Category: Kids Biography

-- A library of the most important United States Supreme Court cases.
-- Examines the issues leading up to the case, the people involved in the case, and the present-day effects of the Court's decision.
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Greatest: Muhammad Ali

By: Ali/Myers, Walter

Price: $2.50

Publisher: September 2010

Seller ID: 108535

ISBN: 0590543431

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Neil Armstrong

By: Armstrong/Pocket Bios

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 377409

ISBN: 1250166195

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A colorfully illustrated, pocket-size picture book biography of the first man to walk on the moon, astronaut Neil Armstrong.

Neil Armstrong is an American astronaut most famous for being the first person to walk on the moon: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Before enrolling in the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962, Armstrong was an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War. Follow this extraordinary man's life and accomplishments, from childhood to space and back again.

Pocket Bios are full of personality, introducing readers to fascina...
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Who Was Neil Armstrong?

By: Armstrong/Who Was/Edwards, Rob

Price: $3.50

Seller ID: 413400

ISBN: 0448449072

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon and, to an audience of over 450 million people, proclaimed his step a "giant leap for mankind." This Eagle Scout built his own model planes as a little boy and then grew up to be a test pilot for experimental aircraft before becoming an astronaut. Over 80 black-and-white illustrations bring Armstrong's story to life.
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Joseph and Chico: The Life of Pope Benedict XVI as Told by a Cat

By: Benedict/Perego/Casagrande

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 365792

ISBN: 1586172522

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this beautifully illustrated book for children, Chico the cat describes the life of his best friend, Pope Benedict, in this authorised biography of the Pope for young people approved by the Vatican. Dear Children, here you will find a biography that is different than others because it is told by a cat and it is not every day a cat can consider the Holy Father his friend and sit down to write his life story, the Pope's personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Ganswein, says in the foreword. The Pope is known for his fondness of animals, especially cats, and Joseph and Chico is narrated by Chico, ...
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God Bless America: The Story of an Immigrant Named Irving Berlin

By: Berlin/Nuchu, Adah

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 388569

ISBN: 136801576X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

An inspiring portrait of an immigrant and the gift he gave his new home.

Persecuted as Jews, Izzy Baline and his family emigrated from Russia to New York, where he fell in love with his new country. He heard music everywhere and was full to bursting with his own. Izzy's thump-two-three, ting-a-ling, whee tunes soon brought him acclaim as the sought-after songwriter Irving Berlin. He ignited the imaginations of fellow countrymen and women with his Broadway and Hollywood numbers, crafting tunes that have become classics we still sing today.

But when darker times came and the nation ...
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Girl Named Faithful Plum: The True Story of a Dancer from China and How She Achieved Her Dream

By: Bernstein, Richard

Price: $2.50

Seller ID: 399611

ISBN: 0375871586

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 1977, when Zhongmei Lei was 11 years old, she learned that the prestigious Beijing Dance Academy was having open auditions. She'd already taken dance lessons, but everyone said a poor country girl would never get into the academy, especially without any connections in the Communist Party of the 1970s. But Zhongmei, whose name means Faithful Plum, persisted, traveled for three days and two nights to get to Beijing and eventually beat out 60,000 other girls. But getting in was easy compared to staying in, as Zhongmei soon learned. Without those all-important connections, she was just a little...
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Building a Dream Mary Bethune's School

By: Bethune/Kelso, Richard

Price: $2.50

Publisher: August 2015

Seller ID: 300615

ISBN: 0811480577

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

America's historical heroes are distinguished by their determination
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Who Is Cesar Chavez?

By: Chavez/Rau, Dana Meachen

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 412342

ISBN: 1101995602

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Learn more about Cesar Chavez, the famous Latino American civil rights activist.

When he was young, Cesar and his Mexican American family toiled in the fields as migrant farm workers. He knew all too well the hardships farm workers faced. His public-relations approach to unionism and aggressive but nonviolent tactics made the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. Along with Dolores Huerta, he cofounded the National Farmworkers Association. His dedication to his work earned him numerous friends and supporters, including Robert Kennedy and Jesse Jackson.
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We'll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente

By: Clemente/Engel, Trudie

Price: $3.00

Publisher: March 2012

Seller ID: 51736

ISBN: 0590688812

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight

By: Clinton/ Krull, Kathleen

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 371405

ISBN: 1481451138

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The beautifully illustrated picture book about Hillary Clinton--now revised and updated with brand-new material about her time as Secretary of State.

Before Hillary Clinton was in the running to be president, she was a young girl growing up outside Chicago who lost the election for student-body president. She wanted to be an astronaut, to soar as high as the stars above. She kept reaching up and up as she grew. There were people who told her no--most of them simply because she was a girl--but she didn't listen to them. There were people who didn't think she could do it. But she believed in...
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Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman

By: Coleman/Grimes, Nikki

Price: $2.00

Publisher: May 2014

Seller ID: 275923

ISBN: 0439573424

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?

By: Columbus/Fritz, Jean

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 370154

ISBN: 0698115805

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Newbery Honor author Jean Fritz takes us on a historic tour of Christopher Colubus "In a simple, short biography of Columbus she has been extraordinarily successful in extracting the essence of the man."--The Horn Book

Christopher Columbus thought he knew where he was going. He had planned to be the first to cross the ocean and reach the rich lands of the Indies. And when he returned to Spain, he insisted to everyone who would listen that he'd succeeded. But that wasn't exactly true. Little did Columbus know that his mistake would come to be known as America

"Fritz's un...
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Theodore Roosevelt (UPClose) (President's Day)

By: Cooper, Michael

Price: $3.50

Publisher: January 2018

Seller ID: 355362

ISBN: 0670011347

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Two-term president. Nobel Peace Prize winner. Commander of the Rough Riders. Avid conservationist. Adventurer. All of these and more, Theodore Roosevelt lived his long life to the fullest and left a legacy still remembered more than ninety years after his death. He started his long, successful political career at just twenty-three in New York State, and continued working in the public arena until well after his second term as president. Up Close biographer Michael C. Cooper takes readers beyond T.R.'s bold-faced achievements and explores the driving forces behind one of this country's greatest...
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Life in Motion (Young Readers Edition)

By: Copeland, Misty

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 396676

ISBN: 133824552X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Leonardo da Vinci (Giants of Science)

By: da Vinci/Krull, Kathleen

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 370767

ISBN: 0142408212

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. This book will change children's ideas of who Leonardo was and what it means to be a scientist.
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Who was Charles Darwin?

By: Darwin/ Hopkinson, Deborah

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 376162

ISBN: 0448437643

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting "useless" experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle. Darwin collected new creatures from the coasts of Africa, South America, and the Galapagos Islands, and expanded his groundbreaking ideas that would change people's understanding of the natural world. About 100 illustrations and a clear, exciting text will make Darwin and his theory of evolution an exciting discovery for every young reader.
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Boy Called Dickens, A

By: Dickens/Hopkins, Debora

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 409249

ISBN: 0375867325

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

For years Dickens kept the story of his own childhood a secret. Yet it is a story worth telling. For it helps us remember how much we all might lose when a child's dreams don't come true . . . As a child, Dickens was forced to live on his own and work long hours in a rat-infested blacking factory. Readers will be drawn into the winding streets of London, where they will learn how Dickens got the inspiration for many of his characters. The 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth was February 7, 2012, and this tale of his little-known boyhood is the perfect way to introduce kids to the great...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By: Douglass, Frederick

Price: $1.00

Seller ID: 394639

ISBN: 0439597900

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: Kids Biography