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Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Martin Luther King's widow, from her childhood in rural Alabama to her crusade to keep her husband's message of peace and equality alive after his murder in 1968.
Author
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories of three families who were helped by the work of Mary Breckinridge, the first nurse to go into the Appalachian Mountains and give medical care to the isolated inhabitants. Includes an afterword with facts about Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Service she founded.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
124 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author separates truth from legend, and offers some ideas on what eventually happened to the strong and fascinating woman known to history as Sacagawea--the native American who made it possible for Lewis and Clark to explore America's then-uncharted West.
44) Sacagawea
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Shoshone girl, Sacagawea, from age eleven when she was kidnapped by the Hitdatsa to the end of her journey with Lewis and Clark, plus speculation about her later life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the slave who won her freedom in a California courtroom, became a nurse, and bought a house that she used to help people in need.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles, through her own reminiscences, letters, speeches, and stories, the experiences of the Yankton Indian woman whose life spanned the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.
49) Beatrix Potter
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
37 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.
52) My own two feet
Author
Language
English
Description
Follows the popular children's author through college years during the Depression; jobs including that of librarian; marriage; and writing and publication of her first book, "Henry Huggins."
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"...Introduces the youngest readers to Sacagawea--the 15-year-old American Indian who led the Lewis and Clark Expedition into the wilderness of the western United States."--Page 4 of cover.
55) Sacagawea
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
56) Mae Jemison
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Mae Jemison, the first female African American astronaut.
Author
Publisher
Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Althea Gibson was the quickest, tallest, most fearless athlete in 1940s Harlem. She couldn't sit still! When she put her mind to it, the fleet-of-foot girl reigned supreme at every sport--stickball with the boys, basketball with the girls, paddle tennis with anyone who would hit with her. But being the quickest, tallest, most fearless player in Harlem wasn't enough for Althea. She knew she could be a tennis champion. Because of segregation, black...
58) Dorothea Lange
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1994]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
59) Oprah Winfrey
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
60) Betty Doll
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography about Patricia Polacco's mother and a small handmade doll named Betty Doll.
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