Young Adult Biography
-
Michi Challenges History: From Farm Girl to Costume Designer to Relentless Seeker of the Truth: The Life of Michi Nishiura Weglyn
$19.95 Add to cartThe daughter of Japanese immigrants, Michi Nishiura Weglyn was confined in Arizona’s Gila River concentration camp during World War II. She later became a costume designer for Broadway and worked as t
- Author: Mochizuki, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1324015888
- Language: English
-
Born a Girl: It Takes Courage
$29.95 Add to cart★“This informative and inspiring offering should help teens assert their rights.”— Booklist, starred review
When you’re born a girl, some parts of the world are kinder places to grow up in than
- Author: Dussutour, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 145983898X
- Language: English
-
Female, Gifted, and Black: Awesome Art and Literary Pioneers Who Changed the World (Black Historical Figures, Women in Black History)
$19.99 Add to cartEmbrace Black girl magic and learn about the Black historical figures who made their impact on society as we know it. Female, Gifted and Black, the follow-up to The Book of Awesome Black Women, celebr… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Becca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1684811147
- Language: English
-
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
$12.99 Add to cart“No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful.”–School Library Journal, starred
I did not ask myself, “Should I do this?” but “How will I do t- Author: Opdyke, Irene Gut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0553538845
- Language: English
-
I Could Not Do Otherwise: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
$16.99 Read moreGrateful American Book Prize Book of Honorable Mention
As a teenager, Mary Edwards Walker determined she would no longer wear the confining corsets and long skirts society dictated women wear at the
- Author: Latta, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1728413923
- Language: English
-
Dove
$17.99 Add to cartIn 1965, 16-year-old Robin Lee Graham began a solo around-the-world voyage from San Pedro, California, in a 24-foot sloop. Five years and 33,000 miles later, he returned to home port with a wife and d
- Author: Graham, Robin L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 27 1991
- ISBN10: 0060920475
- Language: English
-
Farewell to Manzanar 50th Anniversary Edition
$22.99 Read moreJeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls her childhood at a Japanese incarceration camp in this engrossing memoir that has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country. This spe
- Author: Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063319055
- Language: English
-
Poverty of the Mind
$14.95 Read morePoverty of the Mind is about how I lived on the street because I was trying to find myself and because I was ignorant and uneducated. Looking back at my life, I can relate to many groups of people tha
- Author: Drake, Ricki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888327623
- Language: English
-
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali (Scholastic Focus): Muhammad Ali
$6.99 Add to cart“I’m not only the greatest; I’m the double greatest.”– Muhammad Ali in 1962 to the NY Times.The Louisville Lip. Cassius Clay. The Greatest.Muhammad Ali may be known by more than one name, but his acc… [more below]
- Series: Greatest
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0590543431
- Language: English
-
Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
$6.95 Add to cartJoseph Lemasolai Lekuton gives American kids a firsthand look at growing up in Kenya as a member of a tribe of nomads whose livelihood centers on the raising and grazing of cattle. Readers share Lekut… [more below]
- Author: Viola, Herman J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0792272978
- Language: English
-
Mbappé
$9.95 Add to cartMbappé plays for Paris Saint-Germain.
As a teenager, Kylian Mbappé was one of the best footballers on the planet. Now – he just keeps on getting better. Kylian’s skill, pace and sensational finishin
- Series: Tales from the Pitch
- Author: Coninx, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1948585812
- Language: English
-
Imaginary Borders
$9.99 Add to cart“It won’t take you long to read this book, but it will linger in your heart and head for quite a while, and perhaps inspire you to join in the creative, blossoming movement to make this world work.” –… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Change Collective
- Author: Martinez, Xiuhtezcatl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0593094131
- Language: English
-
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Newbery Honor Book; National Book Award Winner)
$14.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER AND NEWBERY HONOR BOOK ● Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Read the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights fi
- Author: Hoose, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0312661053
- Language: English
-
Nice Jewish Girls
$21.99 Read moreThirty-six mini biographies of groundbreaking, outspoken, odds-defying Jewish women explore their fascinating lives, as well as the ways in which they were shaped by their heritage.
Probing the lives- Author: Merberg, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1950587096
- Language: English
-
Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American
$14.95 Add to cart“Jasminne Mendez didn’t speak English when she started kindergarten, and her young, white teacher thought the girl was deaf because in Louisiana, you were either Black or white. She had no idea that a… [more below]
- Author: Mendez, Jasminne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1558859446
- Language: English
-
Heroines, Rescuers, Rabbis, Spies: Unsung Women of the Holocaust
$19.95 Read moreDiscover nine ordinary women who took extraordinary measures to save lives during the Holocaust, resisting terror and torture while undercover or in hiding, in concentration camps, in forests, and in
- Author: Silberstein Swartz, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1772602620
- Language: English
-
Running on Broken Legs
$22.99 Add to cartTake undersized five-year-old farm girl Elinor, give her the polio that not only cripples her but also nearly kills her, then give her an impossible dream. In her childhood and again as a college stud
- Author: Young, Elinor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1646455746
- Language: English
-
Gamer Girls: 25 Women Who Built the Video Game Industry
$17.99 Add to cartDiscover the women behind the video games we love—the iconic games they created, the genres they invented, the studios and companies they built—and how they changed the industry forever.
Women have- Author: Kenney, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0762474564
- Language: English
-
Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic: A Comedian’s Guide to Life on the Spectrum
$11.95 Add to cartLike many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn’t “look” autistic. But, as he’s quick to point o
- Author: McCreary, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1773212575
- Language: English
-
The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile (Scholastic Focus)
$18.99 Read moreHighly acclaimed author Neal Bascomb brings his peerless research and fast-paced narrative style to a young adult adaptation of one of his most successful adult books of all time, The Perfect Mile, an
- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1338628461
- Language: English
