Author: Liza Schafer
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590494748
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Ben Franklin...Harriet Tubman...Lewis and Clark.... Share their inspiring stories through these fact-based, original plays. Includes background information, discussion questions, extension activities, and literature links. For use with Grades 4-8.
Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006027767X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Poetry that makes us appreciate the magnitude of lives filled with courage, enthusiasm, inspiration. Lives: Poems About Famous Americans is the ideal introduction to sixteen American personalities who have changed the course of history. Favorite anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins has brought together the work of a number of accomplished writers and poets, among them Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, and X. J. Kennedy, to portray such figures as Sacagawea, Babe Ruth, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Leslie Staubs portraits contain a poetry of their own, capturing a bit of history in the glint of smile or the reach of a hand. Lives is a book for all readers to savor. Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council
Author: Aileen Wells Parks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439112339
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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A biography of the famous frontiersman and Congressman, focusing on his childhood.
Author: Connie Roop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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"A perfect introduction to some of the people who built, changed, and challenged our nation. Tales of famous Americans is sure to delight young readers"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Steven Skiena
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
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In this fascinating book, Steve Skiena and Charles Ward bring quantitative analysis to bear on ranking and comparing historical reputations by aggregating the traces of millions of opinions, just as Google ranks webpages. They present rankings of more than one thousand of history's most significant people in science, politics, entertainment, and all areas of human endeavor.
Author: Robert Burleigh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805043945
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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A collection of quotations along with the story behind the words and the people who voiced them.
Author: Susan Buckley
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780590967181
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Engaging mini-books help early readers build literacy as well as introduce them to Americans who made a difference: Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Squanto, Susan B. Anthony, Sally Ride, and 10 more!
Author: Herb Dunn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689831862
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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A biography emphasizing the childhood of the baseball legend.
Author: Montrew Dunham
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439113343
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Get to know the first African American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall in this middle grade nonfiction biography of his early years! The childhood of civil rights hero and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall comes to life in this engaging biography. Whenever Thurgood Marshall got into trouble at school, the principal would make him sit in the basement and read the US Constitution. By the time he was twelve, he had most of it memorized, and his interest in law had begun to take seed. In 1967, he was appointed to the US Supreme Court—the first African American to serve in that position. This book is laced with numerous illustrations, and the back of the book includes a timeline, questions, activities, and a glossary, making it the perfect addition to a classroom or home school setting. Perfect for emerging readers, the Childhood of Famous Americans series illustrates the incredible true stories of great Americans.
Author: Beatrice Gormley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689820259
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Traces the life of the author of the well-loved stories of the March sisters, "Little Women" and its sequels.
