Calkins Creek imprint: 47 books
Red Madness
How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
One hundred years ago, a mysterious and alarming illness spread across America’s South, striking tens of thousands of victims. No one knew what caused it or how to treat it. People were left weak, disfigured, insane, and in some cases, dead. Award-winning science and history writer Gail Jarrow tracks...
Bubonic Panic
When Plague Invaded America
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In March 1900, San Francisco’s health department investigated a strange and horrible death in Chinatown. A man had died of bubonic plague, one of the world’s deadliest diseases. But how could that be possible? Bubonic Panic tells the true story of America’s first plague epidemic—the public health...
Twelve Days in May
Freedom Ride 1961
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Winner
On May 4, 1961, a group of thirteen black and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Ride, aiming to challenge the practice of segregation on buses and at bus terminal facilities in the South. The Ride would last twelve days. Despite...
Fatal Fever
Tracking Down Typhoid Mary
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
In the early 1900s, when typhoid fever was killing tens of thousands of Americans each year, Mary Mallon was employed as a cook by several well-to-do New York families. When some members of these households developed the disease, suspicion turned to Mary. Did she have anything to do with the spread...
Strike!
The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
In 1965, as the grapes in California’s Coachella Valley were ready to harvest, migrant Filipino American workers—who picked and readied the crop for shipping—negotiated a wage of $1.40 per hour, the same wage growers had agreed to pay guest workers from Mexico. But when the Filipino grape pickers...
Spooked!
How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Acclaimed author Gail Jarrow explores in riveting detail the famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast from 1938, in this nonfiction title. Jarrow highlights the artists behind the broadcast, the broadcast itself, the aftermath,
and the repercussions which remain relevant today.
On the night...
by Jennifer Robin Barr
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Set in Philadelphia during the Great Depression, this middle-grade historical novel tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy and his best friend as they attempt to stop a wall from being built at Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics, that would block the view of the baseball field from their...
by Joyce Moyer Hostetter
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
With her father away at war to fight Hitler, a young girl gains strength by joining her community in battling polio in this Parents' Choice Silver Honor Book based on the 1944 epidemic and the "Miracle of Hickory" Hospital in Hickory, North Carolina. Ann Fay Honeycutt accepts the role...
by David Meissner, Kim Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
As thousands head north in search of gold, Marshall Bond and Stanley Pearce join them, booking passage on a steamship bound for the Klondike goldfields. The journey is life threatening, but the two friends make it to Dawson City, in Canada, build a cabin, and meet Jack London—all the while searching...
by Gretchen Woelfle
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the thousands of enslaved and free African Americans living in this country. But African Americans took up their own fight for freedom by joining the British and...
Schools of Hope
How Julius Rosenwald Helped Change African American Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
When Booker T. Washington, the famed African American educator, asked Julius Rosenwald, the wealthy president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and noted philanthropist, to help him build well-designed and fully equipped schools for black children, the face of education in the South changed for the better....
The Streak
How Joe DiMaggio Became America's Hero
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In the summer of 1941, Yankee center fielder Joe DiMaggio and his favorite bat, Betsy Ann, begin the longest hitting streak in baseball history. But when Betsy Ann goes missing, will DiMaggio keep hitting? Set on the brink of World War II, this is a spellbinding account of a sports story that united...
The Rain Wizard
The Amazing, Mysterious, True Life of Charles Mallory Hatfield
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In December 1915, San Diego’s leaders claimed the town’s reservoirs were nearly dry. Knowing the city would not survive and grow unless it had water, they hired Charles Mallory Hatfield, whose skills at making rain were legendary. But when torrents and torrents of rain came, disaster struck. Roads...
The Great American Foot Race
Ballyhoo for the Bunion Derby!
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This accessible and thoroughly researched nonfiction debut introduces young readers to a fascinating, little-known event—the Transcontinental Foot Race, which came to be known as the Bunion Derby. It is set in 1928, the height of the Roaring Twenties—a time of optimism, a time of excess, and the...