Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography

Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about Kamala Harris's life with this fact-filled nonfiction reader, carefully levelled to help children progress.

In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Freddie Mercury, the trailblazing musician who rocked the world!

If you could go back in time and talk to famous rulers from the past, what would you ask?

George Washington Carver was born into the violent era of slavery, yet he had big ideas.

Emily Dickinson wrote short, often enigmatic poems that are widely read and quoted by people of every age.

Nikola Tesla was a physicist, scientist, electrical engineer, and world-renowned inventor whose accomplishments faded into oblivion after his death in 1943.

Winner of the 2019 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science BookAlexander Graham Bell invented not only the telephone, but also early versions of the phonograph, the metal detector, airplanes, and hydrofoil boats.

Fueled by an unyielding feminist conviction, and against a tide of hostility, on December 3, 1851, Myrtilla Miner, an educator and abolitionist, opened the School for Colored Girls-the only school in Washington, DC, dedicated to training African American students to be teachers.

Rachel Carson was an American biologist, conservationist, science and nature writer, and catalyst of the modern environmental movement.

On December 21, 1848, Ellen Craft and her husband, William, slipped out into the cold, dark night and took their first steps towards freedom.

As the young daughter of a powerful Powhatan leader, Pocahontas befriended the English settlers in Jamestown, Virginia.

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.

Trapped in silence and darkness, Helen Keller longed to communicate with the world.

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.