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- Rebel girls lead, 25 tales of powerful women
- Madam Speaker, Nancy Pelosi and the lessons of power, Susan Page
- Billy Graham, an ordinary man and his extraordinary God, Lon Allison ; foreword by Dr. Leighton Ford and Jean Graham Ford
- The forest man, the true story of Jadav Payeng, by Anne Matheson and Kay Widdowson
- Rad girls can, stories of bold, brave, and brilliant young women, written by Kate Schatz ; illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl
- 12 rounds in Lo's Gym, boxing and manhood in Appalachia, Todd D. Snyder
- Child of the flower-song people, Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua, written by Gloria Amescua ; illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh
- With her fist raised, Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the transformative power of black community activism, Laura L. Lovett
- Girl code, gaming, going viral, and getting it done, Andrea Gonzales and Sophie Houser
- Sisters and rebels, a struggle for the soul of America, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
- The unpunished vice, a life of reading, Edmund White
- Who was Chuck Jones?, by Jim Gigliotti ; illustrated by John Hinderliter
- Maggie Smith, a biography, Michael Coveney
- The firebrand and the First Lady, portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice, Patricia Bell-Scott
- Mary Seacole, bound for the battlefield, Susan Goldman Rubin, illustrated by Richie Pope
- The girl who named Pluto, the story of Venetia Burney, Alice B. McGinty ; illustrated by Elizabeth Haidle
- Zaha Hadid, architect, by Christina Leaf
- Figures in film and television, Lucille Ball, Walt Disney, Jim Henson, Alfred Hitchcock, Bruce Lee, George Lucas
- Major Taylor, by J. P. Miller ; illustrated by Markia Jenai
- For colored girls who have considered politics, Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore with Veronica Chambers
- We could not fail, the first African Americans in the Space Program, Richard Paul & Steven Moss
- Michelle Obama, first lady, going higher, by Shana Corey ; illustrations by James Bernardin
- G-man, J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century, Beverly Gage
- Who is Greta Thunberg?, by Jill Leonard ; illustrated by Manuel Gutierrez
- Revolution song, a story of American freedom, Russell Shorto
- Hidden figures, the true story of four black women and the space race, by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- Peace and me, Ali Winter ; Mickaël El Fathi
- Captain Tom Moore, written by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Christophe Jacques
- Young Hitler, the making of the Führer, Paul Ham
- Ida B. the queen, the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells, Michelle Duster and Hannah Giorgis
- The long jump, the story of Jean-Baptiste Alaize, Francesca Cavallo ; illustrated by Kezna Dalz
- Young, gifted and black, meet 52 black heroes from past and present, words by Jamia Wilson ; illustrated by Andrea Pippins
- Starstruck, the cosmic journey of Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kathleen Krull and Paul Brewer ; illustrated by Frank Morrison
- Women in white coats, how the first women doctors changed the world of medicine, Olivia Campbell
- Grace & steel, Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the women of the Bush dynasty, J. Randy Taraborrelli
- Slaves in the family, Edward Ball
- The wonders we seek, thirty incredible Muslims who helped shape the world, Saadia Faruqi and Aneesa Mumtaz ; illustrated by Saffa Khan
- Native actors and filmmakers, visual storytellers, Gary Robinson
- Warhol, Blake Gopnik
- Lionel Messi, Dan Wetzel ; illustrations by Jay Reed
- Founding martyr, the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero, Christian Di Spigna
- Washington's end, the final years and forgotten struggle, Jonathan Horn
- Terrible typhoid Mary, a true story of the deadliest cook in America, Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Brothers and wives, inside the private lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan, Christopher Andersen
- Rebecca Lee Crumpler, by J. P. Miller ; illustrated by Markia Jenai
- The code breaker, Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race, Walter Isaacson
- Who was Catherine the Great?, by Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso ; illustrated by Dede Putra
- The Wright brothers, David McCullough
- Frida Kahlo, written by Ma Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Gee Fan Eng ; translated by Emma Martinez
- John's secret dreams, the life of John Lennon, written by Doreen Rappaport ; illustrated by Bryan Collier
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