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088584
African icons : ten people who shaped history by Baptiste, Tracey 

BTSB Prebound(Algonquin Young Readers, 2021)


Publication Date: 10/19/2021

BTSB #: 088584 Available

Dewey: 960.099/CAges: 10-14   
AR: 8.3 MG Lexile: 1160

Subjects: Africa - Biography Africa - Kings and rulers - Biography Africa - History


Summary: Presents stories of ten people-rulers, educators, inventors, scholars, and explorers-who helped shape the African continent and the world from ancient times through the tumultuous sixteenth century.


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Alexander von Humboldt : explorer, naturalist & environmental pioneer by Novgorodoff, Danica 

BTSB Prebound(Crown Books for Young Readers, 2022)


Publication Date: 02/22/2022

BTSB #: 683907 Available

Dewey: 509.2/BAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 760 F&P: Q

Subjects: Humboldt, Alexander von,|d1769-1859 Scientists - Biography Ecologists - Biography Explorers - Biography Germans - Biography


Summary: Whether sailing across the ocean, hiking through the jungle, or climbing the highest volcanic peaks, everywhere Alexander went, he observed the land, animals, and culture. And where others saw differences, Alexander spotted connections.


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604970
Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip by Marsh, Sarah Glenn 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2020)


Publication Date: 02/04/2020

BTSB #: 604970 Available

Dewey: 917.3/BAges: 4-8   


Subjects: Ramsey, Alice - Travel - United States Women automobile drivers - United States - Biography Automobile travel - United States - History|y20th century Overland journeys to the Pacific Gender role


Summary: The inspiring true story of Alice Ramsey, the first woman to drive a car across America in 1909.


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050030
All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world by Alexander, Lori 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019)


Publication Date: 08/06/2019

BTSB #: 050030 Available

Dewey: 579.092/BAges: 7-10   
AR: 5.8 MG RC: 5.7 3-5 Lexile: 890 F&P: X

Subjects: Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van,|d1632-1723 Microbiologists - Netherlands - Biography Biologists - Netherlands - Biography Microscopes - History Microbiology - History


Summary: This chapter book biography shows how a self-taught scientist was the first to observe the microbial life in and around us.


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806598
Amazing travels of Ibn Battuta by Sharaf al-Din, Fatimah 

BTSB Prebound(Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2014)


Publication Date: 11/17/2014

BTSB #: 806598 Available

Dewey: 900/BAges: 7-10   
Lexile: 960

Subjects: Batuta, Ibn,|d1304-1377 Travelers - Islamic Empire


Summary: The true story of a fourteenth-century traveler, whose journeys through the Islamic world and beyond were extraordinary for his time.


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962339
American gothic : the life of Grant Wood by Wood, Susan 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2017)


Publication Date: 09/05/2017

BTSB #: 962339 Available

Dewey: 759.13/BAges: 5-7   
AR: 5.3 LG RC: 8.4 3-5 Lexile: 990

Subjects: Wood, Grant,|d1891-1942 Artists


Summary: A picture book biography celebrating 20th century American artist Grant Wood and his most iconic work.


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231231
Anthology of amazing women by Lawrence, Sandra 

BTSB Prebound(Little Bee, 2017)


Publication Date: 02/13/2018

BTSB #: 231231 Available

Dewey: 920/CAges: 8-12   


Subjects: Women - Biography


Summary: From athletes to scientists, painters to politicians, fifty awe-inspiring women from the past and present.


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366032
Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures by Gansworth, Eric 

BTSB Prebound(Levine Querido, 2020)


Publication Date: 10/06/2020

BTSB #: 366032 Available

Dewey: 970.0049/AAges: 12-18   
AR: 7.6 UG

Subjects: Gansworth, Eric,|d1965- American authors Onondaga Indians Tuscarora Nation - Biography Free verse


Summary: The author tells his story--the story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Gansworth shatters the racial slur "Apple" and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.


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158032
Art is life : the life of artist Keith Haring by Brown, Tami Lewis 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2020)


Publication Date: 12/01/2020

BTSB #: 158032 Available

Dewey: 740/BAges: 4-7   


Subjects: Haring, Keith Artists - Biography Drawing Painters - Biography Art and popular culture


Summary: A picture book biography of Keith Haring who believed that art should be enjoyed by everyone.


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660463
Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird by Mortensen, Lori 

BTSB Prebound(Peachtree, 2019)


Publication Date: 03/15/2019

BTSB #: 660463 Available

Dewey: 910.4092/BAges: 6-10   
Lexile: 750 F&P: U

Subjects: Bird, Isabella L.|q(Isabella Lucy),|d1831-1904 Women travelers - Great Britain - Biography


Summary: This picture book biography takes us around the world with a daring nineteenth-century female explorer and author.


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088589
Because Claudette by Baptiste, Tracey 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2022)


Publication Date: 02/01/2022

BTSB #: 088589 Available

Dewey: 323.092/BAges: 6-8   
Lexile: 980 NC F&P: O

Subjects: Colvin, Claudette,|d1939- African American women - Alabama - Montgomery - Biography African Americans - Alabama - Montgomery - Biography Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956 Segregation in transportation - Alabama - Montgomery - History Montgomery (Ala.) - Biography Montgomery (Ala.) - Race relations - History|y20th century


Summary: A picture book biography about Claudette Colvin, the teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott, and a celebration of collective action.


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911366
Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A Wrinkle in Time by her granddaughters by Voiklis, Charlotte Jones 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018)


Publication Date: 02/15/2018

BTSB #: 911366 Available

Dewey: 813/BAges: 9-12   
AR: 7 MG RC: 10.3 6-8 Lexile: 1090

Subjects: L'Engle, Madeleine American authors


Summary: The story of Madeleine L'Engle, whose many works for children and adults are beloved around the world.


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Before she was Harriet by Cline-Ransome, Lesa 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2019)


Publication Date: 11/15/2017

BTSB #: 222880 Available

Dewey: 973.7115/BAges: 5-8   
AR: 4.5 LG Lexile: NP

Subjects: Tubman, Harriet,|d1820?-1913 Slaves African Americans - Biography African American women - Biography Underground Railroad


Summary: Poetry that celebrates the diverse accomplishments of Harriet Tubman as revealed by her many names.


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Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton by Rinker, Sherri Duskey 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)


Publication Date: 09/05/2017

BTSB #: 754758 Available

Dewey: 813/BAges: 4-7   
AR: 3.4 LG RC: 2.7 K-2 Lexile: 640 AD

Subjects: Burton, Virginia Lee,|d1909-1968 American authors Illustrators Children's stories - Authorship Illustration of books


Summary: A biography of one of the most beloved author/illustrators in children's literature.


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759437
Bluest of blues : Anna Atkins and the first book of photographs by Robinson, Fiona 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2019)


Publication Date: 02/15/2019

BTSB #: 759437 Available

Dewey: 580.92/BAges: 6-9   
AR: 5.2 LG RC: 5.3 3-5 Lexile: 800 F&P: U

Subjects: Atkins, Anna,|d1799-1871 Women botanists - England - Biography Women photographers - England - Biography


Summary: A picture book biography of botanist and photographer Anna Atkins-the first person to ever publish a book of photography.


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848342
Bowl full of peace : a true story by Stelson, Caren Barzelay 

BTSB Prebound(Carolrhoda, 2020)


Publication Date: 05/05/2020

BTSB #: 848342 Available

Dewey: 940.54/BAges: 6-8   
AR: 3.6 LG Lexile: 650

Subjects: Yasui, Sachiko Atomic bomb victims - Japan - Nagasaki-shi - Biography World War, 1939-1945 - Japan - Nagasaki-shi Nagasaki-shi (Japan) - History|yBombardment, 1945


Summary: Six-year-old Sachiko and her family suffered greatly after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and in the years that followed, the miraculous survival of a ceramic bowl became a key part of Sachiko's journey toward peace.


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634324
Brave ballerina : the story of Janet Collins [Who Did It First? Book]by Meadows, Michelle 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2019)


Publication Date: 01/18/2019

BTSB #: 634324 Available

Dewey: 792.802/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 3.3 LG Lexile: 570

Subjects: Collins, Janet,|d1917-2003 Ballet dancers - United States - Biography Ballerinas - United States - Biography African American dancers - Biography


Summary: A picture book tribute to Janet Collins, the first African American principal dancer at the Metropolitan Opera House.


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512011
Bread for words : a Frederick Douglass story by Keller, Shana 

BTSB Prebound(Sleeping Bear Press, 2020)


Publication Date: 01/15/2020

BTSB #: 512011 Available

Dewey: 973.8092/BAges: 5-8   
Lexile: 560

Subjects: Douglass, Frederick,|d1818-1895 - Childhood and youth Slaves - Maryland - Biography Books and reading - Maryland - History|y19th century Literacy - Maryland - History|y19th century English language - Writing Abolitionists - United States - Biography African American abolitionists - Biography


Summary: Frederick Douglass knew that learning to read and write would be the first step in his quest for freedom. Told from first-person perspective and using some of Douglass's own words, this biography draws from his experiences as a young boy and his attempts to learn how to read and write.


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875346
Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid by Tentler-Krylov, Victoria 

BTSB Prebound(Orchard Books, 2020)


Publication Date: 11/10/2020

BTSB #: 875346 Available

Dewey: 720/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 5.3 LG

Subjects: Hadid, Zaha Women architects - Biography Architecture Building


Summary: A picture book biography about British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, who was a pioneer in her field.


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924769
By and by : Charles Albert Tindley, the father of gospel music by Weatherford, Carole Boston 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2020)


Publication Date: 01/14/2020

BTSB #: 924769 Available

Dewey: 287/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 3.7 LG Lexile: 580

Subjects: Tindley, Charles Albert Methodist Church - Clergy - Biography Hymn writers - United States - Biography Gospel music - History and criticism


Summary: A picture book biography about gospel composer and preacher Charles Albert Tindley.


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