Bartoletti explores how Hitler gained the loyalty, trust, and passion of so many of Germany's young people.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti pens an account of the potato blight that struck Ireland, telling the story of the men, women and children who made every attempt to survive and hang on to hope.

Boys, let us get up a club.

With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend's mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan, and, all too quickly, their club grew into the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire with secret dens spread across the South.

This is the story of how a secret terrorist group took root in America's democracy. Filled with chilling and vivid personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional...

What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? In this riveting biography of Mary Mallon, the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and constitutional rights, entangled with the science of pathology and enduring questions about who Mary Mallon really was. How did her name become synonymous with deadly disease? And who is really responsible for the lasting legacy of Typhoid Mary?