Grant Hill (Sports Stars (Children's Press Cloth)) (Sports Stars (Children's Press Paper))
by Mark Stewart
Examines the career of the star basketball player Grant Hill, from his childhood to his pro career with the Detroit Pistons.
As Long as the Rivers Flow
by Paula Gunn Allen and Patricia Clark Smith
Through original artwork by the renowned artist Tomie dePaola-a longtime aficionado of Frida Kahlo's work-as well as beautiful reproductions of Kahlo's paintings, this latest Smart About book explores the creative, imaginative world of Mexico's most celebrated female artist.
Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Candlewick Biographies (Candlewick Biographies)
by Orgill Roxane and Qualls Sean
“Crackles with tension and verve. . . . An unforgettable portrait of an artist whose faith in herself carried her when little else did.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) With lively prose, Roxane Orgill follows the gutsy Ella Fitzgerald from her schoolgirl days, orphaned and hungry, dancing and singing for loose change, to amateur night at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, all the way to her number-one radio hit “A-Tisket, A-Tasket.” Jazzy mixed-media art by illustrator Sean Qualls brings the singer’...
Sunisa Lee (My Early Library: My Itty-Bitty Bio)
by Virginia Loh-Hagan
From director, producer, and screenwriter Steven Spielberg to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, read about twenty of the most influential Jewish Americans in history!From its beginnings, America, founded on religious freedom, has been a land of opportunity for Jews, socially, economically, and spiritually, writes Rabbi Malka Drucker in introducing twenty compelling individuals who have enriched our country by their achievements. In areas including science, sports, filmmaking, and civil...
John Danny Olivas (Great Hispanic and Latino Americans)
by Christine Juarez
A Picture Book of George Washington Carver (Picture Book Biographies) (Picture Book Biography)
by David A Adler
A brief biography of the African American scientist who overcame tremendous hardship to make unusual and important discoveries in the field of agriculture.
Oprah Winfrey (Gente Que Hay Que Conocer ) (People to Know S.)
by Jonatha A Brown
Super Sports Star Daunte Culpepper (Super Sports Star)
by Stew Thornley
A Hunger for Learning (A creative minds biography)
by Gwenyth Swain
Squanto and the First Thanksgiving (Holiday on My Own Books (Hardcover)) (On My Own. S.)
by Joyce K Kessel
Describes how the Indian Squanto, an English-speaking Christian and former slave, whose village had been wiped out by smallpox, taught the Pilgrims the skills they needed to survive the harsh Massachusetts winter.
"Raintree Freestyle" is a new, eye-catching range of colourful non-fiction books for the less able and reluctant reader, aged between 11 and 14 years. Designed for students with a reading age of 8 and 9 years old, these high interest books will enable readers to encounter curriculum-linked topics at an appropriate reading level. This high interest series looks at the life and work of popular figures in TV, music and film. Using a 'how they got famous' approach, each title reveals stories and exa...
Nat Love (Grandes Personajes en la Historia de los Estados Unidos)
by Tracie Egan
African-American Inventors II (Short Biographies)
by Stanley P Jones, Jetty Kahn, Susan Henderson, Fred Amram, Susan K Henderson, L Octavia Tripp, Jetty St John, and Margo McLoone
Yao Ming (Checkerboard Biography Library) (Awesome Athletes Set III)
by Lydia Pyle
Thurgood Marshall & Supreme (Cornerstones of Freedom (Library))
by Deborah Kent
Narrates the life of the first African-American to serve as a judge on the United States Supreme Court.