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By Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen. 2008
Biography of the British primatologist born in 1934 who has spent many years in Africa studying chimpanzees in the wild.…
Features her dedication to field research, her marriages, her family, the 1975 kidnapping of Jane's colleagues from Gombe, and her ongoing championing of chimpanzees. Some violence. For grades 6-9. 2008By Tonya Bolden. 2008
Biography of African American activist, poet, and scholar William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963). Discusses his earning a PhD from…
Harvard University and his commitment to racial equality, justice, and world peace in the context of segregation, the Jim Crow laws, and two world wars. For grades 6-9. 2008By Chris Crowe. 2008
Biography traces the career of the civil rights lawyer and first African American justice on the United States Supreme Court.…
Describes Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) growing up under segregation and winning the landmark 1954 desegregation case of Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. For grades 6-9. 2008By Russell Freedman. 2007
Contends that Columbus was among the last of foreign explorers to reach the Americas and was preceded by Chinese explorers,…
Vikings, and Irish monks. Examines archaeological and DNA evidence on the origins of Native Americans that challenges the Bering Strait land bridge theory. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2007By Susan Sales Harkins. 2007
Overview of the first English settlement in the New World. Describes the settlers' lack of preparation for the 1607 cross-Atlantic…
journey, illnesses, starvation, and interactions with Native Americans. Profiles historical figures and traces Jamestown's growth and disappearance in 1699, as residents moved to other towns. For grades 4-7. 2007Discusses Harriet Tubman's life (1820-1913), escape from slavery, heroic trips back into slave states to conduct others to freedom, and…
dangerous role as a spy for the Union during the Civil War. Explains her work in the context of the abolitionist movement. For grades 6-9. 2006By Nikki Giovanni. 2007
Poet explains traditional spirituals from the viewpoint of the original singers--Africans in bondage--and their children. Points out the songs' universal…
meanings and ways they illustrate the challenges of slaves dealing with their captivity. Includes complete lyrics for quoted spirituals. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2007By Russell Freedman. 2004
Recounts the life of African American singer Marian Anderson and her "once-in-a-hundred-years" voice. Describes her Philadelphia childhood, intense training, successful…
career in Europe, triumphant return to America, and setbacks caused by racial discrimination. Highlights Anderson's successful 1939 Lincoln Memorial performance for 75,000 fans. Newbery honor winner. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2004Describes the horrific events in Philadelphia in 1793 when citywide illness prevented Congress from convening. Thousands of people were dying,…
many unattended, and physicians of the time were unsure of the cause or treatment of the yellow-fever outbreak. For grades 6-9. 2003By Stephanie True Peters. 2005
A forty-year history of football's championship games and players. Highlights memorable plays, from the first Super Bowl in 1967 through…
the 2006 game. Discusses triumphs, defeats, and team stars. Includes lists of game results and teams with multiple wins. For grades 4-7. 2006By Eric Melvin Reed, Susanne George-Bloomfield. 2007
Twenty-six short western adventure stories originally published in two children's magazines, Youth's Companion and St. Nicholas, written between the 1890s…
and World War I. Includes "The Buffalo Hunt," "Our First Well in Nebraska," and "Sister Anne and the Cowboy," among others. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2007By Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler. 2006
A chronicle of explorer John Smith (1580-1631), who founded and led the Jamestown colony from 1607-1609. Uses Smith's writings, colonists'…
diaries, and archives to trace his adventures, including his arrival in the New World facing possible execution, and to demythologize his relationship with Pocahontas and portray wilderness life. 2006By National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance. 2008
Anthology of poems, presidential speeches, memoirs, and stories about the White House in Washington, D.C., from the time of its…
construction in 1801 through the residency of George W. Bush, 2001-2008. Introduction by historian David McCullough. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2008By Marfe Ferguson Delano. 2008
Covers the life of Annie Sullivan (1866-1936), which changed dramatically in 1887 when she met blind and deaf pupil seven-year-old…
Helen Keller. Examines their breakthrough in communication, rise to fame, financial difficulties, and constant mutual respect and devotion. For grades 4-7. 2008By Tonya Bolden. 2004
Biography of Maritcha Rémond Lyons (1848-1929), an African American girl who fought to attend the town's only high school--an all-white…
one. Describes her family and childhood in New York and Rhode Island before, during, and after the Civil War. Based on Lyons's memoir. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2005By Glenn Stout. 2005
Biography of the boxer who won the heavyweight world championship in 1964. Relates his subsequent conversion to the Nation of…
Islam and name change from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali. Discusses his career and reasons for retirement. For grades 4-7. 2005By James I. Robertson. 2005
In-depth biography of Confederate Civil War general. Chronicles Lee's family life, studies at West Point, military service in the Mexican…
War, and leadership of the Southern forces. Analyzes his decision to join Virginia's secession from the union and describes his life after the war. For senior high readers. 2005By Mark H. Bockenhauer. 2004
Presents concise geographic information on the U.S. states, organized by region: Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West. Describes each state's…
natural features, resources, and industries and lists statistics and historical events. For grades 4-7. 2004Teenagers Josh, who is black, and Davy, who is white, help on a cattle drive in 1877. The boys keep…
journals and send letters about their dangerous experiences along the way. Uncontracted braille. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2004By Russell Freedman. 1987
Biography of sixteenth U.S. president. Describes his rise from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois to become a…
self-educated lawyer, state representative, and, in 1860, president. Highlights Lincoln's Civil War leadership before his 1865 assassination. For grades 4-7 and older readers. Newbery Medal. 1987