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Fascinating Moments in History for Kids - Summer Adventure 2025

A Paris mosque under Nazi occupation, a strange object crashes in the New Mexico desert, and a young girl navigates the partition of India. Learn about these fascinating moments of history and more! AC Library invites everyone to participate in our 2025 Summer Adventure. Complete activities, reading, and more to receive a book gift and prize drawing entries. Start building your own Summer Adventure June 1 at any AC library location (including our mobile library stops) and online at aclibrary.org/summer.

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  • A thrilling historical novel inspired by the true story of the Muslims who worked to hide their Jewish neighbors in the Grand Mosque of Paris during the Nazi occupation of WWII.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Allida, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers 2024 — J KHAN,H
  • It's 1967 in the Mississippi Delta, and Ellis Earl just wishes his whole family had a little more food to eat, and maybe a roof that doesn't leak every time it rains. When he learns that US Senator Bobby Kennedy is coming to Mississippi, he thinks…
    Book, 2022Somerville, Massachuetts: Candlewick Press, 2022 — J JACKSON,L
  • A 12-year-old girl and her 8-year-old brother must walk hundreds of miles to flee North Korea at the height of the Korean war in this thrilling historical tale.
    Book, 2020New York : Holiday House, [2020] — J LEE,J
  • Crash From Outer Space

    Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell

    Fleming, Candace,
    In 1947, a strange object crashed into a field in Roswell, New Mexico. People still wonder what happened here, that has inspired countless conspiracy theories, science fictiom stories, and sightings of UFOs and flying saucers. Candace Fleming…
    Book, 2022New York : Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., [2022] — J001.942 FLEMING
  • In 1968, Delphine travels with her two sisters to spend a summer in Oakland with a mother who they barely remember. They don't know what to expect, but it wasn't summer camp with the Black Panthers! This charming coming of age story explores a…
    Book, 2010New York, NY : Amistad, c2010 — J WILLIAMS-GARCIA,R
  • The Mona Lisa Vanishes

    a Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

    Day, Nick (Nicholas),
    Once upon a time, the world's most famous painting vanished from the world's most famous museum. How did this happen? And how did the Mona Lisa return to the Louvre.
    Book, 2023New York : Random House Studio, [2023] — J364.16287 DAY
  • 12-year-old Nisha is half-Hindu, half-Muslim. When the British government decides to split the newly independent India into two countries and create the new state of Pakistan, she and her family must embark on a treacherous journey.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2018] — J HIRANANDANI,V
  • WWII is raging, and Millie McGonigle is growing up in sunny California. Her parents want her to worry about school and play on the beach. But how can she do that when it feels like the world is ending?
    Book, 2021New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021] — J CUSHMAN,K
  • The story of Lise Meitner, the Jewish woman who discovered nuclear fission and how to split the atom. Learn about how a Jewish survived in Nazi Germany, how a pacifist felt when her work led to the creation of the atomic bomb, and how a scientist…
    Book, 2022New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2022 — JB MEITNER,L
  • Native Ojibwe girl Omakayas is living peacefully with her family and people on an island in Lake Superior. Then one day, the chimookomanag, the white people, arrive and demand that they all move west. As she grows up, Omakayas must learn to…
    Book, 2005New York : HarperCollins, c2005 — J ERDRICH,L
  • The Astrochimps

    America's First Astronauts

    Cusick, Dawn,
    Before America sent men into space, they sent chimps. Meet the chimps that went into space and the scientists, vetarinarians, and psychologists who took care of them and helped them go where no man had gone before.
    Book, 2024Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2024] — J629.45 CUSICK
  • Hana, a mixed-race Chinese girl, grows up on the prairies of the American frontier in the 1880s.
    Book, 2020Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020] — J PARK,L
  • In 1935, 12-year-old Cato dreams of joining the Negro Leagues and playing baseball. But when his all-Black team plays a local all-white team, but when Cato's team starts winning, the game is abruptly cancelled, and soon Cato's entire family is in…
    Book, 2024New York : Holiday House, 2024 — J HEADEN,S
  • The Enigma Girls

    How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

    Fleming, Candace,
    Learn about the brilliant women who helped the allies win WWII. At the height of WWII, a bunch of young women, some of them just teenagers, were told to report to the crumbling mansion of Bletchley Park. They nature of their work would remain a…
    Book, 2024New York : Scholastic Focus, 2024 — J940.54864 FLEMING