Category: Biographies
The Hospital: How I Survived the Secret Child Experiments at Aston Hall
“We were an experiment. We had no rights, no love, nothing. Just a piece of meat for someone to play with.” Barbara O’Hare was just 12 years old when
World History Biographies: Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius Who Defined the Renaissance (National Geographic World History Biographies)
“This work is an attractive and friendly resource for students… The strengths of this biography are its attractive illustrations, the time line of Da Vinci’s life across the bottom
Bill and Melinda Gates (True Books: Biographies)
Bill Gates’ innovations at Microsoft have made him one of the most influential and well-known figures in the history of personal computers. Along with his wife, Melinda, he has
Sweet Child of Mine: How I Lost My Son to Guns N’ Roses
Guns N’ Roses was quickly heralded as the greatest rock n roll band on the planet. During the late 80’s and 90’s the hedonistic rock gods Axl, Slash, Izzy,
Neil Armstrong: Young Flyer (Childhood of Famous Americans)
This series of biographies, longtime favorites of young readers, now add the first new titles in over 20 years. Rich or poor, great American men and women lived out
Mae Jemison (You Should Meet)
Blast off into space and get to know Mae Jemison—the first African-American woman to ever go to space—with this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a new series
You Look Like That Girl: A Child Actor Stops Pretending and Finally Grows Up
At the age of twenty-two, Lisa Jakub had what she was supposed to want: she was a working actor in Los Angeles. She had more than forty movies and
Jars of Hope: How One Woman Helped Save 2,500 Children During the Holocaust (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books)
Amid the horrors of World War II, Irena Sendler was an unlikely and unsung hero. While many people lived in fear of the Nazis, Irena defied them, even though
First Families: The Impact of the White House on Their Lives
What is it like to be America’s First Family? In this wonderfully engaging book, Bonnie Angelo, Time correspondent and acclaimed author of First Mothers, probes two hundred years of