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Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: Subjects: Wood, Grant,|d1891-1942 Artists Summary: A picture book biography celebrating 20th century American artist Grant Wood and his most iconic work. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: Subjects: Women - Biography Summary: From athletes to scientists, painters to politicians, fifty awe-inspiring women from the past and present. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: Subjects: Darwin, Charles,|d1809-1882 Summary: An accessible account of the life of Charles Darwin, author of "The Origin of the Species." Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- 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 Genres: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- * Your Discounted Price You can't see me! I am INVISIBLE! 155 total titles found Page 1 of 8 View page of 8 1 2 3 1 each from this page1 each from all results You are viewing: 2025 Warehouse Sale - BiographiesSort By Age Sort By Author Sort By Availability Sort By Dewey Sort By Media, Author, Title Sort By Price Sort By Pub. 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