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What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!
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Deborah Heiligman · 42 pages
Most people think of mathematicians as solitary, working away in isolation. And, it's true, many of them do. But Paul Erdos never followed the usual path. At the age of four, he could ask you when you were born and then calculate the number of seconds you had been alive in his head. But he didn't learn to butter his own bread until he turned twenty. Instead, he traveled around the world, from one
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909
Alice Provensen, Martin Provensen · 39 pages
A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which crossed the English Channel in thirty-seven minutes in the early 1900's.
Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White
Melissa Sweet · 176 pages
In this stunning, first-ever fully-illustrated biography of legendary author E.B. White, Sibert medalist and Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet uses White's letters, photos, and mementos, as well as her original collaged art, to tell the true story of one of the most beloved authors of all time.
Queen of the Falls
Chris Van Allsburg · 40 pages
GR 3-5. Be transported back to 1901 and meet Annie Edson Taylor. When her charm school closes Annie needs to find a way to earn money. She has a great idea after reading a newspaper article about the throngs that go to Niagara Falls each summer. With determination of steel, this 62-year old lady sets out to design and build a barrel, in which she’ll plunge over Niagara Falls, thus realizing he
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo · 212 pages
"To the rebel girls of the world: dream bigger, aim higher, fight harder, and, when in doubt, remember you are right." -- Introduction "Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls reinvents fairy tales, inspiring girls with the stories of 100 heroic women from Elizabeth I to Serena Williams. Illustrated by 60 female artists from every corner of the globe, this is the most-funded original book in the histo
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
Debbie Levy · 40 pages
Traces the achievements of the celebrated Supreme Court justice through the lens of her many famous acts of civil disagreement against inequality, unfair treatment, and human rights injustice.
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
Kathleen Krull · 44 pages
A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.
Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
Renee Watson · 40 pages
Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
Sharon Robinson
As a testament to his courage, Jackie Robinson's daughter shares memories of him, from his baseball career to the day he tests the ice for her, her brothers, and their friends.
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
Jennifer Fisher Bryant
On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein
Jennifer Berne · 56 pages
Anything But Ordinary Addie: The True Story of Adelaide Herrmann, Queen of Magic
Mara Rockliff
Some girls are perfectly happy never doing anything out of the ordinary. But Addie was anything but ordinary. She longed for thrills and excitement! At a time when a young lady appearing onstage was considered most unusual, Addie defied convention and became a dancer. And when she married the world-famous magician Herrmann the Great, she knew she had to be part of his show. Addie wanted toshock an
The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon
Jacqueline Davies · 32 pages
As a boy, John James Audubon loved to watch birds. In 1804, at the age of eighteen, he moved from his home in France to Pennsylvania. There he took a particular interest in peewee flycatchers. While observing these birds, John James became determined to answer a pair of two-thousand-year-old questions: Where do small birds go in the winter, and do they return to the same nest in the spring?
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine
Laurie Wallmark · 38 pages
Offers an illustrated telling of the story of Ada Byron Lovelace, from her early creative fascination with mathematics and science and her devastating bout with measles, to the ground-breaking algorithm she wrote for Charles Babbage's analytical engine.
Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland
Tomie dePaola · 32 pages
Relates the life and legends of Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein
Don Brown · 32 pages
An introduction to the work and early life of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.
Eleanor
Barbara Cooney · 32 pages
Presents the childhood of Eleanor Roosevelt, who married a president of the United States and became known as a great humanitarian.
The Story of Ruby Bridges
Robert Coles · 32 pages
For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
Benjamin Franklin
Ingri d'Aulaire · 48 pages
A biography of the witty author, scientist, and statesman who helped with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and became the first ambassador of the United States of America.
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai (Frances Foster Books)
Claire A. Nivola · 32 pages