James Meredith and School Desegregation (Gateway civil rights)
by Dan Elish
Emmitt Smith (Sports Achievers Biographies) (Lerner Sports Achievers (Paperback))
by Stew Thornley
Profiles the star running back who helped the Dallas Cowboys win Super Bowls in 1993, 1994, and 1996.
Dexter Jackson and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Super Bowl Superstars)
by Michael Sandler
Portraits of African-American Heroes
by Tonya Bolden and Ansel Pitcairn
Louis Armstrong and the Jazz Age (Cornerstones of Freedom: Second (Library))
by Dan Elish
Traces the life and career, including the political activities, of the famous Chilean poet.
George Washington Carver (Real Readers) (Real Readers Series: Level Blue)
by Miena Benitez and Mirna Benitez
A biography of the agriculturist for beginning readers, chronicling his struggle to get an education, his work at the Tuskegee Institute, and how he helped popularize peanuts as a cash crop in the South. Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the African American scientist who promoted the idea of crop rotation and found many uses for peanuts.
Looks at the career of this basketball star who, in spite of playing in the shadow of Michael Jordan, has become one of the greatest all-around performers in the sport's history.
Jackie Robinson Breaks Barriers (Perspectives on American Progress)
by Duchess, Ph.D. Harris
Ken Griffey, Jr., the Kid (Sports Stars (Children's Press Cloth))
by Howard Reiser
General relativity is discussed in this book at a level appropriate to undergraduate students of physics and astronomy. It describes concepts and experimental results, and provides a succinct account of formalism. A brief review of special relativity is followed by a discussion of the equivalence principle and its implications. Other topics covered include concepts of curvature and the Schwarzschild metric, tests of the general theory, black holes and their properties, gravitational radiation...
A Reader's Guide to Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (Multicultural Literature)
by Heather Lee Schroeder
"An introduction to Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis for high school students, which includes biographical background on the author, explanations of various literary devices and techniques, and literary criticism for the novice reader"--Provided by publisher.
Since the publication of her first book, ""The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts"", Maxine Hong Kingston has been a presence on the literary scene. With a mix of autobiography, fiction, and Chinese myths and legends, Kingston's work reflects her cultural heritage and upbringing. But her success as a writer wasn't guaranteed. As a young girl growing up the daughter of Chinese Immigrants in Stockton, California, Kingston initially found public school so challenging that she withdre...