Books like The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
By Mordicai Gerstein
For the kid who stares up at tall buildings and wonders what it would feel like to be that high, this book puts them right on the wire. Hushed, soaring, and quietly breathtaking, with a sense of wonder that builds toward genuine vertigo.
After the gods fail again and again to create lasting humans across five different suns, Quetzalcóatl the Feathered Serpent alone refuses to give up, journeying to the underworld to retrieve the sacred bones of creation.
A knight known as the Red Cross Knight sets out with a princess to face a dragon that has terrorized the countryside for years, in a battle that will decide the land's fate.
A determined mountaineer dreams of climbing despite being told no by men, sponsors, and gear made only for men's hands — so she leads an all-women team up Everest, battling avalanches and icy crevasses along the way.
An engineer and an explorer climb into a hollow metal ball they invented called the Bathysphere, risking leaks and explosions to dive deeper into the ocean than anyone has gone before.
A Victorian artist named Waterhouse Hawkins sets out to show the world what dinosaurs looked like by building the first life-size dinosaur models, first in England, then in New York City.
A folk hero grows so fast he bursts through the porch roof, then grows into a legend — swinging two sledgehammers to build roads and racing a steam drill through a mountain.
A restless chicken named Louise leaves the henhouse craving adventure, facing pirates on the high seas, a lion under the big top, and a mysterious stranger in a bustling bazaar.
A young girl rides the Silver Meteor train north during the Great Migration, watching cotton fields give way to city lights, and telling her journey stop by stop in poems.
Two sisters wake before sunrise six days a week to practice tennis, pushing through boos and taunts from a sport that didn't expect them, on their way to becoming legends.
A mysterious young stranger begs King Arthur to let him work in the castle kitchen, hiding his noble blood until Sir Lancelot knights him and he sets off to rescue a princess from the fearsome Red Knight of the Plain.
A fearless young woman falls in love with flying after her first airplane ride, then defies people who scoff at her dreams to become a pilot with the Women Airforce Service Pilots during World War II.
A brilliant astronomer turns his telescope to the night sky and discovers that the earth circles the sun — a truth so radical it puts him at odds with the powerful people of his time.
