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A Boy Named FDR: How Franklin D. Roosevelt Grew Up To Change America
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Author Kathleen Krull writes a very flattering biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s early life. The story stops just as Roosevelt enters politics. Krull begins by providing an introduction to...
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A Picture Book of Cesar Chavez
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Cesar Chavez started life on a farm but the Great Depression took that from his family and they were forced to take to the road as migrant workers. Chavez...
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Airborne A Photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright
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Where are the heroes of today? Does your child have a true hero? Someone of character and excellence as opposed to someone of celebrity and glitter? This is the...
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Alexander Hamilton: The Outsider
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Alexander Hamilton was one of the important forefathers of the United States of America but he did not begin his life on that continent. In fact, he was born...
Picture Book
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All Star! Honus Wagner and the Most Famous Baseball Card Ever
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Reluctant Reader
"In July 2007 a rare baseball card was sold at auction for almost three million dollars. The player on the card was...the most famous shortstop baseball has ever...
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Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared To Dream
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Quick quiz: Which astronaut had the most hours in the air as a pilot in the early 1960's? (Play the Jeopardy music in your head.) Was...
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Becoming Billie Holiday
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In ninety-seven poems using the titles from Billie Holiday's song list, the first twenty-five years of Billie Holiday's life are celebrated. It wasn't always an easy life and...
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Before they Were Famous
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Michaelangelo wasn't always the successful sculptor. In fact when he was young he would skip school to draw. This book takes a short look at the lives of seven...
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Beyond Jupiter The Story of Planetary Astronomer Heidi Hammel (Women's Adventures in Science)
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Okay, quick... name two female American astronomers! Okay, name one female American astronomer! Let me introduce you to Heidi Hammel who "uses the world's most powerful telescopes...
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Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman
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Reluctant Reader
Has there always been a Superman? It seems that way but the true story is Superman was born from the imaginations of two guys,...
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Buddha
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This book is a beautiful way to introduce children to a religion that may be new to them. This is the life story of Buddha along with some information...
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
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Elementary school children know the name of Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat on a bus and is revered for her courage in leading the resistance...
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Coretta Scott
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Coretta Scott King's life was a journey that began in the times when she walked five miles to school with her siblings while a "white school bus left a...
Picture Book
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Dalai Lama: Foreword by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, The
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What a wonderful way to introduce children to the idea of the Dalai Lama and the politics of Tibet. Beautiful.
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Dive! My Adventures in the Deep Frontier (My Adventures)
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Everyone knows that we send our astronauts out into space, but how many people know that an aquanaut goes deep into the ocean? You’ve heard of the International...
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Django: World's Greatest Jazz Guitarist
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"When I think about the best guitar players ever, the first name that comes to mind is Django Reinhardt," says the great Willie Nelson. Django was born into a...
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Down the Colorado John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer
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John Wesley Powell, Wes, grew up as the son of a minister. He fled school at an early age because of bullying and ended up being tutored by a...
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Drawing From Memory
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The single figure on the book cover to DRAWING FROM MEMORY by Caldecott Medal winner Allen Say shows a young man floating up – uplifted. When twelve year old...
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Eleanor, Quiet No More
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There are some women from our past who need to be part of our present and our future. Eleanor Roosevelt is one of them. She had a father who...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World
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ISBN: 978-0805082937
Reviewed by: Jane Behrens, Librarian, Iowa, USA
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