Biographies

Winner of the Christopher Award An ILA-CBC Children’s Choices Book A NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Book Welles Crowther did not see himself as hero....

Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and...

Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman Reflects On Growing Up With His Award-winning Father, Sid Fleischman, And Details His Own Path To Becoming A Writer--Catego...

“Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief,” this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holoc...

Discover today’s greatest hockey stars!For over thirty years kids (and their parents) have looked forward to Paul Romanuk’s annual Hockey Superstars boo...

the Beady Black Eyes Of Two Seahorses Peek Out Of A Hiding Place In Coral Reef. Father Seahorse And His Mate Wrap Their Monkey—like Tails Around Small Bra...

Traces The Achievements Of The Celebrated Supreme Court Justice Through The Lens Of Her Many Famous Acts Of Civil Disagreement Against Inequality, Unfair Tr...

Meet Viola Desmond, community leader and early civil rights trailblazer!On the night of November 8th 1946, Nova Scotia businesswoman Viola Desmond stood up ...

When fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone's crops began to fail. Without enough money for food, let alone sc...

Laura Ingalls's story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with he...

Meet One Of History's Greatest Figures In This Adorable Board Book With An Animal Twist! Famous Meowxican Painter Frida Catlo Was A Pioneer For Female Artis...

In this beautiful nonfiction biography, a Robert F. Sibert Medal winner, the Newbery Honor–winning author Joyce Sidman introduces readers to one of the fi...

Meet Artist Norman Rockwell!Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, a...

Meet Artist Salvador Dali!Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and...

One of America's most beloved cooks, Food Network personality and restaurateur, Paula Deen invites you to share in her favorite dishes and memories from ...

Meet Artist Leonardo da Vinci!Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos,...

Meet Artist Pablo Picasso!Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and...

This title unwraps the life of Ruth's Chris Steak House founder Ruth Fertel! Readers will follow Fertel's journey from her early work as a teacher and horse...

Bill Gates, Born In Seattle, Washington, In 1955, Is An American Business Magnate, Investor, Philanthropist, And Author. In This Who Was...? Biography, Chil...

One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric...

children's Author Cynthia Rylant Describes Her Life And Writing Process And How They Are Interwoven. children's Literature in Best Wishes Cynthia Rylant Co...

what Was Isaac Newton Like? Secretive, Vindictive, Withdrawn, Obsessive, And, Oh, Yes, Brilliant. His Imagination Was So Large That, Just By Thinking On It...

An exciting, behind-the scenes look at P.K. Subban ― a superstar both on and off the ice!From his earliest days, P.K. (short for Pernell-Karl) has been a ...

Introduces the traditional daily life of the Native nations who lived in longhouses and shared a common way of life.Categories: Children's Books Geography &...

Crisp, clear, full-color photographs show all the fascinating machines and earthmovers found at a construction site. Even the very youngest readers will w...

Handpicked by Amazon kids’ books editor, Seira Wilson, for Prime Book Box – a children’s subscription that inspires a love of reading.Supreme Court J...

Canada is the world's second largest country, but Canadians are second to none. Many of our extraordinary men, women and children have been recognized world...

A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) is known for ...

The inspirational real-life stories of superstar athletes Serena and Venus Williams, Simone Biles, Carli Lloyd, and more! For sports fans, aspiring athlete...

Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that convert...

Looks Closely At Anne Frank's Life Before The Secret Annex, What Life Was Like In Hiding From The Nazis, And The Legacy Of Her Diary. Who Was Anne Frank? --...

Did you know that Bell's amazing invention--the telephone--stemmed from his work on teaching the deaf? Both his mother and wife were deaf. Or, did you know ...

Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married anoth...

at Age Two, Helen Keller Became Deaf And Blind. She Lived In A World Of Silence And Darkness And She Spent The Rest Of Her Life Struggling To Break Throug...

Over a long, turbulent life, Picasso continually discovered new ways of seeing the world and translating it into art. A restless genius, he went through a...

No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Includi...

In December of 1994, twelve-year-old Iqbal Masih was honored as a hero. Just two years earlier, he had been a slave, condemned to a lifetime of bonded labo...

Oprah Winfrey has been called the Queen of All Media for good reason-during her more than thirty-year career, she has left an indelible mark on radio, telev...

long Ago, A Little Girl Named Laura Ingalls Lived In A Little House In The Big Woods Of Wisconsin With Her Pa, Her Ma, Her Sisters, Mary And Carrie, And T...

About the Author\Raina Telgemeier est une auteure-illustratrice à succès international. Elle a gagné le prix Eisner et le prix Bédélys, à deux reprise...

A little Inuit boy discovers there's room for himself and his baby sister on their mother's lap. A small Eskimo boy discovers tha...

The train tracks ran right by Bigmama's house in Cottondale, and the children were warned to stay off the tracks. But one night they were late, and the tr...

Examines The Life And Accomplishments Of Computer Industry Pioneer Steve Jobs, A Founder Of Apple Computer, Inc.Categories: Children's Books Education &...

Winner of the Caldecott Medal, this stunningly illustrated book depicts Louis Bleriot's historic first cross-Channel flight.“Factually accurate, yes-but a...

Amelia Earhart was a woman of many "firsts." In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1935, she also became the first...

Follows The Life Of Walt Disney From His Boyhood On A Missouri Farm Through His Struggles As A Young Animator To His Building Of A Motion Picture And Amusem...

For African American Women, The Fight For The Right To Vote Was Only One Battle. An Eye-opening Book That Tells The Important, Overlooked Story Of Black Wom...

The Globetrotting Naturalists Of The Eighteenth Century Were The Geeks Of Their Day: Innovators And Explorers Who Lived At The Intersection Of Science And C...