Biography & Autobiography - Historical
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Stories for Kids Who Dare to Be Different: True Tales of Amazing People Who Stood Up and Stood Out
$17.99 Add to cartBoys will be boys and girls will be girls? Not in this book.
The follow-up to Ben Brooks’s New York Times bestselling Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different, this book offers more extraordinary true… [more below]- Series: The Dare to Be Different
- Author: Brooks, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0762468556
- Language: English
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Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo Da Vinci
$8.99 Read moreAn introduction to Leonardo da Vinci’s genius focusing on his famous notebook sketches and the modern inventions they predicted.
In 1781, Thomas Paine came up with a model for a single-span bridge; in- Author: Barretta, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 21 2016
- ISBN10: 1250079608
- Language: English
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Aboard the Titanic (a True Book: The Titanic)
$7.99 Read moreRediscover the story of the largest and most luxurious ship ever built!
There were close to 2,200 people aboard the Titanic for its maiden voyage, including about 900 crew members. Among the ship’s fir
- Series: A True Book (Relaunch)
- Author: Son, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1338840517
- Language: English
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Building the Titanic (a True Book: The Titanic)
$7.99 Add to cartRediscover the story of the largest and most luxurious ship ever built!
At the time of its construction, the Titanic was an engineering wonder. At 882 feet, 8 inches long — a distance of more than fou
- Series: A True Book (Relaunch)
- Author: Shepherd, Jodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1338840487
- Language: English
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Anne Frank
$5.99 Add to cartAnne Frank is one of the first of many National Geographic Readers that highlight important historical figures. This level-3 reader brings an understanding of her historical significance to a whole ne… [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Zapruder, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1426313527
- Language: English
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Lewis & Clark (in Their Own Words)
$0.00 Read moreI Set out at 4oClock P.M. in the presence of many neighboring inhabitents inhabitants], and proceeded on under a jentle brease up the Missouri.William Clark’s journal entry for May 14, 1804, marks th
- Series: In Their Own Words
- Author: Sullivan, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01, 2000
- ISBN10: 0439095530
- Language: English
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Famous Men of the Renaissance & Reformation
$16.95 Add to cartAn unusual and thought-provoking collection of biographies that tell the story of the two great movements in European history that ushered in modern times. Many of the figures will be familiar (Da Vin… [more below]
- Author: Shearer, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: September 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1882514106
- Language: English
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The History Channel This Day in History for Kids: 1001 Remarkable Moments & Fascinating Facts
$25.00 Add to cartAn exciting, visual adventure through history with day-by-day accounts of extraordinary events, notable people, and incredible inventions for kids ages 8-12.
History comes alive in this beautifully il- Author: Bova, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 195839579X
- Language: English
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Susie King Taylor: Nurse, Teacher & Freedom Fighter
$8.99 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Never Caught and She Came to Slay comes a vibrant middle grade biography of Susie King Taylor, one of the first Black Civil War nurses, in a ne… [more below]
- Series: Rise. Risk. Remember. Incredible Stories of Courageous Black Women
- Author: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1665919930
- Language: English
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Child of the Dream (a Memoir of 1963)
$16.99 Read moreAn incredible memoir from Sharon Robinson about one of the most important years of the civil rights movement.
In January 1963, Sharon Robinson turns thirteen the night before George Wallace declares o… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Sharon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1338282808
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman: Freedom Fighter
$5.99 Add to cartLearn about the inspiring life of Harriet Tubman in this early reader biography. This I Can Read book is an excellent choice to share in the classroom or at home.
Harriet Tubman was a brave woman who w
- Series: I Can Read Level 2
- Author: Hohn, Nadia L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0062432842
- Language: English
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Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy
$9.99 Add to cartAny person who leaves
the country to go to another
and later returns
will be put to death.This was the law in Japan in the early 1800s. When fourteen-year-old Manjiro, working on a fishing boat to help s
- Author: Blumberg, Rhoda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 068817485X
- Language: English
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Tango Mike Mike: The Story of Master Sergeant Roy P. Benavidez
$19.99 Add to cartThis is the perfect children’s book and a short read (32 pages long) filled with family photos.
Kids will gain a basic understanding of Tango Mike Mike … the soldier, the father, the Legend.
- Author: Benavidez Garcia, Yvette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0998911712
- Language: English
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28 Days: Moments in Black History That Changed the World
$20.99 Read moreEach day features a different influential figure in African-American history, from Crispus Attucks, the first man shot in the Boston Massacre, sparking the Revolutionary War, to Madame C. J. Walker, w
- Author: Smith, Charles R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1596438207
- Language: English
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Rediscovering the Titanic (a True Book: The Titanic)
$7.99 Read moreRediscover the story of the largest and most luxurious ship ever built!
In 1985, Oceanographer Bob Ballard went searching for the most famous shipwreck of all time. Explorers, including Ballard, had be
- Series: A True Book (Relaunch)
- Author: Burgan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1338840576
- Language: English
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Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
$19.99 Read moreCapturing an engineer’s creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossibl… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Kathryn Gibbs
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0547959222
- Language: English
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Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution
$13.95 Add to cartAbigail Adams is often referred to as the wife of one president and the mother of another. Rarely is she described as a woman in her own right. Although her primary focus and concerns were in her role… [more below]
- Author: Bober, Natalie S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0689819161
- Language: English
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A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
$19.99 Read moreTold for the first time in picture book form is the true story of James Lafayette–an enslaved person who spied for George Washington’s army during the American Revolution.
After his resounding defe
- Author: Rockwell, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1467749338
- Language: English
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A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
$18.99 Add to cartAs a new generation of activists demands an end to racism, A Place to Land reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the movement that it galvanized.
Winner of the Orbis Pictus … [more below]- Author: Wittenstein, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 0823443310
- Language: English
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The Story of Johnny Appleseed
$7.99 Read moreThe classic story of legendary American pioneer Johnny Appleseed.
John Chapman lived in the frontier in Massachusetts. But when he decided to travel west, wearing a cooking pot on his head and plantin- Author: Aliki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 15 1971
- ISBN10: 0671667467
- Language: English
