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The boy who drew birds: a story of John James Audubon / by Jacqueline Davies
Par Jacqueline Davies, Melissa Sweet. 2004
Recounts how passionately the young Frenchman who made his home in America loved birds. Describes the numerous drawings and paintings…
he made of birds, their nests, and eggs and reveals the way he determined whether migrating birds return to the same place in the spring. For grades 2-4. 2004Boy on Fairfield Street: how Ted Geisel grew up to become Dr. Seuss
Par Kathleen Krull, Steve Johnson, Lou Fancher. 2004
Introduces the renowned writer and illustrator Ted Geisel, known as Dr. Seuss, author of The Cat in the Hat (DB…
33062) and others. Describes Ted's childhood in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he lived near both the zoo and the library; also discusses his career. For grades 3-6. 2004Touching the sky: the flying adventures of Wilbur and Orville Wright
Par Louise Borden, Peter M. Fiore, Trish Marx. 2003
Biographies of the Wright brothers and a description of their extraordinary achievements, mostly two events of September 1909. As Wilbur…
Wright dazzled New Yorkers with a spectacular flying demonstration, Orville set amazing flight records at an exhibition in Germany. Includes an aviation timeline. For grades 2-4. 2003Baseball Hall of Famer's daughter illustrates nine values--including courage, determination, teamwork, integrity, citizenship, and justice--her father exemplified, using events from…
his own and others' lives. Includes commentary by and about Christopher Reeve, Muhammad Ali, and Michael Jordan. For junior and senior high readers. 2001Helen Keller: rebellious spirit
Par Laurie Lawlor. 2001
Biography of the blind and deaf girl whose spirit knew no limitations. Discusses Keller's achievements in the context of the…
social expectations for women and people with disabilities in the early twentieth century. Describes her disappointments and frustrations as well as her accomplishments. For grades 5-8. 2001A picture book of Louis Braille (Picture Book Biographies)
Par David A Adler, David A. Adler, John C. Wallner, Alexandra Wallner, John Wallner. 1997
Presents the life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who was accidentally blinded as a child. Louis Braille originated the raised dot…
system of reading and writing used throughout the world by visually impaired individuals. For grades K-3. 1997Charles Dickens: the man who had great expectations
Par Diane Stanley, Peter Vennema. 1993
Follows the life and writing career of Charles Dickens, the famous nineteenth-century English novelist whose works include David Copperfield (DB…
22325), Oliver Twist (DB 22868), and A Christmas Carol (DB 43546). Describes his advocacy for needy children. For grades 4-7. 1993A long and uncertain journey: the 27,000 mile voyage of Vasco da Gama (Great explorers book)
Par Joan E Goodman, Joan Goodman, Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Tom McNeely. 2001
Stone girl, bone girl: the story of Mary Anning (Orchard HC Picture Books)
Par Laurence Anholt, Sheila Moxley. 1999
A brief biography of a young English fossil hunter in the early 1800s. Describes how Mary Anning learns about treasures…
in the rocks and how at age twelve she makes an important scientific discovery--bones of a sea monster that are 165 million years old. For grades K-3. 1998Flora and Tiger: 19 very short stories from my life
Par Eric Carle. 1997
The author/illustrator of such books as The Very Hungry Caterpillar (DB 24609) tells about animals and insects, friends and relatives,…
and himself in Germany during his childhood and World War II; also brief sketches of life after his arrival in the United States. For grades 4-7Wilma unlimited: how Wilma Rudolph became the world's fastest woman
Par Kathleen Krull, David Diaz. 1996
African American Wilma Rudolph weighed only four pounds when she was born in 1940, and she had nineteen older brothers…
and sisters. Childhood polio left her leg paralyzed, but Wilma exercised until she not only walked but became an Olympic gold medal runner. For grades 2-4I had a lot of wishes
Par James Stevenson. 1995
When I was young, I had lots of wishes. I wished for something to happen, I wished for something not…
to happen, or I wished I could get something I didn't have--or at least borrow it. Some wishes were big, and some were small. Then one summer, I wished I could go to camp, and I finally got my wish! But when I got to camp, I had another wish. For grades K-3My first book of biographies: great men and women every child should know (Cartwheel Learning Bookshelf)
Par Jean Marzollo, Irene Trivas. 1994
Forty-five short biographies introducing famous men and women from around the world. Includes people with various accomplishments, such as Neil…
Armstrong, Walt Disney, Helen Keller, Jesse Owens, and Beatrix Potter. For grades 2-4A boy called Slow: the true story of Sitting Bull
Par Joseph Bruchac, Rocco Baviera. 1994
In the 1830s, parents in the Lakota Sioux tribe gave their children childhood names like Runny Nose and Hungry Mouth.…
Later when the child had grown and proven himself, he earned a new name. Returns Again named his boy Slow because he never did anything quickly. Slow hated his name and tried hard to earn a better one. At fourteen, Slow had a chance to show his bravery and was named Sitting Bull. For grades K-3The story of Ruby Bridges (Journeys 2014)
Par Robert Coles, George Ford. 1995
In 1960, when Ruby Bridges was six, a judge ordered that she be allowed to attend an all-white school in…
New Orleans. Prayer helped her stay calm when angry crowds followed her to school and when all her classmates were kept home by their parents. For grades K-3Lee Trevino: Mexican-American Golfer (Hispanics of Achievement Ser.Hispanics of Achievement)
Par Thomas W. Gilbert, Thomas W Gilbert. 1992
Born in Texas in 1939 and raised by his single mother, Trevino endured a lonely life as a child. He…
dropped out of school, played a little golf, and wandered aimlessly until he enlisted in the marines. More disciplined after his discharge in 1960, Trevino again took up golf and within seven years was playing and winning professionally. Gilbert chronicles Trevino's rise to fame and his successes on both the PGA and Senior Tours. For grades 5-8Colin Powell: Military Leader (Black Americans of Achievement Ser.Black Americans of Achievement)
Par Warren Brown, Nathan I. Huggins. 1992
Discusses the life and career of Colin Powell, the nation's first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)…
for the armed forces. Appointed in 1989, Powell had also been promoted to the army's highest rank, four-star general, several months prior. In a military that had at first excluded, then segregated African-Americans under the command of white officers, his achievement was of great significance. For grades 5-8 and older readersFollow the dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus
Par Peter Sís, Peter Sis. 1991
More than five hundred years ago, Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. His parents hoped that he would be…
a weaver like his father. But Columbus wove dreams of adventure and discovery with his ambition to be a sailor and explorer, and imagined finding a route to the East by sailing west. No one believed that that was possible, but Columbus did not give up. And what he found was a continent unknown to Europeans. For grades K-3 and older readersSt. Jerome and the lion
Par Margaret Hodges, Barry Moser. 1991
Long ago a Christian named Jerome (who later became Saint Jerome) built a monastery in Bethlehem. There each monk and…
animal had a job to do. Jerome would work all day and spend his nights translating the Bible into Latin, the most common language used by people who could read. This is the story of the lion who came to live in the monastery and who taught the brethren a lesson in humility, faith, and forgiveness. For grades K-3 and older readersDon't you know there's a war on?
Par James Stevenson. 1992
The author, a ten-year-old boy in 1942 when the United States entered World War II, reminisces on just what it…
was like to be a "kid." With his brother and father away fighting, he tried to do his part to win the war by collecting tinfoil, saving tin cans, buying war stamps, planting a "victory garden," and keeping an eye on a neighbor who he suspected was a spy. For grades 2-4 to share with older readers