Biography

Biography - recounts a real person's life

The following books were shared in class and available in the Curriculum Library - 2nd floor Myers Library.

Scientists/Mathematicians: The Man who went to the Far Side of the Moon - Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut; Bea Uusma Schyffert One Giant Leap - Neil Armstrong; Don Brown Almost Astronauts, 13 women who dared to dream; Tanya Lee Stone Marie Curie; Lisa Wade McCormick Listening to Crickets - Rachel Carlson; Candice F. Ransom Blockhead, the life of Fibonacci; Joseph D'Agnese Up, Up, and Away! Mae Jemison; Howard Gutner Hispanic Scientists

Abolitionists/Civil Rights Leaders: Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride; Andrea Davis Pinkney An Apple for Harriet Tubman; Glennette Tilley Turner Through My Eyes; Ruby Bridges I've Seen the Promised Land - Martin Luther King; Walter Dean Myers Martin's Big Words - Doreen Rappoport (Caldecott Honor) A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. - David Adler

Children's Authors: Laura's Album - Laura Ingalls Wilder; William Anderson My Life in Dog Years - Gary Paulsen 26 Fairmount Avenue - Tomie de Paola (Newbery Honor) Joseph Bruchac; Michelle Parker-Rock

Musicians/Artists Piano Starts Here - Art Tatum; Robert Andrew Parker Hot Jazz Special; Jonny Hannah Leonardo da Vinci for Kids - Janis Herbert

Explorers I, Matthew Henson, Polar Explorer; Carole Boston Weatherford I am Sacajawea, I am York; Claire Rudolf Murphy Where do you think you're going, Christopher Columbus?; Jean Fritz

Revolutionaries And Then what Happened Paul Revere? - Jean Fritz Independent Dames, What you never knew about the women and girls of the American Revolution; Laurie Halse Anderson

American Presidents and First Ladies: George Did It - George Washington; Suzanne Tripp Jurmain Abe's Honest Words - Abraham Lincoln; Doreen Rappaport Lincoln, A Photobiography - Abraham Lincoln; Russell Freedman Barack - Barack Obama - Jonah Winter Michelle Obama; David Bergen Brophy

Athletes: A Nation's Hope - Joe Louis; Matt de la Pena Basketball Belles - Sue Macy Wilma Unlimited - Wilma Rudolph; Kathleen Krull The Greatest - Muhammed Ali; Walter Dean Myers

World War II: Quiet Hero - The Ira Hayes Story; S.D. Nelson The Cat with the Yellow Star, Coming of age in Terezin; Susan Goldman Rubin Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl

Women's History Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote; Linda Arms White