Info Buzz: Black History: Maya Angelou (Info Buzz: Black History)
by Izzi Howell
Find out about the life of poet and writer Maya Angelou and her work as an activist in the US civil rights movement. The book has photographs and a simple text suitable for young children. For children following Book Bands, it is suitable for those reading at band 9, gold.The Info Buzz series, for age 5+, helps children develop their knowledge and understanding of the world by covering a wide range of topics in a fun, colourful and interactive way. The books have a lively design, engaging text a...
A biography of Jane Yolen, a prolific and well-known writer of juvenile literature.
The Library of Congress (We the People (Compass Point Books Hardcover))
by Andrew Santella
Ten Terrific Authors for Teens (Collective Biographies)
by Christine M Hill
Nikki Giovanni (African-American Biographies (Enslow))
by Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Profiles the life of Nikki Giovanni, from her childhood in Knoxville and Cincinnati to her career as an outspoken, influential, award-winning poet.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Snapshots Images of People & Places in History )
by Elizabeth MacLeod
Lucy Maud Montgomery believed that one day she would be taken seriously as a writer. Despite the many obstacles she faced throughout her life, Montgomery not only earned a good living as a writer, but also became famous for it. Anne of Green Gables is one of the most popular books ever written and has been translated into over 20 languages, garnering Montgomery worldwide recognition and appeal. Weaving the real events of her life into the fabric of her fiction using photographs, excerpts from...
The Alcatraz Escape (The Book Scavenger)
by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Legendary literary game-maker Garrison Griswold is back in action - this time with “Unlock the Rock,” an extravaganza on Alcatraz Island. But just as the fun starts to take off for Emily and James, important items from Griswold’s game begin to disappear, and someone is framing Emily's brother Matthew as the criminal. As the friends jump from one clue to the next, they discover a web of connections between the stolen items and a tragic nineteenth century mystery involving Harriet Beecher Stowe. T...
We are resilience. We are hope. We are dreamers. Yuyi Morales brought her hopes, her passion, her strength, and her stories with her, when she came to the United States in 1994 with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed. From the author-illustrator of Bright Star, Dreamers is a celebration of making your home with the things you always carry: your resilience, your dreams, your hopes and history. It's the story of finding your way in a...
Garth Williams (Checkerboard Biography Library) (Children's Illustrators)
by Jill C Wheeler
From Costa Award-winner Hilary McKay comes The Time of Green Magic: a beautiful, spell-binding novel about family, magic, an old house and a mysterious visitor . . .Abi and her two step-brothers, Max and Louis, find that strange things happen when they are alone in their eerie, ivy-covered new house.Abi, reading alone, finds herself tumbling deep into books, while Louis summons a startling guest through his bedroom window. Even Max has started to see shapes in the shadows . . .Their busy parents...
Swept up in the Gold Rush of 1897, young Jack London headed north to strike it rich in the Klondike and discovered something more precious than gold the seeds of the stories that would flower into his classic novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang, and timeless short stories such as "To Build A Fire." The narrative follows London as he treks up the ruthless Chilkoot Trail, survives an avalanche, braves the lethal Whitehorse Rapids, and conquers many more dangers of the Yukon along his quest...
A brief biography of the writer of such acclaimed books as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "James and the Giant Peach," and "Matilda."