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Military/Veteran Heroes: Books for Young People

These award-winning titles by authors and illustrators from diverse backgrounds will help support your teaching about veterans protecting, serving, and honoring our nation. This collection includes stories that highlight U.S military heroes and stories. Contact us for additional suggestions at quotes@leeandlow.com.

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Jim Thorpe's Bright Path

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The Harvey Milk Story

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Wat Takes His Shot

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Joe Louis, My Champion

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Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds

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The Story of Olympic Diver Sammy Lee

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Game, Set, Match Champion Arthur Ashe

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The Story of Tennis Champion Arthur Ashe

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The Story of All-Star Athlete Jim Thorpe

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Quiet Hero

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The Story of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls

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Seven Miles to Freedom

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Heroes

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The Sky We Shared

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Poems in the Attic

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The School the Aztec Eagles Built

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Amazing Faces

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Amazing Faces
By Lee Bennett Hopkins, Chris Soentpiet
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Amazing Faces
By Lee Bennett Hopkins, Chris Soentpiet
An anthology of universal poems focusing on the human experience--emotions, perceptions, and understandings--as expressed by poets of diverse heritage and reflected in illustrations featuring people of all ages and backgrounds.

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Game, Set, Match Champion Arthur Ashe
By Crystal Hubbard, Kevin Belford
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Game, Set, Match Champion Arthur Ashe
By Crystal Hubbard, Kevin Belford
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A picture book biography of tennis player Arthur Ashe, who began his career playing tennis as a child on the segregated courts as a child in Virginia and went on to become the top tennis player in the world.

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Heroes
By Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee
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By Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee
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A Japanese American boy learns about heroism from his father and uncle who served in the U.S. Army.

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Jim Thorpe's Bright Path
By Joseph Bruchac, S. D. Nelson
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Jim Thorpe's Bright Path
By Joseph Bruchac, S. D. Nelson
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A biography of the legendary Native American Jim Thorpe (1888--1953), voted the Greatest Football Player and Greatest Athlete of the Half-Century by two AP polls, focusing on his early childhood and how school and sports shaped his future.

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Joe Louis, My Champion
By William Miller, Rodney Pate
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By William Miller, Rodney Pate
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During the mid-1930s, an African American boy who yearns to be a boxer learns the value of determination, perseverance, and his own natural abilities from the example of his hero, world champion prizefighter Joe Louis.

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Poems in the Attic
By Nikki Grimes, Elizabeth Zunon
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By Nikki Grimes, Elizabeth Zunon
Award-winning poet Nikki Grimes presents a tender poetry collection where a young girl learns about her mother, the child of an Air Force serviceman.

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Quiet Hero
The Ira Hayes Story
By S. D. Nelson
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The Ira Hayes Story
By S. D. Nelson
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A biography of Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines to raise the United States flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, an event immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.

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Seven Miles to Freedom
The Robert Smalls Story
By Janet Halfmann, Duane Smith
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The Robert Smalls Story
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The true story of Robert Smalls, a slave steamboat wheelman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War and escaped with his family and crew to freedom.

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Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds
The Sammy Lee Story
By Paula Yoo, Dom Lee
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The Sammy Lee Story
By Paula Yoo, Dom Lee
The inspirational true story of Sammy Lee, a Korean American who overcame discrimination to realize both his father's desire that he become a doctor and his own dream of becoming an Olympic champion diver.

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The Harvey Milk Story
By Kari Krakow, David Gardner
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The Harvey Milk Story
By Kari Krakow, David Gardner
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A hopeful and inspiring biography of the historic gay activist Harvey Milk, who gave people the courage to be proud of who they are.

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The School the Aztec Eagles Built
By Dorinda Nicholson
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The School the Aztec Eagles Built
By Dorinda Nicholson
A photo-illustrated book about the Aztec Eagles, Mexico's World War II Air Force squadron interwoven with the story of Sergeant Angel Bocanegra, whose service was rewarded with the building of a school in his village.

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The Sky We Shared
By Shirley Reva Vernick
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The Sky We Shared
By Shirley Reva Vernick
In this thoughtful and deftly woven WWII novel, an American and Japanese teen with lives on opposite ends of the world discover that hate for an "enemy" leaves a heavy heart.

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The Story of All-Star Athlete Jim Thorpe
By Joseph Bruchac, S. D. Nelson
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The Story of All-Star Athlete Jim Thorpe
By Joseph Bruchac, S. D. Nelson
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This entry in the innovative "Story" line of chapter-book biographies focuses on Jim Thorpe, an exceptional athlete with natural talent and the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States.

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The Story of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls
By Janet Halfmann, Duane Smith
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The Story of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls
By Janet Halfmann, Duane Smith
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This exciting entry in the "Story of" line of chapter-book biographies introduces readers to Robert Smalls, an enslaved steamboat wheelman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War and escaped with his family and crew to freedom.

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The Story of Olympic Diver Sammy Lee
By Paula Yoo, Dom Lee
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The Story of Olympic Diver Sammy Lee
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This compelling entry in the "Story of" line of chapter-book biographies features Sammy Lee, a Korean American diver who became the first Asian American to win an Olympic gold medal.

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The Story of Tennis Champion Arthur Ashe
By Crystal Hubbard, Kevin Belford
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By Crystal Hubbard, Kevin Belford
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The "Story" chapter-book line debuts with this action-packed tribute to Arthur Ashe, one of the most compelling athletes and humanitarians of the twentieth century.

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Wat Takes His Shot
The Life & Legacy of Basketball Hero Wataru Misaka
By Cheryl Kim, Nat Iwata
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The Life & Legacy of Basketball Hero Wataru Misaka
By Cheryl Kim, Nat Iwata
The stirring biography of Japanese American basketball star Wataru Misaka--the first person of color to play in the NBA!

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