Randolph Caldecott and the Story of the Caldecott Medal (Great Achievement Awards)
by John Bankston
Lucille Ball: Actress & Comedienne (Essential Lives) (Essential Lives Set 7)
by DeAnn Herringshaw
Physicians, Scientists, and Mathematicians of the Islamic World (Physicians, Scientists, and Mathematicians of the Islamic Wo)
Florence Nightingale (Young Reader's Christian Library)
by Kristi Lorene
Father Divine (Black Americans of Achievement (Hardcover))
by Robert Weisbrot
Meet Coretta Scott King (Civil Rights Leaders (Powerkids Press))
by Melody S Mis
The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls (Young Palmetto Books)
by Louise Meriwether
A brief biography of the slave who escaped to freedom with his family and other runaway slaves on a captured Confederate gunboat.
Beautiful Unicorn #1 (Unicorn Journal Notebook, #1)
by Adorable Notebooks
When Alex Morgan was eight years old, she dreamed of becoming an Olympian. In 2012, that dream came true when she helped the United States Women's National Team (USWNT) win the soccer gold medal at the Olympic Games in London, England. In 2015, Alex and her USWNT teammates beat Japan in the championship match to win the World Cup. Alex is also an author, a model, and much more. Read all about Alex's life and her path to soccer stardom.
Johnnie Cochran (Black Americans of Achievement - Legacy Edition)
by Gloria Blakely
Each title features: - In Their Own Words boxes offering selected quotations from the subject - Did You Know? boxes that highlight fascinating facts about each person - Chronology, suggestions for further reading, and a listing of related Web sites. - A final chapter that delves into the legacy of the subject's thoughts and deeds for new generations of black Americans.
Profiles the lives and work of the following twentieth-century American writers: John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison.
The Life and Times of Duke Ellington (Masters of Music: The World's Greatest Composers)
by John Bankston
Born to two uneducated farmers, Abraham Lincoln came from meager origins and had only 18 months of formal education. Yet, he worked himself up from farmer to respected lawyer to U.S. Congressman to the 16th U.S. president. He was a humanitarian who did not believe in killing animals for food. From the start of his political career, he fought for the abolition of slavery, and once elected president, he passed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring the freedom of any slaves in territories not un...
Describes the life of Abigail Adams and her successful fulfillment of such roles as wife, mother, teacher, correspondent, and First Lady.