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Year Sort by Relevance,Author Sort by Relevance,Title Sort By Stoplight Sort By Title Sort by Language Display 10 items Display 15 items Display 20 items Display 25 items Display 30 items Display 35 items Display 40 items Display 45 items Display 50 items 1 each from this page1 each from all results 23 total titles found Page 1 of 2 View page of 2 1 2 Simply add a title by clicking the . * Your Discounted Price Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : political headliner [Gateway biographies]by Leigh, Anna BTSB Prebound(Lerner, 2020)Publication Date: 01/01/2020 BTSB #: 559068 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 9-14 AR: 6.8 MG Lexile: 1000 Genres: Subjects: Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria,|d1989- United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography Women legislators - United States - Biography Legislators - United States - Biography Summary: American politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever to serve in the US Congress. Learn about the most fascinating details of her life and her career in the House of Representatives. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 27.28 * 0.00 +- Deb Haaland [She Persisted]by Goodluck, Laurel Paperback(Philomel, 2023)Publication Date: 10/03/2023 BTSB #: 385842 Temp OS Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 6-9 AR: 6.6 LG Lexile: 1050 F&P: R Genres: Subjects: Haaland, Debra A.,|d1960- United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography Women legislators - United States - Biography Native American legislators - United States - Biography Cabinet officers - United States - Biography Women cabinet officers - United States - Biography Pueblo women - Biography New Mexico - Biography Summary: As a child of two military parents, Deb Haaland moved around a lot when she was young before finally settling in Albuquerque to be near family. But she persisted, studying hard and eventually earning a law degree. Learn about the amazing life of Deb Haaland--and how she persisted. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 5.73 * 0.00 +- Deb Haaland [My Itty-Bitty Bio]by Thiele, June BTSB Prebound(Cherry Lake, 2022)Publication Date: 01/01/2022 BTSB #: 878910 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 4-7 AR: 1.8 LG Lexile: 460 Genres: Subjects: Haaland, Debra A.,|d1960- United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography Women legislators - United States - Biography Native American legislators - United States - Biography Legislators - United States - Biography Pueblo women - Biography Pueblo Indians - Biography New Mexico - Biography Summary: Examines the life of Deb Haaland, the first confirmed Native American Cabinet secretary. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 24.46 * 0.00 +- Faith of Elijah Cummings : the north star of equal justice by Weatherford, Carole Boston BTSB Prebound(Random House Studio, 2021)Publication Date: 01/11/2022 BTSB #: 924763 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 6-8 Lexile: 850 F&P: S Genres: Subjects: Cummings, Elijah United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography African American legislators - Maryland - Biography African American civil rights workers - Biography Summary: A picture book biography of Elijah Cummings, outlining major events in his childhood, career and fight for justice. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.08 * 0.00 +- Fall down seven times, stand up eight : Patsy Takemoto Mink and the fight for Title IX by Bryant, Jen BTSB Prebound(Quill Tree Books, 2022)Publication Date: 01/01/2022 BTSB #: 164400 Available Dewey: 328/BAges: 4-8 Genres: Subjects: Mink, Patsy T.,|d1927-2002 United States.|tEducation Amendments of 1972.|pTitle IX United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography Japanese Americans - Biography Women legislators - Biography Women's rights Equality Summary: Explores the life of Patsy Mink, the first BIPOC woman--and first Asian American woman--elected to Congress who helped create Title IX, the law that requires federally funded schools to treat boys and girls equally. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.08 * 0.00 +- Fenomenal AOC : las raices y el ascenso de Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Denise, Anika Aldamuy PaperbackSPANISH(HarperCollins Espanol, 2023)Publication Date: 01/02/2024 BTSB #: 273512 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 4-8 Genres: Subjects: Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria,|d1989- United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography Spanish language - Reading materials Women legislators - United States - Biography Summary: A picture book biography about America's youngest congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In Spanish. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 8.19 * 0.00 +- Fenomenal AOC : las raices y el ascenso de Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Denise, Anika Aldamuy BTSB PreboundSPANISH(HarperCollins Espanol, 2023)Publication Date: 01/02/2024 BTSB #: 273518 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 4-8 Genres: Subjects: Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria,|d1989- United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography Spanish language - Reading materials Women legislators - United States - Biography Summary: A picture book biography about America's youngest congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In Spanish. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 17.29 * 0.00 +- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope by Meacham, Jon Paperback(Random House, 2021)Publication Date: 09/07/2021 BTSB #: 633877 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 14-18 Genres: Subjects: Lewis, John,|d1940-2020 United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography African American civil rights workers - Biography Civil rights workers - United States - Biography Legislators - United States - Biography Protest movements - United States Summary: An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 15.57 * 0.00 +- John Lewis [Ready-To-Read. Level Three]by Patrick, Denise Lewis Paperback(Simon Spotlight, 2021)Publication Date: 12/14/2021 BTSB #: 703536 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 6-8 Genres: Subjects: Lewis, John,|d1940-2020 United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography Civil rights workers - United States - Biography Civil rights movements - Southern States - History|y20th century African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States - History|y20th century Legislators - United States - Biography African American legislators - Biography Summary: From the time John Lewis asked Dr. Martin Luther King to help integrate a segregated school in his hometown as a teenager, he never stopped organizing, from Freedom Rides, to the marches in Selma and Washington, and more. He believed in getting into "good trouble" for good causes, and became a civil rights activist and United States Representative. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 4.09 * 0.00 +- John Lewis [Ready-To-Read. Level Three]by Patrick, Denise Lewis BTSB Prebound(Simon Spotlight, 2021)Publication Date: 12/14/2021 BTSB #: 703538 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 6-8 Genres: Subjects: Lewis, John,|d1940-2020 United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography Civil rights workers - United States - Biography Civil rights movements - Southern States - History|y20th century African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States - History|y20th century Legislators - United States - Biography African American legislators - Biography Summary: From the time John Lewis asked Dr. Martin Luther King to help integrate a segregated school in his hometown as a teenager, he never stopped organizing, from Freedom Rides, to the marches in Selma and Washington, and more. He believed in getting into "good trouble" for good causes, and became a civil rights activist and United States Representative. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 15.04 * 0.00 +- Loud and proud : the life of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm by Cline-Ransome, Lesa BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2023)Publication Date: 10/11/2023 BTSB #: 222912 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 4-8 Genres: Subjects: Chisholm, Shirley,|d1924-2005 United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography African American legislators - Biography Women legislators - United States - Biography Legislators - United States - Biography African American presidential candidates - Biography Women presidential candidates - United States - Biography Presidential candidates - United States - Biography Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Biography New York (N.Y.) - Biography Summary: Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) is a hero and trailblazer. She was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972). Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.78 * 0.00 +- Not done yet : Shirley Chisholm's fight for change by Brown, Tameka Fryer BTSB Prebound(Millbrook Press, 2022)Publication Date: 11/01/2022 BTSB #: 158126 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 5-9 Lexile: 590 Genres: Subjects: Chisholm, Shirley,|d1924-2005 United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography African American legislators - Biography Women legislators - United States - Biography Legislators - United States - Biography African American presidential candidates - Biography Women presidential candidates - United States - Biography Presidential candidates - United States - Biography Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - Biography New York (N.Y.) - Biography Summary: Stirring free verse chronicles Shirley Chisholm's fight for fairness and change on her journey to becoming the first Black woman ever elected to Congress and, in 1972, the first woman to seriously run for president. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 24.48 * 0.00 +- Patsy Mink [She Persisted]by Keller, Tae BTSB Prebound(Philomel, 2022)Publication Date: 05/03/2022 BTSB #: 512063 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 6-9 F&P: T Genres: Subjects: Mink, Patsy T.,|d1927-2002 United States.|tEducation Amendments of 1972.|pTitle IX United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography Japanese Americans - Biography Women legislators - Biography Summary: When Patsy Mink won her seat in the House of Representatives as a Democrat from Hawaii, she became the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman elected to Congress. A co-author of the Title XI amendment of the Higher Education Act, she was a champion of rights for women, children, immigrants, and minorities throughout her twenty-four years in Congress. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 20.98 * 0.00 +- Phenomenal AOC : the roots and rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Denise, Anika Aldamuy BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2022)Publication Date: 08/10/2022 BTSB #: 273586 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 4-8 AR: 5.1 LG Genres: Subjects: Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria,|d1989- United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography Women legislators - United States - Biography Summary: A biography about America's youngest congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.78 * 0.00 +- Que haces con una voz asi? : la historia de la extraordinaria Congresista Barbara Jordan by Barton, Chris PaperbackSPANISH(Beach Lane Books, 2021)Publication Date: 07/13/2021 BTSB #: 095066 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 6-9 AR: 4.5 LG Genres: Subjects: Jordan, Barbara,|d1936-1996 United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography Legislators - United States - Biography African American women legislators - Biography African American women legislators - Texas - Biography Spanish language - Reading materials Texas - Politics and government|y1951- Summary: A picture book on lawyer, politician, and civil rights leader Barbara Jordan. In Spanish. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.55 * 0.00 +- Robert Smalls [Tales Of The Talented Tenth Volume: 3]by Gill, Joel Christian Paperback(Chicago Review Press, 2021)Publication Date: 05/03/2021 BTSB #: 379362 Available Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 12-16 Lexile: 290 HL Genres: Subjects: Smalls, Robert,|d1839-1915 - Comic books, strips, etc Planter (Steamship) United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography African Americans - South Carolina - Biography Slaves - South Carolina - Biography Ship captains - United States - Biography United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Biography Beaufort (S.C.) - Biography Summary: Tells the true story of the enslaved African who pulled off one of the most daring and largest heists of the Civil War. Come along for the adventure as Robert earns a job working for the C.S.S. Planter, escapes to freedom, goes on to become a first-generation Black politician, and makes history by writing and leading the passage of legislation that led to the United States' first free and compulsory public school system. In graphic novel format. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 19.64 * 0.00 +- Shirley Chisholm dared : the story of the first black woman in Congress by Williams, Alicia R. BTSB Prebound(Anne Schwartz Books, 2021)Publication Date: 06/01/2021 BTSB #: 951944 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 4-8 AR: 4.4 LG Lexile: 770 AD F&P: O Genres: Subjects: Chisholm, Shirley,|d1924-2005 United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography African Americans - Biography Legislators - United States - Biography Presidential candidates - United States - Biography Teachers - United States - Biography Summary: An inspiring picture book biography about Shirley Chisholm. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.08 * 0.00 +- Shirley Chisholm is a verb! by Chambers, Veronica BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2020)Publication Date: 07/28/2020 BTSB #: 205494 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 4-8 AR: 5.1 LG F&P: R Genres: Subjects: Chisholm, Shirley,|d1924-2005 - Biography United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography African American women - Biography Legislators - United States - Biography Presidential candidates - United States - Biography Teachers - United States - Biography Summary: A picture book biography celebrating the life and contributions of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman in Congress, who sought the Democratic nomination to be the president of the United States. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.78 * 0.00 +- Slave who went to Congress by Rosner, Marti BTSB Prebound(NewSouth Books, 2020)Publication Date: 02/15/2020 BTSB #: 363842 Available Dewey: 328.73/BAges: 7-8 Genres: Subjects: Turner, Benjamin Sterling,|d1825-1894 United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography African American politicians - Alabama - Biography Legislators - United States - Biography Slaves - Alabama - Biography Alabama - Politics and government|y19th century Summary: A biography of Benjamin Turner, who spent the first 40 years of his life as a slave, but in 1870 was elected to the U.S. Congress. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 6.50 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide We're better than this : my fight for the future of our democracy by Cummings, Elijah BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2021)Publication Date: 09/01/2021 BTSB #: 252397 Available Dewey: 328/AAges: 8-12 Genres: Subjects: Cummings, Elijah United States.|bCongress.|bHouse - Biography Legislators - United States - Biography African Americans - Biography Race relations Summary: Takes kids on a journey through the highs and lows of Congressman Elijah Cumming's trailblazing life, from his formative years as the son of former sharecroppers all the way through his time working in Congress during the Trump Administration. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.38 * 0.00 +- * Your Discounted Price You can't see me! 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