We Bought a Zoo by Bejamin Mee

Quite a different story and read it if you love animals and really want to know about them in captivity.

Empire of the Southern Moon by Gwynne

Wonderful true story of the Comanche nation in the 1800s -mostly in Texas and Mexico. I did not know any of this story and the people involved and found it fasinating reading. I recommend this to anyone wanting to learn of this very important time-1830 to 1900 and the settling of the western US.

Lords of the Sea by John Hale

This is realy a story of the birth of democracy in ancient Greece from 500BC to 332BC and should be read by everyone to see why the great city of Athens existed for such a short time with all the brillant people thatt were living then. It also lets us see that wars and hatred was rampant with European areas and Persia and her great expanse. We just never seem to learn from history-partly cause noone reads anything they don't want o know about. Like the book Help by Kay Sockett to alert us to the terrible way the negro was treated after WW 2 in our southern states . No wonder there was such a revolt in our country. We just don't study enough history and all we promote is math and science. It should be balanced .