog-adoption fair, doing small jobs like brushing and feeding dogs until Lulu dreams up a plan to help every one of them find a home.
In a real Harlem neighborhood, a girl named Nevaeh calls an abandoned lot the haunted garden, until a caring man invites the local kids to transform it into a thriving farm.
The true story of a boy born to formerly enslaved parents who reads the newspaper aloud to his father every day, then carries that hunger for knowledge into the coal mines and beyond, eventually transforming how the world understands Black history.
A retired New York City fireboat, once the fastest and shiniest of its time, is rescued from the scrap heap by a group of friends — then called back into action on September 11, 2001.
In a busy city where everyone rushes past, a boy named Will notices an injured bird on the ground and, with his mother's help, gently carries it home to care for it.
A brightly painted chiva bus climbs and winds through the rugged Andes mountains, carrying its passengers and the spirit of Colombian community along every bend.
A young boy travels before dawn with his family to Granny's farm for their annual reunion, where every child must find their own way to honor the family's history — but Lil Alan isn't sure what he'll bring.
A country cottontail raising twenty-one children dreams of becoming an Easter Bunny, and when the wise Grandfather Bunny notices how capably she runs her big household, he chooses her for the job.
A young girl is separated from her mother at the last moment and must sail to America alone, only to discover the address for her family in New York has smudged into illegible ink.
Across generations, the women in one family pass down the art of quilting — from a seven-year-old girl sold away from her parents who sewed secret maps to freedom, to daughters who carried her knowledge through segregation and into the fight for literacy.
A true portrait of an enslaved man in 1800s South Carolina who became a master potter, shaping massive clay jars and carving his own poetry into them despite the world telling him he had no voice.
