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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
My first book of biographies	Jean Marzollo	Highlights the contributions in various fields of endeavor of famous men and women from around the world, including Marie Curie, Abraham Lincoln, Rachel Carson, Hokusai, and Martin Luther King.	OL14856105W
Angel girl	Laurie B. Friedman	Herman lives in a labor camp. It is World War II, and the Nazis have made him a prisoner. He is forced to work long hours. His only food is soup made of water. Soon he loses the will to go on. Then s…	OL15053572W
Erwin J.E. Rommel	Earle Rice	Describes the life and career of Erwin Rommel, field marshal under Hitler during World War II, who is particularly remembered for his role in the campaign in northern Africa.	OL15080519W
A Girl From Yamhill	Beverly Cleary	Generations of children have grown up with Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and all of their friends, families, and assorted pets. For everyone who has enjoyed the pranks and schemes, embarrassing momen…	OL151977W
30 biography book reports	Deborah Rovin-Murphy	Ready-to-use reproducible pages help the kids create their own book reports in a variety of formats such as diary entries, newspaper articles, scrapbooks, and many more.	OL15829045W
Pope Francis	Stephanie Watson	"On March 19, 2013, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina became Pope Francis, the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. His election to the papacy was notable in many ways. He became the first po…	OL17879585W
Famous Americans	Mela Ottaiano	Help build students' reading fluency and build awareness of important people in U.S. history through fact-based, original plays about 22 famous Americans. These read-aloud biographical plays provide …	OL18650370W
Real kids, real stories, real change	Garth Sundem	Thirty true stories profile kids from around the world who used their heads, their hearts, their courage, and sometimes their stubbornness to help others and do extraordinary things.	OL18682503W
William Shakespeare	Haydn Middleton	Presents the life of the famous English playwright and discusses some of his notable works.	OL19222727W
Peace warriors	Andrea Davis Pinkney	Profiles six men and women who have embraced peaceful solutions to violent conflicts. Includes a timeline and glossary. This book features six men and women who have worked passionately to pioneer p…	OL19971473W
10 people that changed the world	Ben Hubbard	''Spanning both ancient and modern history, this book looks at 10 of the most world-changing personalities. It tells the stories behind each of them, offers fascinating facts and examines what effect…	OL20948163W
12 business leaders who changed the world	Matthew McCabe	Showcases the work and achievements of 12 of the worlds most influential business leaders. Each spread contains fascinating facts about each business leader and how their accomplishments helped chang…	OL24245965W
To Fly	Wendie C. Old	Traces the work that the two Wright brothers did together to develop the first machine-powered aircraft.	OL2639043W
Heroes for All Times : A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #23	Natalie Pope Boyce,Mary Pope Osborne,Sal Murdocca	Jack and Annie learn amazing facts about six history-changing individuals, including Susan B. Anthony, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Muir, Florence Nightingale ,and Harriet Tubman. J…	OL26781677W
Main street was two blocks long	Noreen Murphey Hokett	"The lights on Main Street have become candles lighting the lanes of my childhood memories, those incidents that shaped my life and made me who I am." by Norene Murphey Hokett, page 191.	OL3938343W
I, Charlotte Forten, Black and free	Polly Longsworth	A biography of the black woman from a prosperous Philadelphia family who devoted herself to educating newly freed slaves after the Civil War.	OL463893W
But who on earth was?	Eileen Hellicar	Biographical sketches of Casanova, Uncle Sam, Mona Lisa, and more than 100 other historical personages whose names may be better known than the facts of their lives.	OL5412900W
The journey of Columbus	Lilly, Melinda.	Briefly presents Christopher Columbus's 1492 journey from Spain into the unknown.	OL57922W
Nelson Mandela	Lenny Hort,Laaren Brown	A biography of the first black South African president, who spent twenty-seven years in jail for his political beliefs, discusses the struggle to end apartheid, his country's former system of racial …	OL8480201W
Isaac Newton	Kathleen Krull	Here is a man with an imagination so large that just “by thinking on it,” he invented calculus and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity. Kathleen Krull presents a portrait of Isaac Newto…	OL97656W