Category: Biographies

Bringing the biggest life stories to the smallest readers. President Abraham Lincoln thought slavery was wrong. He fought a war to hold the country together and to make it

Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unstable at times. But

Learn more about Cesar Chavez, the famous Latino American civil rights activist. When he was young, Cesar and his Mexican American family toiled in the fields as migrant farm

The inspiring, true story of Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani girl who stands up and speaks out for every child’s right to education. Though she and two of her

What biography series is complete without a title on the current U.S. President: Barack Obama? The election of an African American president was truly a monumental day in American

We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times Bestselling picture book biography series from historian and author Brad Meltzer. Even when he was

Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married another promising young

Discover the world of one of America’s most celebrated abolitionists, writers, and orators in this inspirational biography of Frederick Douglass. Kids will learn about his life, achievements, and the

A newly updated leveled reader about the first African American president of the United States, for children who are ready to read on their own.   A Step 3