Young Adult Biography
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Davy Crockett: Ever Westward
$11.99 Add to cartGrowing up in Greene County, Tennessee, Davy Crockett’s education came from the toil of hard labor. Working as a farm hand and wagon driver, he learned about the people and the land of the West — and… [more below]
- Series: Heroes of History
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 189
- Publish Date: January 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1932096671
- Language: English
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Joe Biden: Our 46th President
$17.99 Read moreA biography of Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States: from childhood through the Senate to his election as vice president and, in 2020, as president.
The road to the presidency of- Author: Gormley, Beatrice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1534479325
- Language: English
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Michael Faraday: Father of Electronics
$14.99 Add to cartCharles Ludwig retells Michael Faraday’s remarkable life story in fictionalized form. Here is the father of the electric motor, the dynamo, the transformer, the generator. Few persons are aware of the
- Author: Ludwig, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0836134796
- Language: English
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Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
$21.99 Add to cartThe story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timoth e Chalamet.
This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine tells- Author: Sheff, Nic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1416913629
- Language: English
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Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
$8.99 Add to cartA Newbery Honor Book
In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed artist follow the life of a man who courageously shipped h- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1536227757
- Language: English
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Joseph Stalin (a Wicked History)
$5.95 Add to cartExplore the life of Joseph Stalin.
The wicked ways of some of the most ruthless rulers to walk the earth are revealed in these thrilling biographies (A Wicked History) about men and women so monstrous,… [more below]
- Series: Wicked History
- Author: McCollum, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0531223558
- Language: English
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
$21.99 Add to cartA plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengea… [more below]
- Author: Rehak, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 2006
- ISBN10: 015603056X
- Language: English
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The Bite of Mango
$12.95 Add to cartAs a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old M… [more below]
- Author: Kamara, Mariatu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1554511585
- Language: English
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The Cage: A Holocaust Memoir
$12.99 Add to cartA testament to the enduring strength of the human spirit, family, and, above all, hope, this “vivid memoir of a woman who lost her youth and family to the Nazis” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) is a … [more below]
- Author: Sender, Ruth Minsky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1481457225
- Language: English
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Ablaze: Stories of Daring Teen Saints
$17.99 Add to cartFollowing Christ isn’t always easy. You need faith, courage, patience, and love.
Colleen Swaim looks at eight young souls who became saints for the against-the-current, selfless heroism of their teen y
- Author: Swaim, Colleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 076482029X
- Language: English
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William Carey: Obliged to Go
$11.99 Add to cartWilliam Carey watched from the dock as the magnificent sailing ship headed for the English Channel without him. Tears filled his eyes, and deep disappointment filled his heart. What would he tell the … [more below]
- Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 213
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1576581470
- Language: English
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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: The Journey of Doaa Al Zamel: One Teen Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
$18.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary true story of one teen refugee’s quest to find a new life–now adapted for young readers
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea tells the story of Doaa Al-Zamel, a Syrian girl whose life- Author: Fleming, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1250311438
- Language: English
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Pauli Murray’s Revolutionary Life: A YA Biography
$24.99 Add to cartInspiring and timely, Pauli Murray’s Revolutionary Life is the riveting story of an African American woman, born in 1910, who blazed through the barriers of race and gender decades before the Civil Ri
- Author: Kuznick, Simki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1578690773
- Language: English
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Miracle On Chestnut Street: The Untold Story of Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence
$16.95 Add to cartMilton Nieuwsma explains why he wrote Miracle on Chestnut Street and reflects on Thomas Jefferson, the man and his legacy:
So why did you write this book?
“For a couple of reasons. One was to tell the
- Author: Nieuwsma, Milton J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: December 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1899694943
- Language: English
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Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard
$14.99 Add to cartA brave firsthand account of online personality Alex Bertie’s life, struggles, and victories as a transgender teen, as well as a groundbreaking guide for transitioning teens.
Long before he became know… [more below]- Author: Bertie, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0316490326
- Language: English
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I Wanted to Be a Pilot: The Making of a Tuskegee Airman
$18.95 Add to cartSometimes history is made by a dyslexic, mischievous boy who hates school, is a descendant of one of Frederick Douglass’ half-sisters, and whose Pops was a Buffalo Soldier. In I Wanted to be a Pilot,
- Author: Macon, Franklin J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1683509609
- Language: English
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A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (National Book Award Winner)
$14.99 Read moreAn ALA Notable Book and winner of the National Book Award for Children’s Books, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s A Day of Pleasure shares his memories as a boy growing up in Warsaw, Poland prior to World War I
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0374416966
- Language: English
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When Hip Hop Met Poetry: An Urban Love Story
$20.00 Add to cartRashad and Jenesis are teenagers who are facing a harsh reality. Although madly in love, they are from two different sides of the track and quickly learn that their passion for one another is not supp
- Author: Ringstaff, Tytianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: May 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0991031873
- Language: English
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Frida & Diego: Art, Love, Life
$18.99 Read moreNontraditional, controversial, rebellious, and politically volatile, the Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are remembered for their provocative paintings as well as for their deep love for … [more below]
- Author: Reef, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0547821840
- Language: English
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Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of ADA Blackjack, the Female Robinson Crusoe Volume 15
$19.95 Add to cartA Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2017
In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top-secret expedition: an attempt to claim uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia f- Series: Women of Action
- Author: Caravantes, Peggy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1613730985
- Language: English
