Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
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What You Never Knew about Stephen Curry
$8.99 Read moreStephen Curry has wowed fans with his incredible basketball skills, including three NBA Championships. But what is his life like off the court? High-interest details and bold photos of her fascinating… [more below]
- Series: Behind the Scenes Biographies
- Author: Allen, Nafeesah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669049248
- Language: English
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She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
$20.95 Read moreNAACP Image Awards Winner – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
A timely, inspiring picture book biography of the dynamic twentieth-century educator, activist, and politi
- Author: Russell-Brown, Katheryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1620143461
- Language: English
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Who Is R. L. Stine?
$6.99 Add to cartReader beware! The biography of R. L. Stine, author of the hugely popular Goosebumps series, is a scary-good time!
R. L. Stine began writing stories at the age of nine, after finding a typewriter in- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Payne, M. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 039953959X
- Language: English
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Who Was Jim Henson?
$6.99 Read moreJim Henson broke into television with a five-minute puppetry segment when he was only a freshman in college. He created puppets like none ever seen before, with expressive fabric faces and rod-control… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Holub, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0448454068
- Language: English
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Pride and Persistence: Stories of Queer Activism
$22.95 Read moreEvery day, people face discrimination because of their sexuality and gender identity. The people between these pages have stood up for the queer community, whether on their own behalf or in support of
- Series: Do You Know My Name?
- Author: Fairhurst Breen, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 177260349X
- Language: English
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Stompin’ at the Savoy: How Chick Webb Became the King of Drums
$16.99 Read moreThough a disability stunted his growth and left him with a hunched back, William Henry “Chick” Webb did not let that get in the way of his musical pursuits. Even as a young child, Chick saw the world … [more below]
- Author: Donohue, Moira Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1534110976
- Language: English
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Teddy Roosevelt Was a Moose?
$16.95 Read moreDid you know that Theodore Roosevelt was shot before a rally, and went on to give his speech with the bullet in his chest? Or that he skinny-dipped in the Potomac River? Bet you didn’t know that he ha… [more below]
- Series: Wait! What?
- Author: Gutman, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324015640
- Language: English
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ADA Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine
$17.99 Read moreAda Lovelace, the daughter of the famous romantic poet, Lord Byron, develops her creativity through science and math. When she meets Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first mechanical computer, Ada
- Author: Wallmark, Laurie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1939547202
- Language: English
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Ruby, Head High: Ruby Bridge’s First Day of School
$19.99 Read moreInspired by an iconic Norman Rockwell painting and translated from an original French text, this is a story about the day a little girl held her head high and changed the world.
- Author: Cohen-Janca, Irene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1568463413
- Language: English
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Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift’s Chocolate Pilot
$11.99 Read moreOne WWII pilot’s mission to lift the spirits of children living in war-torn Berlin in 1945 comes to life in this moving middle-grade historical account. After World War II the United States and Britai… [more below]
- Author: Tunnell, Michael O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1580893376
- Language: English
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I Am Harriet Tubman
$9.99 Read moreHarriet Tubman’s heroic and pivotal role in the fight against slavery is the subject of the fourteenth picture book in this New York Times bestselling biography series. (Cover may vary)
This friendly,- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 059361917X
- Language: English
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The Sun Does Shine: An Innocent Man, a Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice
$19.99 Read moreA Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times, now adapted for younger readers, with a revise- Author: Hinton, Anthony Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1250817366
- Language: English
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DK Life Stories Queen Elizabeth II
$18.99 Read moreExplore the incredible life of Queen Elizabeth II in this children’s biography.
Discover the inspiring story of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, in this fascinating- Series: DK Life Stories
- Author: Williams, Brenda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0744089123
- Language: English
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A Mind Like Mine: 21 Famous People and Their Mental Health
$24.99 Read moreMind Like Mine is a stigma-busting collection of biographies of some of the great people from history who have lived with mental health conditions.
*2023 Notable Social Studies Trade Book* Did you k- Author: Davis, Rachael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0711274010
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #19: Abe Lincoln at Last
$7.99 Read moreThe #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better.
Track the- Series: Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #25
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0375870245
- Language: English
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What You Never Knew about Stephen Curry
$31.32 Read moreStephen Curry has wowed fans with his incredible basketball skills, including three NBA Championships. But what is his life like off the court? High-interest details and bold photos of her fascinating… [more below]
- Series: Behind the Scenes Biographies
- Author: Allen, Nafeesah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669049477
- Language: English
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What You Never Knew about Lionel Messi
$31.32 Read moreLionel Messi is a superstar soccer player. But what happens when he’s not scoring goals on the pitch? High-interest details and bold photos of his fascinating life will enthrall reluctant and struggli… [more below]
- Series: Behind the Scenes Biographies
- Author: Kerry, Isaac
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669003094
- Language: English
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Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner
$19.99 Add to cartThe story of Charles Henry Turner, the first Black entomologist — a scientist who studies bugs — is told in this fascinating book for young readers.
Can spiders learn? How do ants find their way hom- Author: Harrington, Janice N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1629795585
- Language: English
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Hispanic Star En Español: Sonia Sotomayor
$6.99 Add to cartLee sobre la magistrada de la Corte Suprema, Sonia Sotomayor, quien se encuentra entre los h?roes hispanos y latinos m?s innovadores e ic?nicos que han dado forma a nuestra cultura y al mundo en esta
- Series: Hispanic Star
- Author: Edelman, Claudia Romo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250840163
- Language: Spanish
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Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII
$10.99 Add to cartAuthor Marissa Moss and illustrator Yuko Shimizu’s Barbed Wire Baseball is a picture book about a true story set in a Japanese American internment camp in World War II.
A California Book Award Gold M- Author: Moss, Marissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1419720589
- Language: English
