A biography of the African American civil rights worker who was born a slave and worked throughout his adult life to end slavery.
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Teenage immigrants from various countries recount the emotional experience of fleeing their homelands and adjusting to a new life in the United States.
I remember that as a young boy I used to look in the mirror and I would curse my color, my blackness. But in those days they didn't call you "black." They didnt say "minority." They called us "colored" or "nigger." Leon Tillage grew up the son of a sharecropper in a small town in North Carolina. Told in vignettes, this is his story about walking four miles to the school for black children, a…
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…
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 …
As with all WILD LIVES titles, the book will take the form of a diary and contain an exciting combination of action, humour and lots of animal facts. DIVING WITH DOLPHINS is set in Shark Bay, Western Australia and will cover four months in the life of a young bottlenose dolphin. Topics covered will include dolphin communication skills and the relationship between humans and dolphins. Animals ca…
A biography of Betsy Ross as a girl, before she ran her own upholstery shop and made American flags.
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.
The life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind.
From the foreword by Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu: "How extraordinary that this humble suitcase has enabled children all over the world to learn through Hana's story the terrible history of what happened and that it continues to urge them to heed the warnings of history."