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Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who created the dot system of reading and writing that is now used by the blind throughout the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the first person, man or woman, to fly alone across the Atlantic nonstop from England to North America, from her childhood in Africa to her record-setting flight.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of a determined woman, who was born in Tennessee, educated in Ohio, and lived in Washington, D.C., where she worked to gain equal rights for herself and other African Americans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of the well-known novelist from his childhood in Nantes, France, to his career as a successful fiction writer whose imaginative works often gave glimpses into the future.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of eighteenth-century Austrian composer, Mozart, a musical prodigy who learned to write music before he could write letters and grew up to become Imperial Court Composer to Emperor Joseph.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces Thomas Paine, whose interest in politics and adventure led him from England to the American colonies where the articles and pamphlets he wrote helped generate support for the Revolution.
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