Category: Kids Biography

A remarkable true story from social justice advocate and national bestselling author Julissa Arce about her journey to belong in America while growing up undocumented in Texas.

Born in the picturesque town of Taxco, Mexico, Julissa Arce was left behind for months at a time with her two sisters, a nanny, and her grandma while her parents worked tirelessly in America in hopes of building a home and providing a better life for their children. That is, until her parents brought Julissa to Texas to live with them. From then on, Julissa secretly lived as an undocumented immigrant, went o...
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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: 483333

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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The Notorious Benedict Arnold

By: Arnold/Sheinkin, Steve

Price: $3.00

Publisher: September 2013

Seller ID: 431062

ISBN: 1250024609

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest Revolutionary War heroes.

Steve Sheinkin's accessible biography, The Notorious Benedict Arnold, introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing American Revolution battle scenes, and surprising twists, this is a gripping and true adventure tale from history.

Steve Sheinkin is the acclaimed author of many nonfiction works, including The Notorious Benedict...
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Girls Who Looked Under Rocks: The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists

By: Atkins, Jeannine

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 485272

ISBN: 1584690119

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Profiles the lives and influences of six female naturalists: Maria Sibylla Merian, Anna Botsford Comstock, Frances Hamerstrom, Rachel Carson, Miriam Rothschild, and Jane Goodall.
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Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci

By: Barretta, Gene

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Square Fish: June 2016

Seller ID: 480764

ISBN: 1250079608

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An 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 1887, Adolf Eugen Fick made the first pair of contact lenses; and in 1907, Paul Cornu built the first helicopter. But Leonardo da Vinci thought of all these ideas more than five hundred years ago
At once an artist, inventor, engineer, and scientist, da Vinci wrote and drew detailed descriptions of what would later become hang gliders, automobiles, robots, and much more. In...
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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 Was Sitting Bull?

By: Bull/Spinner, Stephanie

Price: $3.00

Publisher: August 2017

Seller ID: 485298

ISBN: 0448479656

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

No one knew the boy they called Jumping Badger would grow to become a great leader. Born on the banks of the Yellowstone River, Sitting Bull, as he was later called, was tribal chief and holy man of the Lakota Sioux tribe in a time of fierce conflict with the United States. As the government seized Native American lands, Sitting Bull relied on his military cunning and strong spirituality to drive forces out of his territory and ensure a future homeland for his people."
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Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Awards))

By: Byrd, Robert

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Dial Books: September 2012

Seller ID: 468874

ISBN: 0803737491

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Electric Ben is now a 2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Book Award Winner, a Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book, a Horn Fanfare Book, and a Robert F. Sibert Honor book
"a true standout...bright, witty, informative and cleverly organized as the man himself." - The New York Times
A true Renaissance man, Benjamin Franklin was the first American celebrity. In pictures and text, master artist Robert Byrd documents Franklin's numerous and diverse accomplishments, from framing the Constitution to creating bifocals. The witty, wise, and endlessly curious Franklin is...
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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

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Who is Hillary Clinton?

By: Clinton, Hillary

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 483332

ISBN: 0448490153

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Who Is Hillary Clinton? Readers of our New York Times best-selling series can find out now
At age fourteen, Hillary Clinton thought it would be thrilling to become an astronaut, so she sent an application to NASA. The reply was a flat out rejection: the space program didn't take women. It was a critical moment for the young girl, one that made her realize the world she lived in needed changing and that she had better try to make those changes happen. Clinton's life has been a thrilling series of firsts--First Lady of the US, then first First Lady to become a US...
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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

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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

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Manfish:A Story Of Jacques Cousteau (Pb)

By: Cousteau/BERNE, JENNIFER

Price: $3.00

Publisher: January 2008

Seller ID: 445034

ISBN: 0545265576

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Who Was Marie Curie?

By: Curie/Stine, Megan

Price: $2.50

Seller ID: 484754

ISBN: 044847896X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.
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Category: Kids Biography