Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography

The second volume in the True Tales for Young Readers series, this short biography of the civil rights leader is intended for middle school and high school readers.

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In 1946, six-year-old Wilma Rudolph dreamed of walking and playing like other children, but a sickness called polio had damaged her left leg.

As a successful former slave, Clara Brown used her money to help other freed slaves get a new start in life.

When the Pilgrims landed near Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620 they were unprepared for the challenges they would face.

On January 20, 1986, church bells rang in New York City, world leaders gathered in Atlanta, and thousands paraded in Chicago.

Johnny Moore watched as the amazing airplane moved along the track.

Fifteen-year-old Paul Jennings looked out the window of the President's House.

Kate stared at the rickety wooden bridge.

Fourteen-year-old John Darragh was a spy.

In 1946, six-year-old Wilma Rudolph dreamed of walking and playing like other children, but a sickness called polio had damaged her left leg.

Growing up in Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu learned from her mother how to care for and give to those who had less than she did.

Dian Fossey was fascinated with the sad plight of the mountain gorilla and went to Africa.

As a successful former slave, Clara Brown used her money to help other freed slaves get a new start in life.

Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York in 1797 or 1798.

As a small boy, Charles Dickens worked in a dark, musty London warehouse, pasting labels onto pots of boot polish.

Taken from her family in Africa at the age of seven, Phillis Wheatley arrived in Boston as a slave in 1761.

Growing up in a Quaker family in the South in 1830, Levi Coffin did not support slavery, but he was exposed to its atrocities.

In 1847 an eighteen-year-old immigrant arrived in New York.

Samuel Clemens grew up in a child's paradise--Hannibal, Missouri.

From the time she was a very young girl, Rachel Carson felt a bond with nature.

Although he is credited with changing history through his invention of printing, Johann Gutenberg remains mysterious.

When George Eastman decided to make photography his hobby, "e;simple"e; was hardly the word to describe the pastime.

Milton Hershey loved candy.

Growing up in China as the child of American missionaries, Pearl read and listened to stories from both the East and the West.

Robert Fulton was an American inventor born in 1765.

Abbie was afraid.

Sarah Winnemucca, a Northern Plains Indian, lived in the last half of the nineteenth century when white settlers were moving west into land the Paiutes had inhabited for thousands of years.

Mary Jemison was born in 1743 as her parents emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania.

Cyrus McCormick patented and manufactured the reaper, an important 19th century invention that dramatically improved the efficiency of wheat farming.

Famous 19th century composer Ludwig van Beethoven compsed hundreds of works in his lifetime, including the well-known Moonlight Sonata and Symphony No.

In April 1607, twelve-year-old Sam Collier and a group of Englishmen landed in North America.

A teacher and principal, a lawyer, an entertainer, a diplomat, and a writer, James Weldon Johnson spent his entire life working to help African Americans gain the rights and respect they deserved.

The author of such poems as I, To; Sing America; and The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes combined his experiences and emotions with the rhythms and themes he found in jazz music to create an exciting new style of poetry.

America's sixth president and son of America's second president, John Quincy Adams lived an extraordinary life.

When nine-year-old Booker T.

Taking a rare look beyond the myths and legends surrounding Sacagawea's life, this extraordinary illustrated history recounts the known facts about a remarkable women and her contribution to one of America's greatest journeys of exploration.

The first African American to break the color barrier in modern major league baseball, Jackie Robinson was one of the greatest players of all time.

The year was 1569 and the place was Stratford-on-Avon.

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For the first twenty-eight years of her life.

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet had a sharp mind and a great determination to make a difference in the world.

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Laurie Halse Anderson's path to writing for young adult readers was indirect, unintentional, and difficult.

*As featured in The New York Times*From the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of King Charles.

*As featured in The New York Times*From the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of King Charles.

Sisters against Slavery recounts the lives of Sarah Grimke and Angelica Grimke Weld.

Eleanor Roosevelt is perhaps best known for her role as First Lady, wife to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

In 1877 a young man developed a way to reproduce sounds so they could be heard again and again.