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So you want to be president?
This new version of the Caldecott-winning classic by illustrator David Small and author Judith St. George is updated with current facts and new illustrations to include our forty-second president, George W. Bush. There are now three Georges in the catalog of presidential names, a Bush alongside the presidential family tree, and a new face on the endpaper portraiture. Hilariously illustrated by…
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- 0439252865
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- 52 pages : illustration ; 28 cm
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- 973 ST
El Chino
May, at least in my part of the world is Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, which I plan to read one children's book, particularly a biography, which pertains to the subject everyday this month. Therefore, I thought that this book would be apropos for today. The text is rather simplistic, straightforward, and informative. Say's text renders Billy's complex story with simplic…
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- 9780395778753
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- 32 pages : illustration : 26 cm
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- 927 SAY
Teammates
This is the moving story of how Jackie Robinson became the first black player on a Major League baseball team when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s, and how on a fateful day in Cincinnati, Pee Wee Reese took a stand and declared Jackie his teammate. Illustrated with a blend of historic photographs and eloquent watercolors by Paul Bacon.
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- 0590366696
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- 32 pages : illustration : 21 cm
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- 927 GOL
Abraham Lincoln
With a down-home, folksy flavor, Amy L. Cohn and Suzy Schmidt have written an unusual biography of Abe Lincoln that is sure to become a perennial classic. In their first collaboration as storytellers since FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA, Amy L. Cohn and Suzy Schmidt tell Lincoln's story from his birth to his untimely death. Begining with his humble start in a log cabin in Kentucky, the authors take…
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- 0439477166
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- 40 pages : illustration ; 28 cm
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- 923 LIN
Frederick Douglass : a voice for freedom in the 1800s
A biography of the African American civil rights worker who was born a slave and worked throughout his adult life to end slavery.
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- 0439380820
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- 90 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- Scholastic Biography
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- 920 DOU
Dear Dr. Bell..... your friend, Helen Keller
Helen Keller was only six years old when she met Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. The meeting was an eventful one,marking the beginning of a lifelong friendship. It was Bell who guided Helen's parents to a teacher and helped Helen adjust to an extremely public life. "You can do anything you think you can," wrote Dr. Bell to Helen. "Remember that many will be brave in yo…
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- 0590486780
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- 95 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- 920 KEL
Sojourner Truth
This unique biography of Sojourner Truth tells the exciting story of her life using personal recollections, as well as letters and articles written by those who knew her. "I am pleading for the mothers, Who gaze in wild despair, Upon the hated auction-block, And see their children there." With these words Sojourner Truth sang about the pain that women slaves felt when their children were …
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- 0439263239
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- 128 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- In Their Own Words
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- 920 TRU
Sew what, Betsy Ross?
A biography of Betsy Ross as a girl, before she ran her own upholstery shop and made American flags.
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- 0439439256
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- 57 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- Before I Made History
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- 923 ROS
Thomas Edison : the wizard inventor
More than any other individual, Edison was responsible for introducing the modern age of electricity. But as well as pioneering the first commercial electric light and power system, he also invented the phonograph, the microphone, and an early movie camera. His gripping story is one of determination and triumph.
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- 0199101957
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- 31 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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- What's Their Story?
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- 926 EDI
Orphan train rider : one boy's true story
Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes. Some were adopted by loving families; others were not as fortunate. In recent years, some of the riders have begun to share their stories. Andrea Warren alternates chapters about the history of the orphan trains with the story of Lee Nailling, who in 1926 rode an orphan tra…
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- 0590115278
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- 80 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- 920 WAR
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