Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

6 Series

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley is an American author known for her children's and young adult fiction. Her bestselling book, The War That Saved My Life, reached number one on the New York Times Bestseller List.

In "Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father's Secret Children," Kimberly Brubaker Bradley explores the hidden lives of Thomas Jefferson's illegitimate children born to a slave mother. The narrative delves into the harsh realities faced by these children, highlighting the stark contradiction between American ideals of freedom and the pervasive institution of slavery. This poignant story sheds light on a lesser-known aspect of Jefferson's legacy, revealing the challenges and struggles of his offspring as they navigate their complex identities in a society that denies their existence.

War

The War That Saved My Life

(2015)

The War I Finally Won

(2017)

The Night War

(2024)

Standalone Novels

Ruthie's Gift

(1998)

One-of-a-Kind Mallie

(1999)

Weaver's Daughter

(2000)

Halfway to the Sky

(2002)

For Freedom

(2003)

The President's Daughter

(2004)

The Lacemaker and the Princess

(2007)

Leap of Faith

(2007)

Jefferson's Sons

(2011)

Fighting Words

(2020)

One Night in Dallas

(2022)

Picture

Favorite Things

(2003)

Ballerino Nate

(2006)

The Perfect Pony

(2007)

Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1

How to Be a Nature Detective

(1958)(By: Millicent E. Selsam)

Big Tracks, Little Tracks

(1958)(By: Millicent E. Selsam)

A Tree Is a Plant

(1960)(By: Clyde Robert Bulla)

How a Seed Grows

(1960)(By: Helene J. Jordan)

What Makes a Shadow?

(1962)(By: Clyde Robert Bulla)

How Many Teeth?

(1962)(By: Paul Galdone,Paul Showers)

The Big Dipper

(1962)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

My Hands

(1962)(By: Aliki)

Starfish

(1962)(By: Edith Thacher Hurd)

My Five Senses

(1962)(By: Aliki)

Air Is All Around You

(1962)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

Fireflies in the Night

(1963)(By: Judy Hawes)

Animals in Winter

(1963)(By: Henrietta Bancroft,Richard G. Van Gelder)

Ducks Don't Get Wet

(1965)(By: Helen K. Davie,Augusta R. Goldin)

Sleep Is for Everyone

(1974)(By: Paul Showers)

Is There Life in Outer Space?

(1984)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

Shooting Stars

(1989)(By: Holly Keller)

Earthquakes

(1990)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

My Feet

(1990)(By: Aliki)

I'm Growing!

(1992)(By: Aliki)

From Tadpole to Frog

(1994)(By: Wendy Pfeffer)

What Lives in a Shell?

(1994)(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)

Baby Whales Drink Milk

(1994)(By: Barbara Juster Esbensen)

A Nest Full of Eggs

(1995)(By: Priscilla Belz Jenkins)

What's Alive?

(1995)(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)

On the Move

(1996)(By: Lizzy Rockwell,Deborah Heiligman)

What's It Like to Be a Fish?

(1996)(By: Wendy Pfeffer)

From Caterpillar to Butterfly

(1996)(By: Deborah Heiligman)

What Color Is Camouflage?

(1996)(By: Carolyn B. Otto)

A Safe Home for Manatees

(1997)(By: Priscilla Belz Jenkins)

Where Are the Night Animals?

(1998)(By: Mary Ann Fraser)

Our Puppies Are Growing

(1998)(By: Carolyn B. Otto)

Sounds All Around

(1998)(By: Wendy Pfeffer)

Snow Is Falling

(2000)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

Pop!

(2001)

Bugs Are Insects

(2001)(By: Anne Rockwell)

How Animal Babies Stay Safe

(2001)(By: Mary Ann Fraser)

Dinosaurs Big and Small

(2002)(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)

My Pet Hamster

(2002)(By: Anne Rockwell)

From Seed to Pumpkin

(2004)(By: Wendy Pfeffer)

Where Do Chicks Come From?

(2005)(By: Amy E. Sklansky)

Clouds

(2009)(By: Anne Rockwell)

A Cavity Is a Hole in Your Tooth

(2010)(By: Jodi Huelin)

Everybody, Move Your Feet!

(2010)(By: Jodi Huelin)

Why Can't I Have Cake for Dinner?

(2010)(By: Jodi Huelin)

What's for Lunch?

(2016)(By: Sarah L. Thomson)

The Sun and the Moon

(2016)(By: Carolyn Cinami Decristofano)

The Arctic Fox’s Journey

(2019)(By: Wendy Pfeffer)

Super Marsupials

(2019)(By: Katharine Kenah)

Thump Goes the Rabbit

(2020)(By: Fran Hodgkins)

Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2

Falcons Nest on Skyscrapers

(1900)(By: Priscilla Belz Jenkins)

The Moon Seems to Change

(1960)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

The Sun: Our Nearest Star

(1961)(By: Franklyn M. Branley)

What Makes Day and Night

(1961)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

What the Moon is Like

(1963)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll

(1964)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

Your Skin and Mine

(1965)(By: Paul Showers)

A Drop of Blood

(1967)(By: Paul Showers)

Hear Your Heart

(1968)(By: Paul Showers)

Why Frogs Are Wet

(1968)(By: Judy Hawes)

My Visit to the Dinosaurs

(1969)(By: Aliki)

Gravity Is a Mystery

(1970)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

What Happens to a Hamburger?

(1970)(By: Paul Showers)

The Skeleton Inside You

(1971)(By: Philip Balestrino)

Fossils Tell of Long Ago

(1972)(By: Aliki)

Where Does the Garbage Go?

(1974)(By: Paul Showers)

Sunshine Makes the Seasons

(1974)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

Milk: From Cow to Carton

(1974)(By: Aliki)

Day Light, Night Light: Where Light Comes From

(1975)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians

(1976)(By: Aliki)

The Sky Is Full of Stars

(1981)(By: Franklyn M. Branley)

Digging Up Dinosaurs

(1981)(By: Aliki)

The Planets in Our Solar System

(1981)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

Why I Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup, & Yawn

(1983)(By: Melvin A. Berger)

Let's Go Rock Collecting

(1984)(By: Roma Gans)

How to Talk to Your Computer

(1985)(By: Seymour Simon)

Germs Make Me Sick!

(1985)(By: Melvin A. Berger)

Dinosaurs Are Different

(1985)(By: Aliki)

Volcanoes

(1985)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

Ant Cities

(1987)(By: Arthur Dorros)

Tornado Alert

(1988)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

Snakes Are Hunters

(1988)(By: Patricia Lauber)

Dinosaur Bones

(1988)(By: Aliki)

What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

(1989)(By: Franklyn M. Branley)

Feel the Wind

(1989)(By: Arthur Dorros)

Switch On, Switch Off

(1989)(By: Melvin A. Berger)

Earthquakes

(1990)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

An Octopus Is Amazing

(1990)(By: Patricia Lauber)

What Will the Weather Be?

(1991)(By: Lynda DeWitt)

Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean

(1991)(By: Arthur Dorros)

Look Out for Turtles!

(1992)(By: Melvin A. Berger)

How Do Apples Grow?

(1992)(By: Betsy Maestro)

Be a Friend to Trees

(1993)(By: Patricia Lauber)

Why Do Leaves Change Color?

(1994)(By: Betsy Maestro)

Elephant Families

(1994)(By: Arthur Dorros)

Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs

(1994)(By: Patricia Lauber)

Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs

(1994)(By: Patricia Lauber)

How Mountains Are Made

(1995)(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)

Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats

(1995)(By: Ann Earle)

How Do Birds Find Their Way?

(1996)(By: Roma Gans)

You're Aboard Spaceship Earth

(1996)(By: Patricia Lauber)

What Makes a Magnet?

(1996)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

Archaeologists Dig for Clues.jpg

(1996)(By: kate-duke)

Down Comes the Rain

(1997)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

Sponges Are Skeletons

(1998)(By: Barbara Juster Esbensen)

Floating in Space

(1998)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

What Is the World Made Of?: All About Solids, Liquids, and Gases

(1998)(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)

Dinosaur Babies

(1999)(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)

International Space Station

(2000)(By: Franklyn M. Branley)

Terrible Tyrannosaurs

(2001)(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)

Penguin Chick

(2001)(By: Betty Tatham)

Mission to Mars

(2002)(By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)

Energy Makes Things Happen

(2002)

Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?

(2003)(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)

Spinning Spiders

(2003)(By: Melvin A. Berger)

Dolphin Talk: Whistles, Clicks, and Clapping Jaws

(2003)(By: Wendy Pfeffer)

Wiggling Worms at Work

(2003)(By: Wendy Pfeffer)

Honey in a Hive

(2005)(By: Anne Rockwell)

Forces Make Things Move

(2005)

Why Are the Ice Caps Melting?: The Dangers of Global Warming

(2006)(By: Anne Rockwell)

Who Lives in an Alligator Hole?

(2006)(By: Anne Rockwell)

Almost Gone: The World's Rarest Animals

(2006)(By: Steve Jenkins)

Dinosaur Tracks

(2007)(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)

How People Learned to Fly

(2007)(By: Fran Hodgkins)

What's So Bad About Gasoline?

(2009)(By: Anne Rockwell)

Life in a Coral Reef

(2009)(By: Wendy Pfeffer)

Where Do Polar Bears Live?

(2009)(By: Sarah L. Thomson)

Where Did Dinosaurs Come From?

(2010)(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)

What Happens to Our Trash?

(2012)(By: D. J. Ward)

Light Is All Around Us

(2014)(By: Wendy Pfeffer)

In the Rainforest

(2014)(By: Kate Duke)

Sharks Have Six Senses

(2015)(By: John F. Waters)

Hurricane Watch

(2015)(By: Melissa Stewart)

Simple Machines

(2015)(By: D.J. Ward)

Flood Warning

(2016)(By: Katharine Kenah)

How Deep Is the Ocean?

(2016)(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)

Phones Keep Us Connected

(2017)(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)

Droughts

(2017)(By: Melissa Stewart)

Pinocchio Rex and Other Tyrannosaurs

(2017)(By: Steve Brusatte,Melissa Stewart)

Running on Sunshine: How Does Solar Energy Work?

(2018)(By: Carolyn Cinami Decristofano)

What Makes a Blizzard?

(2018)(By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)

How a City Works

(2018)(By: D.J. Ward)

A Pandemic Is Worldwide

(2022)(By: Sarah L. Thomson)

She Persisted

Ella Fitzgerald

(2002)(By: Andrea Davis Pinkney)

13 American Women Who Changed the World

(2017)(By: Chelsea Clinton)

She Persisted Around the World

(2018)(By: Chelsea Clinton)

She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game

(2020)(By: Chelsea Clinton)

Harriet Tubman

(2021)(By: Andrea Davis Pinkney)

Claudette Colvin

(2021)(By: Lesa Cline-Ransome)

Sally Ride

(2021)(By: Atia Abawi)

Virginia Apgar

(2021)(By: Sayantani DasGupta)

Nellie Bly

(2021)(By: Michelle Knudsen)

Sonia Sotomayor

(2021)(By: Meg Medina)

Florence Griffith Joyner

(2021)(By: Rita Williams-Garcia)

Ruby Bridges

(2021)(By: Kekla Magoon)

Clara Lemlich

(2021)(By: Deborah Heiligman)

Margaret Chase Smith

(2021)(By: Ruby Shamir)

She Persisted: Margaret Chase Smith

(2021)(By: Ruby Shamir)

She Persisted: Maria Tallchief

(2021)(By: Christine Day)

Maria Tallchief

(2021)(By: Christine Day)

Helen Keller

(2021)(By: Courtney Sheinmel)

Oprah Winfrey

(2021)(By: Renée Watson)

Wangari Maathai

(2022)(By: Eucabeth A. Odhiambo)

She Persisted in Science: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference

(2022)(By: Chelsea Clinton)

Temple Grandin

(2022)(By: Lyn Miller-Lachmann)

Patsy Mink

(2022)(By: Tae Keller)

Malala Yousafzai

(2022)(By: Aisha Saeed)

Diana Taurasi

(2022)(By: Monica Brown)

Wilma Mankiller

(2022)(By: Traci Sorell)

Maya Lin

(2022)(By: Grace Lin)

Rosalind Franklin

(2022)

Dorothy Height

(2023)(By: Kelly Starling Lyons)

Florence Nightingale

(2023)(By: Chelsea Clinton,Shelli R. Johannes)

Pura Belpré

(2023)(By: Meg Medina,Marilisa Jimenez Garcia)

Simone Biles

(2023)(By: Kekla Magoon)

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