Biography & Autobiography - Historical
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Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
$9.99 Add to cartThe pioneer spirit of the Little House series lives on in this picture book biography perfect for young readers This picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular f
- Series: Little House Nonfiction
- Author: Anderson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 02 2000
- ISBN10: 006446234X
- Language: English
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Mahatma Gandhi
$15.99 Read moreNew in the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the life of Mohandas Gandhi, the father of India, in this true story of his life. As a young teenager in India, Gandhi led a rebellious life and w… [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #25
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1786037874
- Language: English
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Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America’s First Bookmobile
$18.99 Read moreSharlee Glenn’s picture book Library on Wheels tells the true story of America’s first bookmobile.
If you can’t bring the man to the books, bring the books to the man. Mary Lemist Titcomb (1852-1932)- Author: Glenn, Sharlee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 141972875X
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
$5.95 Read moreThomas B. Allen’s follow-up to the multi-award-winning George Washington, Spymaster is now available in paperback. This compelling biography tells the amazing tale of Harriet Tubman using details unco… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1426304013
- Language: English
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The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy
$19.99 Add to cartA brilliant picture book biography about Thurgood Marshall, who fought for equality during the Civil Rights Movement and served as the first Black justice on the Supreme Court, from Coretta Scott King
- Author: Magoon, Kekla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0062912518
- Language: English
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Pocahontas: Young Peacemaker
$7.99 Add to cartPocahnontas: Young Peacemaker is the next installment in the Childhood of Famous Americans series.
Written by Leslie Gourse, Pocahontas: Young Peacemaker is the story of the brave and kindhearted Nati- Series: Childhood of Famous Americans (Paperback)
- Author: Gourse, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0689808089
- Language: English
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Deadly Hearts: History’s Most Dangerous People
$15.99 Read moreA visually dynamic companion to the biographical collection Dark Hearts, this collection of biographies details the cruel and often horrifying lives of history’s most notorious – and deadly – people. … [more below]
- Author: Burgan, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0593386671
- Language: English
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Through My Eyes
$17.99 Add to cartIn November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil … [more below]
- Author: Bridges, Ruby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0590189239
- Language: English
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Immigrant Architect: Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream
$9.95 Read moreRafael Guastavino Sr. was 39 when he left a successful career as an architect in Barcelona. American cities–densely packed and built largely of wood–were experiencing horrific fires, and Guastavino
- Author: de Miguel, Berta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0884488136
- Language: English
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The Ghostly Tales of Ohio’s Haunted Cemeteries
$12.99 Read moreGhost stories from Ohio’s haunted cemeteries have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery!
Welcome to the spooky cemeteries of Ohio!
Stay Alert! Ghosts lurk around every corner. Even the most u
- Series: Spooky America
- Author: Byrne, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1467197408
- Language: English
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Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman
$8.99 Read moreWhen Bessie Coleman was a child, she wanted to be in school — not in the cotton fields of Texas, helping her family earn money. She wanted to be somebody significant in the world. So Bessie did every… [more below]
- Author: Borden, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0689864620
- Language: English
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Spotted Tail
$18.95 Read moreThis biography of Spotted Tail traces the life of the famous Lakota leader who expertly guided his people through a pivotal and tumultuous time in their nation’s history as they fought and then negoti… [more below]
- Author: Heska Wanblir Weiden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1478867884
- Language: English
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Boys Who Rocked the World: Heroes from King Tut to Bruce Lee
$11.99 Read moreMeet young men with grand goals in these profiles of forty-six movers and shakers who made their mark before they turned twenty.
This engaging and thought-provoking collection of influential stories p- Author: Roehm McCann, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1582703310
- Language: English
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Who Was Levi Strauss?
$6.99 Read moreHow did an immigrant who sold sewing supplies in New York City reinvent himself in the American West by creating the most iconic pair of pants in the world? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ lib… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Labrecque, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0448488566
- Language: English
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Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World War II
$24.99 Read moreRachel’s Oma (her grandmother) has two picture albums. In one the photographs show only happy times — from after World War II, when she and her daughters had come to America. But the other album incl… [more below]
- Author: Russo, Marisabina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0689869207
- Language: English
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Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust
$9.99 Read moreResilience shines throughout Michael Gruenbaum’s “riveting memoir” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) about his time in the Terezin concentration camp during the Holocaust, in this National Jewish Bo… [more below]
- Author: Gruenbaum, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 144248487X
- Language: English
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Amelia Earhart (Spanish Edition)
$8.99 Read moreThis beautiful Spanish-language book, translated from the hugely popular Little People, BIG DREAMS series, can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers and those learning the language, whether at home or… [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams en Español #3
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0711284660
- Language: Spanish
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Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You
$9.99 Read moreWith poetic text and dynamic art, award-winning creators Carole Boston Weatherford and James E. Ransome use key moments from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life to inspire future generations to stand up
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1547608978
- Language: English
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Ruby, Head High: Ruby Bridge’s First Day of School
$19.99 Read moreInspired by an iconic Norman Rockwell painting and translated from an original French text, this is a story about the day a little girl held her head high and changed the world.
- Author: Cohen-Janca, Irene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1568463413
- Language: English
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Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story
$12.95 Add to cartThe true story of Robert Smalls, a slave steamboat wheelman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War and escaped with his family and crew to freedom.
Growing up a slave in South Carolin
- Author: Halfmann, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1600609864
- Language: English
