Books written by Doreen Rappaport

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  Wilma's Way Home: The Life of Wilma Mankiller

  This beautiful addition to the Big Words series will inspire future leaders to persevere in empathy and thoughtful problem-solving, reaching beyond themselves to help those around them.

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  United No More!: Stories of the Civil War

  Discusses many aspects of the great and terrible Civil War.

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  Boston Coffee Party

  Boston Coffee Party

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  Helen's Big World (A Big Words Biography): The Life of Helen Keller

  " -Booklist, starred review * "Concisely written and yet poetic, this is a first purchase for every library." -School Library Journal, starred review

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  Lady Liberty: Candlewick Biographies: A Biography

  Doreen Rappaport’s historically accurate, poetic vignettes and Matt Tavares’s magnificent images remind us of the true origins of a national symbol — and show that it took a lot of people to make the Lady.

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  Escape from Slavery

  Escape from Slavery

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  Escape from Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom

  Five accounts of black slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil War.

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  Escape from Slavery

  Five accounts of black slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil War.

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  The Secret Seder

  For this book, Doreen Rappaport researched the lives of resistance fighters and Jews in hiding: brave men and women who managed to survive one of the darkest times in history with their faith intact.

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  Tinker Vs. Des Moines

  In 1965, school officials in Des Moines, Iowa, banned the wearing of black arm bands by students mourning the dead in the Vietnam War.

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  Tinker Vs. Des Moines: Be the Judge Be the Jury

  Using edited transcripts of testimony, recreates the trial of John Tinker and two other students who were suspended from school for protesting the Vietnam War, and invites the reader to act as judge and jury.

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  The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-S̈a

  Taken from her family on the Yankton Sioux Reservation at the age of eight and sent to a school far from home, Gertrude is forced to become "civilized"--to give up...

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  Freedom River

  Freedom River

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  Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement

  This final installment in the powerful nonfiction trilogy about the African-American experience introduces readers to the people, armed with the songs and strength passed down from their ancestors, who profoundly impacted the American civil ...