Biography & Autobiography - Historical
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Unbroken: An Olympian’s Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive
$14.99 Add to cartIn this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian’s courage, cunning, and forti
- Author: Hillenbrand, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25, 2017
- ISBN10: 0385742525
- Language: English
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Honor
$19.99 Read moreTold from dual perspectives, this remarkable true story for YA readers recounts the tale of two individuals–a Ukrainian teen in the early 2010s and a Jewish boy in hiding during WWII–whose lives are… [more below]
- Author: McClelland, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1662621086
- Language: English
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
$15.99 Read moreIn a riveting biography that reads like a crime novel, Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti uncovers the true story of Mary Mallon, a.k.a. Typhoid Mary, one of the most m
- Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0063295962
- Language: English
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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
$25.99 Read moreA 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist
National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role play… [more below]- Author: Anderson, M. T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0763668184
- Language: English
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
$18.99 Read moreIn a riveting biography that reads like a crime novel, Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti uncovers the true story of Mary Mallon, a.k.a. Typhoid Mary, one of the most m
- Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0544313674
- Language: English
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Socrates: A Life Worth Living
$19.95 Read moreA lively and accessible introduction to the quintessential philosopher, and the civilized world’s first enemy of the state.
Named a Best Teen & YA Nonfiction title of 2022 by Kirkus Reviews Socrates:- Series: Philosophy for Young People
- Author: Lehmann, Devra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 164421136X
- Language: English
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I Wanted to Be a Pilot: The Making of a Tuskegee Airman
$18.95 Add to cartSometimes history is made by a dyslexic, mischievous boy who hates school, is a descendant of one of Frederick Douglass’ half-sisters, and whose Pops was a Buffalo Soldier. In I Wanted to be a Pilot,
- Author: Macon, Franklin J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1683509609
- Language: English
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A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (National Book Award Winner)
$14.99 Read moreAn ALA Notable Book and winner of the National Book Award for Children’s Books, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s A Day of Pleasure shares his memories as a boy growing up in Warsaw, Poland prior to World War I
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0374416966
- Language: English
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Little Jade: Memoir of a Young Eurasian Immigrant
$17.99 Add to cartKatherine Haas came to the United States on a ship, at the young age of eleven. The next few decades unfolded a lifetime of adventure as this young Chinese-German woman navigated identity, culture, an
- Author: Haas, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990856905
- Language: English
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La antigua Grecia: GuÃa de los dioses, diosas, deidades, titanes y héroes griegos clásicos: Zeus, Poseidón, Apolo y otros (Libro para jóv
$13.99 Add to cartConoce a los antiguos dioses griegos – MitologÃa para mayores de 12 años.
Bienvenido a la serie MitologÃa cautivadora. Este libro presenta a los dioses, diosas, deidades, titanes y otras criaturas m
- Series: MitologÃa Cautivadora #2
- Author: Student Press Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: July 31 2021
- ISBN10: 9493258408
- Language: Spanish
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Unbroken (the Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian’s Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive
$21.99 Add to cartIn this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian’s courage, cunning, and forti… [more below]
- Author: Hillenbrand, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0385742517
- Language: English
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Galileo and the Magic Numbers
$23.33 Add to cartSixteenth century Italy produced a genius who marked the world with his studies and hypotheses about mathematical, physical and astronomical truths. His father, musician Vincenzio Galilei said, “Truth
- Author: Rosen, Sidney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1504068874
- Language: English
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Running for Shelter: A True Story
$14.95 Add to cartVienna, late 1930s. Curious, red-headed Inge Eisenger leads a privileged life with her glamorous, distant mother. When forced to flee from Nazi-occupied Austria to Switzerland, Inge sees her young lif
- Series: Holocaust Books for Young Adults
- Author: Sheft, Suzette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: November 09 2022
- ISBN10: 9493276503
- Language: English
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Saint José: Boy Cristero Martyr
$12.95 Read moreThis new title in the acclaimed Vision Books lives of the saints series for youth 9-15 yrs. brings to life the inspirational story of St. Jos? S?nchez del R?o, a 14 yr. old boy in Mexico who died a ma
- Series: Vision Books
- Author: McKenzie, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1621642429
- Language: English
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Devotion (Young Readers Edition): An Epic Story of Heroism and Friendship
$12.99 Add to cartA young adult adaptation of the national bestseller that details the true story of two Navy pilots from divergent racial and economic backgrounds who forge a deep friendship during the Korean War as t… [more below]
- Author: Makos, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0593481488
- Language: English
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
$12.99 Add to cart“No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful.”–School Library Journal, starred
I did not ask myself, “Should I do this?” but “How will I do t- Author: Opdyke, Irene Gut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0553538845
- Language: English
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Newbery Honor Book; National Book Award Winner)
$14.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER AND NEWBERY HONOR BOOK ● Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Read the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights fi
- Author: Hoose, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0312661053
- Language: English
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Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
$9.99 Add to cartA classic and highly acclaimed biography of civil rights activist Malcolm X, ever more relevant for today’s readers.
As a 14-year-old he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1338309854
- Language: English
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Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself
$18.99 Add to cartMillions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is perh
- Author: Edinger, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1728464072
- Language: English
