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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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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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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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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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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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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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406101
Cezanne's parrot by Guglielmo, Amy 

BTSB Prebound(Putnam, 2020)


Publication Date: 02/11/2020

BTSB #: 406101 Available

Dewey: 759/BAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 800 AD F&P: P

Subjects: Cezanne, Paul,|d1839-1906 Artists French painting Parrots France - History|y19th century


Summary: Paul Cezanne longs to be a great painter, but even with the advice of his friends Monet and Pissarro, no one, not even his parrot, is impressed with his work.


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305503
Charles Darwin and the mystery of mysteries by Eldredge, Niles 

BTSB Prebound(Roaring Brook Press, 2010)


Publication Date: 05/15/2010

BTSB #: 305503 Available

Dewey: 576/BAges: 9-14   
AR: 8.3 MG F&P: Z

Subjects: Darwin, Charles,|d1809-1882


Summary: An accessible account of the life of Charles Darwin, author of "The Origin of the Species."


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326338
Charlotte Bronte before Jane Eyre by Fawkes, Glynnis 

BTSB Prebound(Disney/Hyperion, 2019)


Publication Date: 09/24/2019

BTSB #: 326338 Available

Dewey: 823/BAges: 10-14   


Subjects: Bronte, Charlotte,|d1816-1855 - Childhood and youth English women novelists|y19th century - Biography English novelists|y19th century - Biography Biographical comic books, strips, etc


Summary: A graphic novel biography of Charlotte Bronte, following her and her siblings from childhood to the publication of Jane Eyre.


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Clarence's big secret by MacGregor Cation, Christine 

BTSB Prebound(Owlkids, 2020)


Publication Date: 03/15/2020

BTSB #: 593940 Available

Dewey: 305.5/BAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 650

Subjects: Brazier, Clarence,|d1906-2012 Illiterate persons - Canada - Biography Literacy - Canada Family life


Summary: Clarence Brazier kept a big secret for nearly one hundred years: he didn't know how to read. The true story of his journey to literacy with the help of one of his daughters.


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683896
Cloth lullaby : the woven life of Louise Bourgeois by Novesky, Amy 

BTSB Prebound(Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2016)


Publication Date: 05/15/2016

BTSB #: 683896 Available

Dewey: 730.92/BAges: 5-7   
AR: 5.7 LG RC: 7.5 3-5 Lexile: 1000 AD

Subjects: Bourgeois, Louise,|d1911-2010 Bourgeois, Louise,|d1911-2010 - Themes, motives


Summary: A picture book biography that examines the childhood of sculptor Louise Bourgeois and the experiences that inspired her work.


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881429
Compton cowboys : and the fight to save their horse ranch by Thompson-Hernandez, Walter 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2020)


Publication Date: 03/31/2020

BTSB #: 881429 Available

Dewey: 978/CAges: 8-12   


Subjects: Horsemanship - Biography African Americans - Biography Ranches - California Compton (Calif.)


Summary: A true account about ten young black men and one woman from Compton, California, who found rescue and purpose through horseback riding.


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246005
Cyrus Field's big dream : the daring effort to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable by Cowan, Mary Morton 

BTSB Prebound(Calkins Creek, 2018)


Publication Date: 09/11/2018

BTSB #: 246005 Available

Dewey: 384.1/BAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.2 MG RC: 8.3 6-8 Lexile: 980 F&P: Y

Subjects: Field, Cyrus W.|q(Cyrus West),|d1819-1892 Telegraph United States - History|y19th century


Summary: Explores the extraordinary achievement of Cyrus Field and one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century: laying a transatlantic telegraph cable to create instant communication between two continents.


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534234
Dr. Jo : how Sara Josephine Baker saved the lives of America's children by Kulling, Monica 

BTSB Prebound(Tundra, 2018)


Publication Date: 10/09/2018

BTSB #: 534234 Available

Dewey: 610.92/BAges: 5-8   


Subjects: Baker, S. Josephine|q(Sara Josephine),|d1873-1945 Women physicians


Summary: The story of an early female doctor who worked in Hell's Kitchen, one of New York's poorest neighborhoods.


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