Biographical

Presents the heroic sea evacuation of September 11, 2001 with narrative text and vivid illustrations--Categories: Children's Books Geography & CulturesM...

A Biography Of A Self-taught Scientist Who Photographed Thousands Of Individual Snowflakes In Order To Study Their Unique Formations. Jacqueline Briggs Mart...

for Twenty-five Years, Middle-grade Readers Have Been Moved By This Telling Of Sadako Sasaki's Spirited Battle With Leukemia. She Was Two-years-old When T...

Queen of Egypt at the age of eighteen, Cleopatra's passion was to untie the world under Egyptian rule. Legendary leaders risked their kingdoms to win her ...

Martin Luther’s son has a problem. What should young Hans Luther do when he grows up? How can he ever do anything important when he is constantly overshad...

A popular Scottish folk hero, Rob Roy is the nickname for Scottish hero Robert Roy MacGregor, who has been described as a Scottish Robin Hood.Categories: Ch...

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, based on her own childhood and later life, are still beloved classics almost a century after she began writing th...

An exciting account of the life of the warrior king who secured Scotland's independence from England.Categories: Children's Books HistoryBiographical

Meet forty-five dynamic women — from Martha Washington to America's newest first lady. Here is a captivating, photo-filled guide to the extraordinary wome...

Young Samuel Eaton has hardly slept from excitement! Today he will do a man's work--helping with his first rye harvest. But as his hands become blistered a...

This warmly told biography of our sixteenth president is enriched by many authentic but seldom told anecdotes and complemented by bold color illustrations ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

In This Special Illustrated Edition Of The #1 New York Times Bestselling Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power By Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Jon Meacham, Yo...

"My story is something I like to share with others, to show people that with enough belief in yourself and what you can accomplish, anything is possible."â...

Helen Keller was only six years old when she met Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. The meeting was an eventful one,marking the begi...

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 Ea...

Join the band on their journey to superstardom. This is the only official book from 1D charting their journey since 2012—from the places they visited and...

Recreates The Childhood Of The Woman Traditionally Remembered As The Maker Of The First American Flag, Which Was Secretly Presented To General George Washin...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is A Trailblazer. A Fighter. A Public Servant Who Has Dedicated Her Life To The Pursuit Of Equality. When Ruth Was A Young Girl, Her Mot...

Presents The Life Of The First Female Pilot To Fly Solo Across The Atlantic Ocean, Who Mysteriously Disappeared In 1937 While Attempting To Fly Around The W...

We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this lively, collectible picture book biography series from New York Times bestselling author Brad ...

Born Into Slavery, Young Harriet Tubman Knew Only Hard Work And Hunger. Escape Seemed Impossible--certainly Dangerous. Yet Harriet Did Escape North, By The...

In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burni...

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px Calibri} History comes alive for kids like no textbook can in this epic account of the American Civil W...

From his childhood encounters with racial prejudice to the Montgomery bus boycott and the Voting Rights drive, the private side of Martin Luther King's life...

he Remained Firmly In The Center Of The Action And At The Center Of Controversy. That’s What Made General George S. Patton America’s Most Colorful Military ...

As The Last Pharaoh Of Ancient Egypt, I Ruled Alone Without The Help Of My Husband. I Was A Powerful And Courageous Leader, And I Passionately Loved My Peop...

“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...

Elementary Science - Sound and Sound Waves\What if your science experiments were so interesting that even an Emperor wanted to know more?\In 1806, scientist...

This board book edition of Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World by New York Times bestselling author Vashti Harrison is a beautiful first book...

She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their parallel journey through World War II. Helen Waterford ...

“It does a man no good to be free until he learns how to live.” These were the words of Amos Fortune, born the son of a king of the At-mun-shi tribe in A...

The pioneer spirit lives on... Readers around the world know and love Laura, the little girl born in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and raised in covered wagon...

From The Legendary Civil Rights Activist And Author Of The Million-copy Selling Warriors Don't Cry Comes A Powerful, Timely New Memoir About Growing Up In T...

Witness the life of a powerful Egyptian ruler. Vivid storytelling brings the past to life. Exciting eyewitness accounts make you feel like part of the actio...

This Beautifully Illustrated Book Showcases Women Who Changed The World. Featuring 18 Trailblazing Black Women In American History, Dream Big, Little Leader...

Tells The Story Of Amelia Earhart's Life As A Child, A Woman, And A Pilot, And Describes The Search For Her Missing Plane. Navigating History -- July 2, 193...

A young readers' edition of an important and inspiring true story of hope and survival during World War II.Fourteen-year-old Lisa Jura was a musical prodi...

Presents An Illustrated Biography Of The Feminist Icon And Legal Pioneer Who Has Changed The World, Especially In The Realms Of Gender Equality And Civil Ri...

This New York Times Bestselling picture book biography series by Brad Meltzer has an inspiring message: We can all be heroes. Jackie Robinson always loved ...

A young reader's adaptation of Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights, the memoir of activist and trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree, by Katie McCabe. R...

THE DRUMMER BOY'S BATTLE, Introducing Florence Nightingale -- After their father dies, Robbie Robinson and his older brother, Peter, join the British army i...

Ella Fitzgerald began her life as a singer on the stage of the Apollo Theater when she was just seventeen years old. Her rich voice and vocal innovations br...